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Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview"

Posted by timothy on from the such-a-loaded-term dept.

the simurgh writes As the controversy surrounding Sony's handling of its hack, the movie The Interview and its aftermath continues, a singer is claiming that after failing to reach terms with Sony, the company put her music in the movie anyway. Yoon Mi-rae (real name Natasha Shanta Reid) is a U.S.-born hip hop and R&B singer who currently releases music on the Feel Ghood Music label. Sshe and her label claim that her track we learned that the track 'Pay Day' has been used without permission, legal procedure, or contracts.

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  1. Hmmm ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, once again, if we do this we get crushed under the heel of a team of lawyers.

    But a multinational like Sony does it and I bet they'll just dicker and claim some bullshit like fair use they routinely deny exists.

    I sincerely hope Sony has to pay a massive fine for this ... something on par with what we'd get beat down with.

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    1. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe she should have put a rootkit on her CD?

    2. Re:Hmmm ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If we do it, Sony is one of the companies who helped pay for the law which says you and I would have to pay massive amounts of statutory damages, with additional punitive damages for having done it on purpose.

      I want Sony to receive the same magnitude of punishment as they would insist we receive.

      Because I really despise multinationals when they argue both sides of the same legal argument as it benefits them.

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    3. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe she did, and that was how Sony got hacked...

  2. Sauce for the goose by ihtoit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    $150,000 per claimed violation. That should be counted as ticket sales. How many tickets were sold for the opening day alone?

    Sony would regret lobbying for that pesky DMCA... >:]

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    1. Re:Sauce for the goose by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Why limit to just the legal downloads when the **AA's lawyers certainly don't? Remember, according to the *AAs, it's also a crime to *facilitate* theft, so by making available the movie that includes the copyrighted track surely they should also be liable for all the several million torrented copies, plus all the legitmate pay-per-view downloads from Google etc. too?

      While I suspect this is probaby just a case of office incompetence and someone forgetting an action that will probably be quickly cleaned up with a check in the post, I dearly hope this does end up going to court. Watching Sony's lawyers try and get themselves off the hook without setting precedents that anyone else being sued for infringing copyright can use would be priceless.

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