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E-Data goes after Microsoft music service
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“For the past 8 years E-Data has been terrorizing just about who ever it can with a single broad patent claim that it owns the rights to virtually any technology that allows a product to be downloaded to a kiosk and copied.
After various false starts from 1995 onwards it won an appeal case against Compuserve in the US in 1999. Now it is coming after European companies that download music, video or software programs to kiosks, that need to be written onto separate media.
It’s latest move suggests that the online music distribution deal between Microsoft and On Demand Distribution, in conjunction with ISP Tiscali, breaches what it known as its ‘Freeney‘ patent.”