INFO/NYT: Music Recording Specific Search Engine Sues for Right to Link to Recorded Music Even if Pirated

From: David P. Dillard <jwne[_at_]astro.ocis.temple.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:05:43 -0400 (EDT)

REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW:      MP3Board.com Inc. is a music recording search engine business that has twelve employees. MP2Board.com, Inc. is suing the recording industry over the right to link to content on the internet regardless of its nature and legality. The defendent in the suit, Recording Industry Association of America, asserts that MP2Board.com, Inc. is linking to a large number of pirated works.

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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: MATT RICHTEL
Title: Warned by the Music Industry, Web Site Files Suit Source Date: June 6, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Search Engines, Subject/Content Specific,   Linking, Digital Music Recordings, Piracy, Lawsuit, Linking,   Rights, Freedom of Speech and Information URL: Listed Below Article Summary
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June 6, 2000

     Warned by the Music Industry, Web Site Files Suit
     By MATT RICHTEL

     SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 -- In a lawsuit that legal experts say 

may have broad implications for all Internet search engines, a music Web site has sued the recording industry to retain the ability to link to music files even though some of the works may be pirated material.

     The suit, filed late Friday in Federal District Court in San Jose, brings to a boil a simmering dispute between MP3Board.com Inc., a 12-employee music search engine in Santa Cruz, Calif., and the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major record labels.

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