The renowned musician is suing 22 bloggers and Facebook users a cool
$22M for bootlegging his live concerts. Reports Spin: Prince is hitting
the road, but maybe think twice before recording any of the shows and posting
tracks online. His Purpleness has filed a copyright lawsuit against 22
different users of Facebook and Google's Blogger platform. And although he
doesn't know the identity of all the defendants, he's demanding each pay $1
million in damages. That could've bought a lot of Paisley Park pajama-party
tickets. Continues....
According to the 21-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San
Francisco (via Antiquiet), the defendants "engage in massive infringement
and bootlegging of Prince's material." The lawsuit targets Dan Chodera,
Karina Jindrova, and 20 anonymous defendants. Chodera and Jindrova allegedly
operated a no-longer-online Facebook account that posted a bunch of bootleg
Prince videos. The other defendants — "Does" 1 through 20 — are
accused of similar infractions, such as pointing to a 1983 Chicago set from
WorldofBootleg.blogspot.com.
Hey, we'd like to hear that one. So yeah, you may want to chill on
hosting any Prince music online without proper permission. If not, as is the
case her, Prince will reportedly demand that you pay his lawyer fees, be taken
to jury trial, get you permanently blocked from ever sharing his music,
give back any money they made from the videos on top of the million dollars in
damages.
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