I don't know how this site differs from the sites mentioned in the
"ticky tacky" thread, but you might be interested.
>From Finance - Internet Daily, 1/21/99:
The day the lyrics died
Music publishers have turned up the heat to shut down
Switzerland-based International
Lyrics Server (http://www.lyrics.ch), which makes available lyrics
to more than 100,000
songs. With its database offline, the site greets visitors with a
message reading
"Servers have been confiscated by the police." The National Music
Publishers
Association Inc. said it brought legal action against the Web
site, arguing it was illegally
publishing copyrighted material. In December, a Swiss court issued
a temporary
injunction barring the Web site's use of the musical compositions
named in the suit,
pending a hearing this week. With the additional filing last week
of a criminal complaint
by the copyright owners, the local District Attorney in Basel
ordered the seizure of the
computers and the contents of the Web site's database as evidence.
An ILS
representative said the Web site was "not willing to either cease
the distribution of the
songs nor to close the server," and refused to cooperate in
licensing discussions unless
guaranteed concessions from copyright owners in advance. "It was
soon after that point
that several of our music publisher members sought our assistance
in enforcing their
rights through the Swiss courts," Edward Murphy, the publishers'
association president,
said.
Visit the site, sign the petition, and you will be rewarded with links
to several related sites.
(Yup!! He's back.)
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