MPA Threatens Legal Action Against Free Peer-to-Peer Magazine Portal
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Following in the barely legal footsteps of free, peer-to-peer digital magazine sites that have come before it, Mygazines.com, a Web site that enables users to “share” magazines as they would in “a doctors’ office, law firm, library and hair salon,” launched today.
“This is a blatant infringement on all magazines’ copyrights that we’re taking very seriously,” Lauren Starke, director of public relations for New York magazine, said in a statement to FOLIO: Wednesday. “We are working with our legal counsel and the MPA to put a stop to this abuse of magazine content.” A Hearst spokesperson said the company was exploring similar legal options. And the MPA weighed in with a statement to FOLIO:: “We believe [this] is a blatant copyright infringement of our members’ titles. We are aggressively pursuing the matter in conjunction with our members’ attorneys and expect that legal action will commence shortly.”
http://www.foliomag.com/2008/another-free-peer-peer-magazine-portal-launches
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