Facebook bans Project Playlist
p2pnet news view Music:- “MySpace has started blocking your playlists from loading on their site,” said Project Playlist.
But, “our playlists are still available here on Playlist.com, where you can continue to search for music, create and play new playlists.”
Frequent poster Comeoncomcast, “has a special Christmas message from MySpace owner and Australian zillionaire Rupert Murdoch,” said p2pnet just before Christmas, going on
“Addressed to MySpace member it says, in effect, ‘Up Yours!’ ”
MySpace is accusing Projectplaylist of Copyright Infringement and it has hit home. said Comeoncomcast.
Facebook, “resisted a few days longer than MySpace but finally has given in to the RIAA’s demands that the Project Playlist app be removed for copyright violation,” says paidContent, going on:
“The RIAA sued Project Playlist back in April and yet the company has been able to increase its funding and attract top talent since then. The start-up announced funding from Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group (Pittman joined the board) and the hiring of former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta as CEO. Rafat called the service ‘borderline legal’ at the time; Van Natta needs to get the other labels on board to move the needle to legal.”
Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA like to accuse their file sharing victims of being ‘massive’ online distributors of copyrighted music, said p2pnet in April, continuing »»»
Now they’re levelling the same charge at Project Playlist which, among other things, offers an embeddable music player.
“Create a FREE myspace music playlist!” – it says.
And, “Our internet search engine allows you to locate media files that are freely available on the world wide web,” it states. “The listings in our search engine are automatically gathered from music blogs, trade-friendly concert archives, artist websites, record label websites and other public sources. In addition to automatic gathering, we accept submissions to our search engine by our users.”
Infringement. Right?
Well, “Projectplaylist.com allows you to discover all of this free music legally because we respect the rights of copyright holders and we insist that you do as well,” the owners insist, going on >>>
We pay royalties to songwriters and music publishers, and we respect the performing artist’s choice. Some performing artists make their music freely available on the web, others allow you to listen to only a few freely available songs through a promotional site, and a few would prefer that none of their music be heard on the web at all. If an artist tells us that our search engine is linking to an illegally posted song, we will immediately take down the link to that music file.
“Project Playlist is one of a growing number of online services that enable people to find, arrange and play the songs available (legally or otherwise) on the Net,” says the Los Angeles Times, adding:
“Because they don’t store songs themselves, several of these services have argued that they don’t need to obtain licenses from or pay royalties to the labels. Naturally, the major record companies disagree. Two popular playlisting sites with no visible means of support — Muxtape and Mixwit — folded rather than fight or strike deals. Project Playlist, which sells advertising and has raised more than $20?million from venture capital firms, was sued by Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI Music in April. Sony BMG held its fire, and eventually agreed to grant a license.”
Stay tuned.
p2pnet – MySpace caves to Big 4 label command, December 21, 2008
paidContent - Facebook Joins MySpace In Banning Project Playlist, December 24, 2008
p2pnet – RIAA sues Project Playlist, April 29, 2008
Los Angeles Times – Let music lead the way, December 26, 2008
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December 27th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Where will it end?
I do not like that present.
I thought, at first it was some sort of prank
I and the 300+ Million users back you Jeremy!(Like tom from Myspace)