First it was Napster, now MySpace
 

Universal Music Sues MySpace.com
By ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writer

LOS ANGELES - Universal Music Group on Friday sued MySpace.com, claiming the online social-networking hub illegally encourages its users to share music and music videos on the site without permission.
In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, Universal Music contends MySpace, a unit of News Corp., attempts to shield itself from liability by requiring users agree to grant the Web site a license to publish the content they upload to the site. Users, however, have no such authority over works they don't own.

The Web site also "encourages, facilitates and participates in the unauthorized reproduction, adaptation, distribution and public performance," according to the suit.

In the complaint, Universal singles out features on the Web site that enable users to save copies of videos to their profile pages or share them with others on the site.

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WTF? I thought the music pages on Myspace were made by the actual artists, save for a few fake ones.

I don't think they can win this lawsuit.

I know of several people who start MySpace Music pages for the sole purpose of hosting music they want on their pages.

I can understand why geniune artists would want to have a MySpace Music page to showcase their work, but if users really want to upload their own music onto an online "locker"...I use Ripway and My File Hut and I can have as many songs on a playlist as I want at any given time.

Those MySpace music players don't work most of the time, anyway.