{"id":1729,"date":"2011-12-12T19:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T00:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2011-12-12T19:06:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T00:06:34","slug":"megaupload-to-sue-universal-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Megaupload To Sue Universal Music ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCkI5I8vsBg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.biz\/bbbiz\/industry\/legal-and-management\/megaupload-threatens-to-sue-universal-music-1005661952.story\" target=\"new\">Billboard<\/a> reports that the above commercial has sparked a lawsuit in-between <strong>Megaupload<\/strong> and <strong>Universal Music Group<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The file sharing service claims that <strong>Universal Music Group<\/strong> had filed a takedown notice with <strong>Youtube<\/strong> for copyright infringement to have this video removed. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let us be clear: Nothing in our song or the video belongs to Universal Music Group,&#8221; said MegaUpload CEO David Robb. &#8220;We have signed agreements with all artists endorsing MegaUpload.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RIAA<\/strong> and the artists featured on the video could not be contacted for comment by <strong>Billboard<\/strong> by the printing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.biz\/bbbiz\/industry\/legal-and-management\/megaupload-threatens-to-sue-universal-music-1005661952.story\" target=\"new\">their article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billboard reports that the above commercial has sparked a lawsuit in-between Megaupload and Universal Music Group. The file sharing service claims that Universal Music Group had filed a takedown notice with Youtube for copyright infringement to have this video removed. &#8220;Let us be clear: Nothing in our song or the video belongs to Universal Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[315,580,992,1056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}