Universal sues MySpace
20/11/2006 06:49  - (SA)  

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New York - Universal Music Group has filed a suit against leading internet social networking site MySpace for violating copyrights of artists Universal represents, MySpace said on Friday.

Universal, a division of French media giant Vivendi Universal, filed the complaint against MySpace, a unit of News Corp, in the federal court in Los Angeles, where News Corp and MySpace are both located, MySpace spokesperson Jeff Berman told AFP.

MySpace, which hosts hundreds of thousands of personal web pages and diaries that can carry text, video and sound features, defended its content on Friday, noting it is a free website and that it makes efforts to abide by the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

But the music industry has been concerned that many personal pages like those on MySpace put up copyrighted material and that it is difficult for hosts of the pages to prevent it.

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