Legal Opinion
Atlantic Recording Corp. v. Project Playlist, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 25, 2009No. 08 Civ. 3922 (DC)PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
Defendant Project Playlist, Inc. (“Play-list”) operates a website, www.project playlist.com (the “Website”), that provides an index of links to songs available on third-party websites. Users can create playlists of songs on the Website — hence the name — that they can save on the Web site or upload to their profiles on social networking sites. Users can also download the songs from the third-party websites.
In this case, six of the world’s largest record companies sue Playlist for copyright infringement and unfair competition. Plaintiffs own copyrights to the…
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