That questionably effectual medicine service Grooveshark is in red-hot water again . EMI , the one magnanimous music label it has a licensing deal with , is process its ass .
TheNew York Times reportsthat , on Wednesday , EMI Music Publishing filed a suit against Grooveshark ’s parent company , the Escape Media Group .
EMI lay claim that Escape Media has breached the contract they struck up in 2009 , saying that it has “ made not a individual royalty payment to EMI , nor provided a undivided account statement . ” TheNew York Times suggeststhat Grooveshark presently owe EMI at least $ 150,000 in royalties . Oops .
Grooveshark ’s business manakin relies on the the Digital Millennium Copyright Act : a Union law that protects Internet companies that host third - party textile if they comply with take - down notices from right of first publication holders . That let Grooveshark host users uploads . Just about .
Obviously , it ’s not pass down too well in medicine recording label land . Last yr , Universal , Warner and Sony Music all lodge copyright violation cases against Grooveshark . With EMI joining the fighting , it ca n’t be long before Grooveshark heads to the great goldfish pipe bowl in the sky . upright luck , Grooveshark . [ New York Times ; epitome : StringsOfASoul ]
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