EMI suing U.S. site over Beatles songs

Nov 05, 2009

LONDON -- Beatles record label EMI is suing U.S. music Web site BlueBeat.com, which it said was offering unauthorized downloads of the Fab Four's tracks for sale. "EMI has not authorized content to be sold on BlueBeat.com," a spokeswoman said. EMI confirmed it had filed a copyright infringement suit against BlueBeat.com in a U.S. court this week. BlueBeat.com offers songs for 25 U.S. cents each, around one quarter of what a song would typically cost on the dominant online music retail...More