Judge Tosses EMI’s Case Against Seeqpod Founders

February 5th, 2010 admin

A U.S. District Court judge has thrown out a complaint by record label EMI against the founders of now-defunct music search engine Seeqpod, effectively ending a year-old case that attracted special attention because it also named as a defendant a developer who had used the company’s application programming interface (API). Earlier this week, Judge Laura Taylor Swain granted Seeqpod’s founders’ motion to dismiss the case against them, citing a lack of personal jurisdiction in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York. In the suit, EMI had alleged copyright infringement by Seeqpod CEO Kasian Franks, two co-founding investors and…


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