Digital music service Grooveshark sued by EMI

(Reuters) -

Grooveshark

has been sued by a vast

record association EMI Group Ltd

, that indicted a renouned

digital song service

of profitable no royalties given entering a chartering agreement to tide song scarcely 3 years ago.

EMI, that brought a universe such acts as a Beatles and Coldplay and is now being sole by

Citigroup Inc

, filed a censure opposite Grooveshark's parent,

Escape Media Group Inc

, on Wednesday in a New York state court.

The filing came reduction than a month after 3 other vital record companies - Vivendi SA's

UniversalMusic Group

,

Sony Corp

and

Warner Music Group

- filed a sovereign copyright lawsuit accusing Grooveshark of pirating thousands of songs.

Grooveshark mouthpiece Kristin Harris pronounced in an email: "This is a agreement brawl that we design to resolve."

The lawsuit was reported progressing by The New York Times.

In a complaint, EMI pronounced Grooveshark has concurred in essay or orally overdue royalties, though has conjunction paid anything nor supposing any accounting statements.

EMI pronounced Grooveshark has "continued to exploit" a works while ignoring steady final for an accounting and payment.

The censure refers to purported created and verbal estimates by Grooveshark that it owes during slightest $150,000, though EMI pronounced it believes a tangible sum "greatly exceeds" such estimates.

Grooveshark calls itself "the world's largest on-demand and song find service," with 30 million monthly active users, some-more than 15 million songs, and 14 billion streams a year.

It pronounced a process is to respect copyright holders' "takedown" requests that approve with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other germane egghead skill laws.

In November, Universal concluded during auction to buy EMI's available song pision for $1.9 billion, while Sony won a behest for EMI's song edition operations for $2.2 billion. Both purchases need regulatory approval.

Last May, operators of once renouned though now gone file-sharing use LimeWire, concluded to compensate record companies $105 million to finish a sovereign copyright transgression trial.

Grooveshark has offices in Gainesville, Florida.

The cases are EMI Entertainment World Inc v. Escape Media Group Inc, New York State Supreme Court, New York County, No. 650013/2012; and UMG Recording Inc et al v. Escape Media Group Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-08407.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; modifying by Bernard Orr and Andre Grenon)

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