Village People Suing Sweden
The Village People plan to take a number of Swedes and a Swedish website to court for allowing users to download their songs without permission — if they can work out whom to sue, their lawyer said on Friday.
“We have not yet decided whom the case is going to be directed against,” lawyer Lars Sandberg told AFP, adding though that the targets are likely to be “four people (already) charged as well as firms linked to the site.”
Sandberg has been hired on behalf of the US musicians by British law firm Web Sheriff, which wants to claim “several million dollars” in damages in both Sweden and the United States, he said.
In March Swedish prosecutors charged four people they believed to be behind the site. The music industry has been engaged in a battle for many years to stop people downloading songs on the Internet for free.
(AP)
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