Los Angeles - Gimado, the operator of a search engine for streaming and downloadable music files, has landed $300,000 in seed funding from an undisclosed investors, Mashable.com reported.

Gimado offers a service similar to that of Seeqpod, which was recently sued for copyright infringement by Warner Music Group.

Gimado, like Seeqpod, would likely argue that it does not host any copyrighted media on its servers; it merely links to files hosted elsewhere.

The "safe harbor" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in certain cases protect Internet service providers and similar services from liability for copyright infringement or other crimes committed by users of their services.

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