Yahoo! not "interactive" enough, says judge
By Tom Krazit
Published: 24 August 2009 09:13 GMT
A three-judge panel ruled on Friday that Yahoo! will not have to pay up every time it plays a song on its internet radio service, affirming an earlier verdict.
In what is being seen as a defeat for the music industry, Yahoo! Music was not deemed "interactive" enough to require the company to negotiate with record companies for the rights to play songs over the internet. Instead, according to Reuters, it merely has to pay licensing fees to digital music rights organisation SoundExchange.
The suit arose way back in 2001, when a division of Sony sued Launch Media claiming the service was bypassing a law that requires those who provide specific playlists of songs over the internet to pay rights holders. Yahoo! also acquired Launch Media that year but has since turned over control of the service to CBS Radio, a division of the same corporation that publishes silicon.com.
Yahoo! won the case in 2007 but Sony appealed, resulting in Friday's decision.
Original article: Yahoo wins appeal of music-streaming case from CNET News.com
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