RIAA Sues Project Playlist
In today’s episode of Lawyers Gone Wild, the recording industry filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that Project Playlist, a company that provides an embeddable music player for MySpace and Facebook, has violated its copyright, CNET News reports.
The much-maligned RIAA filed the suit on behalf of nine separate record labels, and alleges that Project Playlist made unauthorized reproductions of their music.
“Project Playlist performs and reproduces plaintiffs’ valuable works (and induces and enables others to do so) without any authorization whatsoever,” the RIAA said in its complaint, “without paying any compensation whatsoever… Defendant is well aware that the overwhelming majority of the sound recordings in its index are infringing.
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