Grooveshark employee Nikola Arabadjiev settled with major record labels...
Grooveshark employee Nikola Arabadjiev settled with major record labels in a 2011 copyright infringement case against the on-demand music service, according to documents obtained by P2P news site TorrentFreak (http://bit.ly/17Gfpe5). Arabadjiev does quality assurance for Grooveshark, according to the company’s…
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site. The settlement is related to a copyright case brought against Grooveshark -- owned by Escape Media -- and its employees by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Bros. Records after Grooveshark allegedly made available to users music owned by the labels without their permission (WID Dec 22/11 p1). Under the consent judgment, Arabadjiev is prohibited from “copying, uploading, reproducing, distributing, transmitting or publically [sic] performing any of the Copyrighted Works in violation of the United States Copyright Act, via the Grooveshark service or any other online streaming service, website, application, or peer-to-peer or file-trading system that operates without authority or license from the appropriate Plaintiff or any of its licensees.” In a statement, Grooveshark said it’s “pleased that the case between Universal Music and Escape Media has been narrowed and simplified by the removal of some individual defendants from the case upon their stipulation to simply obey the law -- something Escape Media does every day through its active licensing of millions of tracks and its strict compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."