New York - Major record label Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Seeqpod, an online music service that provides links to streaming music files hosted on third-party sites, Silicon Alley Insider reports. Warner claims the service links to sites with unauthorized files.

For its part, Seeqpod, which was partially funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, maintains that it does not host any copyrighted material.

On its website, the company states that "courts have repeatedly held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the doctrine of Fair Use shield search engines from liability," adding that "removing links to content on the Internet that cannot be found anywhere else is a form of censorship and counter to the principles Free Speech (sic)."

In addition to its website, Seeqpod also recently released a version of its service optimized for Apple's iPhone.

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