{"id":110504,"date":"2009-12-29T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Imeem-Gets-a-1-77-Million-Fine-130772.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-29T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T10:27:00","slug":"imeem-gets-a-1-77-million-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/110504","title":{"rendered":"Imeem Gets a $1.77-Million Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Imeem-Gets-a-1-77-Million-Fine-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> Imeem is the prime example that the online music business is far from a safe bet even now, as it&#8217;s beginning to look like 2010 may finally be the year when music streaming services become viable businesses for the companies running them as well as for the users. The free streaming service has been acquired by MySpace Music for a paltry sum, around $1 million, and has since been dismantled. And just when it looked like it couldn&#8217;t get any worse, the site gets a fine for $1.77 million in a copyright infringement suit.<\/p>\n<p>The Orchard Enterprises, a music distribution company, filed a lawsuit against the company earlier this autumn over alleged copyright infringement charges. Things aren&#8217;t exactly clear cut though, as Imeem is accused of going over the bounds of a licensing agreement by streaming full songs instead of the previews which the license apparently allowed it to. Imeem decided to skip the hearings altogether leading the judge to issue a default judgment and fine the company.<\/p>\n<p>However, the consequences of the decision are a bit murky as it looks like MySpace wasn&#8217;t involved in the lawsuit which would indicate that the assets it acquired from Imeem weren&#8217;t part of the legal battle. Because of the legal and financial troubles, MySpace Music only bought select assets from the company, the most valuable of which are&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Imeem-Gets-a-1-77-Million-Fine-130772.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imeem is the prime example that the online music business is far from a safe bet even now, as it&#8217;s beginning to look like 2010 may finally be the year when music streaming services become viable businesses for the companies running them as well as for the users. The free streaming service has been acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}