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Judge Orders Site Selling Beatles Tracks to Cease

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 6, 2009 - 9:04am.
Los Angeles - A federal judge has ordered BlueBeat, a company selling unauthorized Beatles recordings online, to immediately cease the practice.

Santa Cruz, Calif.-based BlueBeat and owner Hank Risan had argued that it had created new, copyrightable versions of the Beatles songs by re-recording them through a process called "psycho-acoustic simulation."

Risan said in documents submitted in the lawsuit filed against him by EMI that BlueBeat had "independently developed their own original sounds," but U.S. District Judge John F. Walter rejected the claim.

BlueBeat and Risan are now likely susceptible to millions in copyright infringement damages claims.

 

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http://snipurl.com/t3sd4 (Wired.com)

http://snipurl.com/t3sg2 (Copyrights and Campaigns blog)

http://snipurl.com/t3sgv (DMW previous coverage)

Published in DMW Daily, November 6, 2009
tags: Law | Lawsuits | Music | Beatles | Copyright | BlueBeat | Hank Risan |



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