legalquestion12
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Ohio
I run a music blog site. We post new music, news, videos, etc. The other day, there was a song we posted that unknowing to us had been illegally leaked early. We were accused via email by the label for leaking it which we did not. The entire album was leaked by a third party source, thus the songs on it started to spread around the internet. When the song reached us, we thought it was legally out. They are trying to accuse of of not only leaking the song, but also leaking the album which there is 0 proof of because we did not do either. We even did some research and provided him the information as to where the album originally leaked, but the guy from the record label has since emailed us an informal invoice for a ridiculous amount of money. He is claiming we are responsible for a ludicrous amount of single downloads, and a ludicrous amount of full album downloads. We did have the single in question posted on our site for a bout 15 minutes, and we promptly removed it upon receiving the first email from the label which said "if this isn't removed immediately you should expect legal action". Shortly after that, somebody else from the label emailed us accusing us of leaking the material. There is absolutely nothing to back his claims on the amount of singles he's saying we're responsible for, he is just pulling a number. As far as the accusation of the albums, that in no way was connected to our site. We did not upload, download, post, or link to anything regarding that album, but he is somehow claiming we are responsible.
Does he have a case? As of right now, he's illegally trying to extort money the way I see it. He has nothing to back the amount he's claiming we are responsible for, and I believe he might just be trying to scare us. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I run a music blog site. We post new music, news, videos, etc. The other day, there was a song we posted that unknowing to us had been illegally leaked early. We were accused via email by the label for leaking it which we did not. The entire album was leaked by a third party source, thus the songs on it started to spread around the internet. When the song reached us, we thought it was legally out. They are trying to accuse of of not only leaking the song, but also leaking the album which there is 0 proof of because we did not do either. We even did some research and provided him the information as to where the album originally leaked, but the guy from the record label has since emailed us an informal invoice for a ridiculous amount of money. He is claiming we are responsible for a ludicrous amount of single downloads, and a ludicrous amount of full album downloads. We did have the single in question posted on our site for a bout 15 minutes, and we promptly removed it upon receiving the first email from the label which said "if this isn't removed immediately you should expect legal action". Shortly after that, somebody else from the label emailed us accusing us of leaking the material. There is absolutely nothing to back his claims on the amount of singles he's saying we're responsible for, he is just pulling a number. As far as the accusation of the albums, that in no way was connected to our site. We did not upload, download, post, or link to anything regarding that album, but he is somehow claiming we are responsible.
Does he have a case? As of right now, he's illegally trying to extort money the way I see it. He has nothing to back the amount he's claiming we are responsible for, and I believe he might just be trying to scare us. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
