Warner Music Sues Seeqpod
Warner Music has filed suit against music search engine Seeqpod for copyright infringement.
Seeqpod offers a music search engine that allows users to play music they find directly on the site. According to comScore the service had over 6 million page views in December 2007.
Warner Music claims in its suit that Seeqpod infringes on their copyrighted works by ‘making on-demand and unauthorized digital public performances of these works,’ making a direct and material contribution to infringing content by presenting content from ‘pirate sites.’
What’s interesting about this case is that Seeqpod is a search engine; it links to content as Google would, although it does allow users to play the content from their site, but ultimately they never host any of the content.
The EFA notes that there is little case law relating to search engines and copyright claims, and the DMCA should be applicable here; ‘the defendants are complying with the letter of the law, but copyright owners are now trying to change the rules in court.’
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(Via TechCrunch.)
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