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Geoff the Duck

Musicians sue MP3.com in $40.5 million copyright suit

Tom Waits, Heart and Randy Newman have filed a £28.5 million copyright infringement lawsuit against MP3.com.

The artists, who all own the copyrights to their music, allege the site's My.Mp3.com service gives listeners unlicensed access to their songs.

They claim about 270 songs are illegally available through the service and are asking for the maximum penalty of around £105,000 for each song.

The suit lists songs such as Downtown Train by Waits and Barracuda by Heart, as well as Newman's hits I Love LA and Short People.

It claims the MP3's copyright safeguard - whereby users are asked to insert a compact disc into a computer to prove ownership - is unsatisfactory.

"Unless the major artists band together to do this, everyone else is taken advantage of as well," said attorney for the plaintiffs Henry Gradstein.

A spokesman for MP3.com said the company has not been served with the suit and couldn't comment.

Last November, MP3.com agreed to pay £37.5 million to Universal Music Group, which ended the company's disputes with major music-makers.

Earlier, a federal court judge in New York ruled MP3.com had intentionally violated the copyrights of the music companies.

Last October the National Music Publishers' Association filed a separate suit. MP3.com agreed to pay them $34 million to make more than a million musical compositions available on the site.

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