After the CEO of Universal Music
declared that YouTube and MySpace should Universal Music Group "tens of millions of dollars", UMG began to implement its threats to life, suing MySpace, accusing it of copyright infringement.
The most interesting and dangerous part of this accusation is that Universal claims that MySpace participated in copyright infringement by
converting copyrighted
video .
Today, MySpace is launching a new tool that will allow copyright holders to tag pirated content on the site. This tool uses
Gracenote technology.
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Some anatitics are already saying that a new copyright policy
will kill MySpace .
A few weeks after the MySpace and YouTube threats, Universal signed a licensing agreement with the latter. She also accused the services of
Grouper and
Bolt in the appearance of copyright.