29.12.2014 - 19:06 [ Techdirt ]

Sony‘s Own Copyright Infringement Shows How Broken Our Copyright System Is Today

As we‘ve been covering, Sony was among those involved in the MPAA‘s plot to attack Google by paying for state Attorneys General investigations into Google, a company that the MPAA still thinks isn‘t doing „enough“ to stop piracy online. Yet, now it comes out that in The Interview — a movie whose plotline has become intertwined with the Sony Hack — Sony used some music that it did not license. The musicians in question are now threatening to sue: