A federal judge, John Walter, ruled that the Santa Cruz-based online music distributor BlueBeat must immediately stop selling copyrighted music on its website.
A federal judge, John Walter, ruled that the Santa Cruz-based online music distributor BlueBeat must immediately stop selling copyrighted music on its website. The court rejected the company’s claim that it owned the tracks because it had rerecorded them with a new technology known as “psycho-acoustic simulation.” Copyright experts deemed the claim “baseless.” Ironically, BlueBeat recently attempted to copyright its own rerecordings of popular music. The company could be faced with millions of dollars in damages. Read More at IT Portal.
