MOSCOW court has thrown out a case against the former head of music download site allofmp3.com and rejected the damages claims made by three major recording labels. Allofmp3.com, which was closed in late June but reopened later under a similar name, has been cast as the epitome of Russia’s shoddy copyright enforcement and repeatedly held up by US trade negotiators as imperilling Moscow’s bid to join the World Trade Organisation. Recording companies argued that Mediaservices, which runs the sites, has never had permission to sell their artists’ works.
