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A Lawsuit
Submitted by BuildingsAndFood on 20 November 2006 - 12:33am.
I found another interesting news story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6160414.stm
It's about Universal Music Group suing MySpace for encouraging copyright infringement. Wtf? Why would they waste their time with this? It seems to me like MySpace's case is pretty airtight, as they've done less to encourage law-breaking than almost any musically-oriented site since prior to Napster's inception. In fact, MySpace is nothing but good for music - the industry, the musicians, the art form. This is a terrible PR move and an unwinnable case. Seriously, if anyone can see why a record company would continue the litigation against this particular site, let me know. Show me what I'm missing.
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Godzilla v. King Kong
I think "Free Culture" has taught me that large coorporations such as NBC-Universal and Time-Warner have HUGE branches dedicated solely to LAW. They have great, overpayed lawyers who have NOTHING BETTER TO DO than sue the pants off of other coorporations. Personally I'd much rather see Coorporation go after Cooporation than Cooporation go after small individuals such as college students--very much like how I'd rather see Godzilla v. King Kong than Godzilla eating a bunch of helpless school children.