{"id":5092,"date":"2015-03-23T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/03\/23\/universal-music-vs-flight-company\/"},"modified":"2015-03-23T12:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:20:40","slug":"universal-music-vs-flight-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/03\/23\/universal-music-vs-flight-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Labels Vs Flight companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/1\/1c\/Universal_Music_Group.svg\/411px-Universal_Music_Group.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"82\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013, Sony Music filed a lawsuit against airline music service Inflight and United Airlines.\u00a0 Sony said unauthorized copies of their music were being played on airplanes. In 2014, Universal Music filed a similar lawsuit against Inflight.\u00a0 They later added American Airlines to the complaint. Universal accused these parties of violating their copyright.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Now, there\u2019s more turbulence: as of this week, Inflight has countersued Universal Music, according to The Hollywood Reporter.<br \/>Inflight says Universal provided them with music and allowed them to use it for years before suddenly changing their stance.<\/p>\n<p>Inflight says they contacted Universal in 2009 because their licensing coverage was not complete.\u00a0 They say Universal agreed to a fee and said they would send an agreement, but never did.<\/p>\n<p>They used Universal\u2019s music between 2009 and 2013.\u00a0 Inflight claims:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cDuring this time frame, Universal Music assured IFP that its continued reproduction and distribution of Universal Music\u2019s works in the United States for use on airlines was acceptable\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Universal sent Inflight a cease and desist in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Inflight says Universal only sued because Sony did it first.\u00a0 They\u2019re countersuing Universal for misrepresentation, concealment, interference with contractual relations, and interference with prospective economic advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2013, Sony Music filed a lawsuit against airline music service Inflight and United&#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-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","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=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}