Two of the world's largest record companies on Thursday joined a lawsuit against Grooveshark, an online music service they say infringes on their copyrights
The music companies, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music Entertainment and Access Industries Inc.'s Warner Music Group, joined in an amended complaint to a suit filed last month by Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The amended complaint alleges that Grooveshark executives personally uploaded copies of songs to which they didn't have the rights, a claim first made in the November lawsuit. That behavior would appear to go beyond the bounds of what is protected by the "safe harbor" provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, which gives operators of online services some protection from liability if their users engage in copyright infringement.
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