Tribnet.com reports that famous pop-star Prince is currently sueing one of his biggest fans, because according to the artist the fan was offering pirated music downloads on his website. According to the fan he was only linking to other websites who offered the songs for downloading.
The lawsuit alleges that Lankford broke federal copyright laws by allowing Web users to download Prince songs that included "specific information describing which day the unauthorized recording of the 'Xenophobia' concert took place." |
Lankford denied violating the copyrights and said he doesn't think he's done anything illegal.
"What he's claiming is that I put up files on my Web site. What happened is I put up links to other Web sites that had files on them," he said Friday.
Lankford said there's no mention of Prince on the Web site now and there won't be any in the future.
"One of my favorite artists is coming after me for promoting him on my Web site," Lankford said. "For him to seek $150,000 per song to try to ruin me for doing nothing more than promoting him is ... overdoing it."
Source: Tribnet.com
