Saturday, January 7, 2012

EMI Label Sues ReDigi, the Used Digital Music Store; New York Times, 1/6/12

Ben Sisario, New York Times; EMI Label Sues ReDigi, the Used Digital Music Store:

"Earlier this week, the music-publishing division of EMI filed suit against Grooveshark, a popular online music service, for breach of contract. On Friday, one of the labels in EMI’s recorded-music arm, Capitol, sued another online music company, ReDigi, for copyright infringement.

ReDigi opened last year with a novel, if controversial, business concept: let consumers resell their old digital music files. Relying on the “first sale doctrine”..."

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