Universal Music Prevents Popular Play From Showing In Stockholm,...

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 10/14/2009 - 14:15

As the major record labels and their lawyers and lobbyists run around the globe demonizing anyone for any sort of copyright infringement, we keep hearing stories of how they falsely claim rights over music for which they do not hold them.

We recently covered the story of Edwyn Collins and his inability to offer free downloads of a popular hit song -- because Warner Music Group put in a copyright claim on the song.

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