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Wednesday, September 13, 2000
*NSync label sues MP3.com
The parent company to the labels representing Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and *NSync, has joined the fight against the embattled music download site MP3.com.
Zomba Records, which includes song publishing and several sub-labels, has sued MP3.com for willful copyright violation through its MyMP3.com service.
Recently, Universal Music won a judgement against MP3.com that could be worth up to $250 million; each of the other major labels settled for an estimated $20 million each, plus royalties on future downloads.
Lawyers for MP3.com said at the time of the Universal decision that the award, if upheld, would ruin their business, but that hasn't stopped Zomba from piling on.
"MP3.com has adopted a blatant strategy of attempting to unlawfully build a business by misappropriating us and our artists' and writers' goodwill, recordings and songs," Zomba said in a press release.
The MyMp3.com service allows users who own a copy of an album in the site's music database, register that CD and then listen to it from any computer, without the need for the original disc.
Through its constellation of labels, Zomba also controls music releases by Tool, R. Kelly, Jars Of Clay, Weird Al Yankovic, Michael W. Smith, Bob Carlisle, Third Day, and Buddy Guy.
Their song publishing interests include numbers recorded by Whitney Houston, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion and The Corrs.
-- AllPop
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