After months of rumors and posturing by big record labels and the like, legal action has finally been taken against Soundcloud for thousands of counts of copyright infringement.
The suit was brought against Soundcloud by PRS for Music, a royalties collection agency based in the UK. Essentially, PRS is claiming that Soundcloud does not pay any royalties on the music hosted on its site, which is of course a huge problem for the thousands of artists that the organization represents. In a letter to Soundcloud, the organization pointed to 4,500 different works which people can listen to on Soundcloud that are not properly licensed. 4,500 is likely just a fraction of the millions of unlicensed songs, samples, remixes and mashups that are streamed for free on a daily basis on the site, but it’s enough to make a case.

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