EMI Takes Grooveshark to Court

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Peter Kafka

Digital music startups seem to come in two flavors these days: Those that are being sued by the major music labels, and those that have expensive licensing deals that they can’t afford.

But for some reason, plucky Grooveshark, which runs a very nice free streaming music service, has stayed out of both of those buckets until now. I’ve confirmed that EMI Music Group is suing the site–whose motto is “Play any song in the world. For free!”–for copyright violation…..