US Targets AllofMP3.com In Agreement With Russia To Join WTO

In a letter from the USA to Russia regarding what it must achieve to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), it appears that AllofMP3.com must be shut down. Hard to imagine that AllofMP3.com would be sticking point in negotiations to join the WTO, but a summary of negotiations from the US Trade Representative targets AllofMP3.com as an illegal distributor of music. It appears the Russian government has agreed to shut down popular...

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Universal Looks To Settle MySpace Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Doug Morris, CEO of Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, stated publicly that he expects to reach a settlement with MySpace, which the company sued for copyright infringement. Earlier this month, Universal, owned by French media giant Vivendi, filed a lawsuit against popular social networking site MySpace, owned by News Corp., for infringing the copyrights of thousands of artists’ works. In the...

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