Website to pay $950K for posting Beatles hits

Website to pay 0K for posting Beatles hits
A website that sold Beatles songs online for 25 cents apiece before they became legally available has agreed to pay record companies nearly $ 1 million to settle a federal lawsuit.   U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton Tucker signed off on the settlement between BlueBeat.com and music companies EMI Group PLC, Capitol Records and Virgin Records America on Friday. The judge ruled in December that …
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International News: LimeWire sued for an absurd trillion
The major labels have demanded “more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877.”
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Beatles – Website Bosses To Pay Million For Illegally Selling Beatles Songs
Website chiefs who illegally sold songs by the Beatles over the internet have agreed to pay almost $ 1 million (625,000) to record companies after reaching a settlement, California court papers showed on Monday (28Mar11). BlueBeat….
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