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BlueBeat.com, BaseBeat.com Blocked from Selling Beatles Songs
7-Nov-2009
Written by: TheCelebrityCafe.com Staff
EMI Group has filed a lawsuit against these two websites, claiming that they are partaking in music piracy and copyright infringement
Before BlueBeat.com and BaseBeat.com made digitally re-mastered versions of classic Beatles songs available for purchase at their websites for just $0.25 per song, Beatles tracks had not been sold as digital downloads. The reason for this is because of EMI Group’s decision to prevent Beatles music from being sold at popular online music stores such as iTunes.
In response to BlueBeat.com and BaseBeat.com making digitally re-mastered Beatles tracks available for purchase without the record label’s permission, EMI Group has filed a lawsuit against the two music websites based on their claim that the sites are partaking in music piracy. According to The Associated Press, EMI Group sought an injunction to have the psycho-acoustic simulation tracks blocked based on copyright infringement.
BlueBeat.com Chief Executive Officer Hank Risan explained the process of psycho-acoustic simulation in an e-mail that he sent to the RIAA to dispute EMI Group’s claims of copyright infringement. Risan described psycho-acoustic simulation as, "My synthetic creation of that series of sounds which best expresses the way I believe a particular melody should be heard as a live performance."
EMI Group is reportedly going after BlueBeat.com and BaseBeat.com over copyright infringement of other musicians and groups outside of The Beatles that they have placed on their website. According to The Associated Press, the record label prevents Beatles tracks from being sold online due to their exclusivity rights, which enable them to sell all 13 of the group’s albums in box set form for a suggested retail price of $250.
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