Grooveshark claims Universal’s copyright lawsuit is baseless
Grooveshark, a music-sharing site, is now on the wrong end of a lawsuit on November 18th filed by Universal Music Group, which contends that the site has posted more than 100,000 pirated songs. The lawsuit points to executives at Grooveshark as having personally uploaded much of the copyrighted content: Universal Music says it found evidence that Samuel Tarantino, Grooveshark’s CEO, uploaded at least 1,791 copyrighted songs and Benjamin Westermann-Clark, a VP for the company, is accused of uploading more than 4,600 pirated songs. Read more
