EMI Sues Seeqpod, Favtape for Copyright Infringement

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 25, 2009 - 9:55am.

London - Major record label EMI and its Capitol Records subsidiary have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Seeqpod, the provider of a service that lets users search for streaming songs online and create customized streaming playlists, and Favtape, another similar service, VentureBeat reported. EMI also filed suit against Seeqpod founder and CEO Kazian Franks, as well as company investors Raf Podowski and Shekhar Lodha, and Favtape developer Ryan Sit. The lawsuits seek billions of dollars in damages.

EMI's lawsuit against Seeqpod follows Warner Music (NYSE: WMG), which sued the company for copyright infringement in January 2008.

Seeqpod maintains that its service merely provides "playable search," adding a music software player to the song search results one could just as easily find through Google or Yahoo.

http://snipurl.com/cmzcw (VentureBeat)

http://michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=287

http://www.seeqpod.com

http://favtape.com

Published in DMW Daily, February 25, 2009

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Seeqpod is finished

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on February 25, 2009 - 2:07pm.

Seeqpod is finished. I can't believe it isn't out yet. This lawsuit is meaningless. These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along... Someone found the truth, however (LOL) - "I blame iTunes" they seem to be the only ones making money in this game - http://www.headlineshirts.net/i-blame-itunes-t-shirt.html

Myxer also has copyright infringement lawsuit against it

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on February 25, 2009 - 3:15pm.

Sites like these including Myxer (www.myxer.com) violate the law. It is plain and simple copyright infringement and these sites are enabling people to steal protected material. Making money by ripping off other peoples protected work is a crime and sites like these that enable this theft violate the law and should be shut down.