{"id":1149,"date":"2011-11-21T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/21\/universal-files-new-grooveshark-lawsuit-says-execs-uploaded-1000s-of-pirated-songs\/"},"modified":"2011-11-21T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:28:07","slug":"universal-files-new-grooveshark-lawsuit-says-execs-uploaded-1000s-of-pirated-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/11\/21\/universal-files-new-grooveshark-lawsuit-says-execs-uploaded-1000s-of-pirated-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Files New Grooveshark Lawsuit, Says Execs Uploaded 1000&#8217;s Of Pirated Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicscoop.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/universal-music-300x207.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"108\" \/><br \/>The sharks are circling in the waters around streaming music service <strong>Grooveshark<\/strong>, as <strong>Universal Music Group<\/strong> takes aim with a new lawsuit alleging that the site&#8217;s execs conspired to illegally upload more than <strong>100,000 songs<\/strong>. UMG has asked the court to <strong>shut Grooveshark down immediately<\/strong> and is seeking damages of <strong>$150,000 per infringement.  <!--more-->  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music Blogger Drawn Into Lawsuit<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p>Last year UMG filed a suit claiming copyright infringement on songs  from their pre-1972 catalog and EMI filed and then settled a similar  suit. In last Friday&#8217;s filing, first reported by Greg Sandoval of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-57327815-261\/lawsuit-claims-grooveshark-workers-posted-100000-pirated-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNet<\/a>, UMG offers alleged proof including company e-mails and other documents that shows <strong>&#8220;that  the sound recordings illegally copied by  Escape&#8217;s executives and  employees, include thousands of well known sound  recordings owned by  UMG.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Included in the evidence presented by UMG is an comment on Digital  Music News which the blog says it never vetted. The comment by an  alleged Grooveshark employee states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">&#8220;We are assigned a  predetermined amount of weekly uploads to the system  and get a small  extra bonus if we manage to go above that (not easy).The  assignments  are assumed as direct orders from the top to the bottom, we  don&#8217;t just  volunteer to &#8216;enhance&#8217; the Grooveshark database.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Digital Music News publisher Paul Resniko admits he &#8220;did not attempt  to clarify the identity&#8221; of the widely quoted commenter now central to  the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Universal reportedly also claims it has evidence that Grooveshark CEO  Samuel Tarantin uploaded more than 1,791 copyrighted songs, SVP Paul  Geller 3,453 songs and VP Benjamin Westermann-Clark 4,600 tracks.<\/p>\n<p>If UMG can prove that Grooveshark employees uploaded or encouraged  the uploading of songs, the music serviceand its executives would likely  be unable to continue to claim protection under the Digital Millennium  Copyright Act&#8217;s safe harbor provision. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sharks are circling in the waters around streaming music service Grooveshark, as Universal Music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}