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Date: 1999-01-21
Copyright: Musiklobby verbietet Schweizer Site-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Soft/warefirmen mit einer Lizenz zum Geld/drucken ausgestattet war, hat die Gefahr aus dem Netze längst erkannt & schlägt mit ihren Lobbygroups immer öfter zurück. Der International Lyrics Server wurde abgedreht, seine Betreiber erwarten die Gerichtsverhandlung mit relativer Gelassenheit. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- MATTHEW MIRAPAUL January 19, 1999 The International Lyrics Server, a popular Web site containing the words to more than 100,000 songs, was closed last week after music publishers accused the site's Switzerland-based operators of copyright violations and police officers seized their computers, the site's founder said. ... Pascal de Vries, a network consultant in Basel who founded the site in February 1997, said that when the Lyrics Server was active, it received an average of a million hits per day from 100,000 visitors seeking the words to chart-topping songs by bands like the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith, as well as to show tunes and obscure ditties. ... The Lyrics Server's home page now says that it has been "temporarily disabled," in what appears to be the music industry's latest success in cracking down on Internet sites that reproduce copyrighted material without permission. On Thursday, de Vries said, police officers from the cantons of Basel and Zurich arrived simultaneously at his apartment, his technical consultant's Zurich home and their Zurich-based Internet service provider (ISP). ... De Vries said the police were responding to a criminal complaint filed by lawyers for the Harry Fox Agency, on behalf of Warner/Chappell Music Inc., Polygram Music Publishing Inc. and six other music-publishing companies. The Harry Fox Agency is the licensing arm of the National Music Publishers' Association, a trade group in New York representing more than 600 American music publishers. ... "I say I didn't do it," de Vries calmly asserted in a telephone interview on Saturday. He explained that it was the site's users who had contributed the lyrics, at a rate of between 200 and 300 new songs every day, and that he was merely making them available in an organized fashion, somewhat akin to how and other music-oriented newsgroups do. ... He said, "For us, it was just a kind of discussion database, not something to harm the music-publishing companies." "They think that they have lost millions through our server," he continued, "but they have to prove this, and they didn't prove it yet. If they can, this could cost me millions [in damages] -- which I never can pay back. .... "The law is quite an old law, not specific for the Internet, so there is plenty of room to discuss," he said. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that his case may have ramifications for the Swiss ISP industry. ... Swiss law has yet to be modified, de Vries said, which means Cyberlink might face prosecution. ... The Harry Fox Agency, which represents 19,000 American music publishers, has been aggressive is ferreting out copyright violations on the Internet. Last June, the Online Guitar Archive, a repository for song chords and lyrics, voluntarily closed after the Fox Agency threatened legal action against it. ... full text http://www.netclue.ch/nytimes.html Source New York Times Company relayed by [email protected] -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1999-01-21 comments to [email protected] subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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