08-16-2017, 10:43 PM
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This update discusses the Universal Music Group (UMG) sued MySpace for copyright infringement of its artists. UMG also damages in the amount of $ 1.50, 000000 for each unauthorized music or videos posted on this site. MySpace claim that litigation files was unhappy and the fine imposed was unfair. However, analysts believed that the protection of the law requests MySpace Digital Millenium Copyright, which will release it from copyright infringement lawsuits.
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November 17, 2006 year, Universal Music Group (UMG), a leading music publishing and recording company has sued MySpace, the popular social networking site in the United States, for copyright infringement of its artists. the claim in United States District Court for the Central District of California, alleges that MySpace has helped its users download music videos and had participated in the violation of reformatting video, so that they could be distributed to other users. UMG further claimed that most of the content hosted on MySpace was not "user generated" and was copied from the content owners. Commenting on this, UMG said, "the basis of MySpace is the so-called" user generated content ". However, most of this content is not "users" at all. Rather, it is "user-stolen" intellectual property of others, and MySpace is a partner, prepared this theft. "
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