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No Indie Sales Chart this week and maybe forever
I was about to work on the indie sales chart 5-2-07 but before I started, I checked the comments left on the IndieHQ site and the following one stuck out for obvious reasons. I am curious 1. why Nielson Soundscan cares about my very small blogsite and 2. I just publish the indie charts that are sent from me from various distributors. What are your thoughts? Jordan Baker (Mr. Pastepunk), please chime in and let me know your thoughts. I have no interest in getting involved in a lawsuit, but I think posting the indie sales chart is a valuable tool for bands and labels.
I am the attorney for Nielsen SoundScan (“SoundScan”), and it has recently come to our attention that your company, IndieHQ.COM, is publishing Nielsen SoundScan’s valuable proprietary data (“Data”) without any authorization or license from SoundScan. Specifically, your web site, indiehq.com, published the following Data on April 25, 2007, without permission:
THIS IS WHERE HE POSTED THE POST “INDIE SALES CHART 4-25-07″
Nielsen SoundScan’s Data is the valuable, exclusive, proprietary, copyrighted property of SoundScan and your organization’s blatant disregard of SoundScan’s ownership in and to the Data is a serious infringement of SoundScan’s intellectual property rights under Federal and State copyright laws, and can result in your organization paying statutory damages in excess of $150,000 per infringement.
Notice is hereby given that Nielsen SoundScan views this copyright infringement with the utmost seriousness and, unless you immediately cease and desist from using SoundScan’s Data, and confirm that you have, and will continue to desist from this and any other infringement of SoundScan’s rights in the future, SoundScan shall pursue all of its legal and equitable remedies against you.
Michael J. Duffy, Associate General Counsel, The Nielsen Company
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