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Online music company MP3.com said Friday it filed a malpractice lawsuit against its former legal counsel, Cooley Godward LLP, seeking several hundred million of dollars in damages and compensation over a slew of copyright lawsuits that it faced. In the suit filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, MP3.com said it launched its “My.MP3.com” service in January 2000 based on allegedly inaccurate and incomplete legal advice from the Palo Alto, California-based law firm. The service, which enabled users to store recordings contained on their CDs and listen to them from any available Internet connection, provoked several copyright lawsuits by major… Read more »

Olivia Harrison, widow of the late George Harrison, has sued her former brother-in-law in regards to some Harrison memorabilia stolen from a home the family used to own in Los Angeles. Harrison filed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday (January 11) against her sister Linda Arias’s ex-husband Carl Roles and his current wife Carol Roles, accusing the couple of wrongfully possessing, selling, and profiting from the material, which is described as “household and personal items of sentimental value.” The suit asks for return of the property, unspecified damages (including interest), and attorney’s fees and other costs. A… Read more »

The court has dismissed a lawsuit filed last year against singer Marc Anthony, which alleged that his award-winning hit song “I Need to Know” was not written by Anthony and composer/producer Cory Rooney. According to Anthony’s lawyer, Orin Snyder of the firm Parcher, Hayes & Snyder, the lawsuit was dismissed by United States District Judge Denny Chin after Daniel Agren determined that his claims were legally insufficient. The lawsuit had alleged that “I Need to Know” infringed the copyright of an unpublished song by Agren of the same title. “This lawsuit was frivolous from the outset and Marc should be… Read more »

Defining Australian rock band Midnight Oil is back with their first album release in the United States in over four years, “Capricornia,” slated to street February 19, 2002. “Capricornia” – the 14th full-length studio recording of the Oils’- is the legendary group’s debut CD for the newly formed, BMG-distributed Liquid 8 Records, to which they were signed earlier this year. Midnight Oil originally conjured up their unmistakable sound in 1976, and ever since, fronted by fiercely passionate lead vocalist Peter Garrett, has been internationally recognized for the take-no-prisoners style of consciousness-raising they bring to their always commanding and often incendiary… Read more »

R.E.M. and Jewel will perform short sets at the third You Gotta Have Friends benefit for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis on January 31 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The alternative rock pioneers are expected to play a 30 to 45-minute electric set, and Jewel will play an approximately 20-minute-long acoustic set. The event will be hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and will honor AOL Time Warner for their commitment to the fight against AIDS. You Gotta Have Friends will also feature a performance by Sweet Honey in the Rock, a Grammy-winning female a cappella gospel/jazz/blues ensemble, and appearances by Rosie… Read more »

Looking to take advantage of what they say is a large and lucrative niche audience untapped by television programmers, two cable divisions of Viacom (news/quote), MTV Networks and Showtime, are developing a plan to create the first cable channel aimed directly at gay viewers. The still unnamed channel would be offered to cable system operators as a pay channel like HBO or Showtime – only much less costly at $5 or $6 a month – but it would also include advertising. MTV Networks and Showtime have conducted extensive audience testing and concluded that there is, as one Showtime executive put… Read more »

Though Michael Jackson won’t perform at the American Music Awards in early January after all, he’ll still be performing on television that same night – on another network. CBS plans to re-broadcast the singer’s concert special, “Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration,” with previously unseen footage of Britney Spears and Lil’ Romeo, to air against the AMAs on ABC January 9th. Jackson’s two-hour concert special, which originally aired November 13th, gave CBS some of its highest ratings this year – it was the network’s biggest Tuesday night, excluding sports programming, since 1994. According to Nielsen Media Research estimates, an estimated 45… Read more »

Sam Phillips demurs when it’s suggested that rock ‘n’ roll was invented at his Sun Records label during the 1950s. But he does acknowledge there was a whole lotta shakin’ going on in Memphis thanks to the music he created there with the likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and others. “I do know this – it changed the world and it opened up a lot of doors,” Phillips said in a recent interview. “I’m happy we were able to contribute, at least in my opinion, to what music has done and is… Read more »

Online file-sharing service Napster and the record industry squared off again in federal appeals court on Monday over the fine points of enforcing the court-ordered restrictions on Napster’s now-idled service. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Pasadena, California, heard about an hour of arguments from the two sides on how to share the burden between them in policing Napster to prevent copyrighted material from being illegally exchanged. A spokesman for Napster, which has been out of operation since July, said the service argued for three main points: that the RIAA should be required to… Read more »

A former school classmate of Eminem has filed a $1 million lawsuit in Macomb County, Mich., Circuit Court against the rapper, alleging his reputation has been damaged by lyrics from Eminem’s song “Brain Damage,” according to the Detroit Free Press. DeAngelo Bailey of Roseville, Mich., is called out in the song “Brain Damage” from The Slim Shady LP, in which Eminem portrays his former classmate as a relentless bully who constantly battered the rapper. “I was harassed daily by this fat kid named DeAngelo Bailey,” raps Eminem in the song. “An eighth-grader who acted obnoxious, cause his father boxes/ So… Read more »