The sellers of “almost all the downloaded music in the United States,” including Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, “accept and sell unlicensed music” from “music aggregators,” cheating thousands of artists of royalties, a songwriter claims in a federal class action.
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Norman Blagman sued the four defendants named above, plus eMusic.com and Orchard Enterprises, alleging “massive and systematic” copyright violations. Blagman claims he has been a successful songwriter since the 1950s. Elvis Presley recorded two of his songs, “Put the Blame on Me,” and “Give me the Right,” and one of his tunes was used in the movie “The Producers,” according to the complaint. Los Lobos, the Belmonts and Tiny Tim also have performed his tunes. He claims the defendants violated his copyright on the tune “Jazz is His Old Lady and My Old Man.” Read the full story here…
