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Copyright: Musiklobby verbietet Schweizer Site

Die Musikindustrie, die viel länger als gewisse 
Soft/warefirmen mit einer Lizenz zum Geld/drucken 
ausgestattet war, hat die Gefahr aus dem Netze längst 
erkannt & schlägt mit ihren Lobbygroups immer öfter zurück. 
Der International Lyrics Server wurde abgedreht, seine 
Betreiber erwarten die Gerichtsverhandlung mit relativer 
Gelassenheit. 

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MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
January 19, 1999 The International Lyrics Server, a popular 
Web site containing the words to more than 100,000 songs, 
was closed last week after music publishers accused the 
site's Switzerland-based operators of copyright violations and 
police officers seized their computers, the site's founder said.
...
Pascal de Vries, a network consultant in Basel who founded 
the site in February 1997, said that when the Lyrics Server 
was active, it received an average of a million hits per day 
from 100,000 visitors seeking the words to chart-topping 
songs by bands like the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith, as 
well as to show tunes and obscure ditties.
...
The Lyrics Server's home page now says that it has been 
"temporarily disabled," in what appears to be the music 
industry's latest success in cracking down on Internet sites 
that reproduce copyrighted material without permission. 

On Thursday, de Vries said, police officers from the cantons 
of Basel and Zurich arrived simultaneously at his apartment, 
his technical consultant's Zurich home and their Zurich-based 
Internet service provider (ISP). 
...
De Vries said the police were responding to a criminal 
complaint filed by lawyers for the Harry Fox Agency, on 
behalf of Warner/Chappell Music Inc., Polygram Music 
Publishing Inc. and six other music-publishing companies.

The Harry Fox Agency is the licensing arm of the National 
Music Publishers' Association, a trade group in New York 
representing more than 600 American music publishers. 
...
 "I say I didn't do it," de Vries calmly asserted in a telephone 
interview on Saturday. He explained that it was the site's 
users who had contributed the lyrics, at a rate of between 
200 and 300 new songs every day, and that he was merely 
making them available in an organized fashion, somewhat 
akin to how and other music-oriented newsgroups do. 
...
 He said, "For us, it was just a kind of discussion database, 
not something to harm the music-publishing companies." 
"They think that they have lost millions through our server," 
he continued, "but they have to prove this, and they didn't 
prove it yet. If they can, this could cost me millions [in 
damages] -- which I never can pay back.
....
"The law is quite an old law, not specific for the Internet, so 
there is plenty of room to discuss," he said. Nevertheless, he 
acknowledged that his case may have ramifications for the 
Swiss ISP industry.
...
Swiss law has yet to be modified, de Vries said, which 
means Cyberlink might face prosecution. 
...
The Harry Fox Agency, which represents 19,000 American 
music publishers, has been aggressive is ferreting out 
copyright violations on the Internet. Last June, the Online 
Guitar Archive, a repository for song chords and lyrics, 
voluntarily closed after the Fox Agency threatened legal 
action against it. 
...

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