An obscure firm referred to as Muvox LLC has filed a lawsuit in opposition to BMG in america for alleged patent infringement.
The lawsuit, which you’ll learn right here, was filed in a Texas courtroom final month and references a patent titled ‘Music streaming, playlist creation and streaming structure‘, which describes “a technique for choosing a track” based mostly on different songs with comparable “moods”.
As first reported right here by patent litigation info useful resource RPX, the lawsuit targets “track suggestion options” inside the BMG Synch service.
In response to a lawsuit filed in the identical Texas courtroom on August 21, the corporate suing BMG additionally seems to be suing expertise big IBM for alleged infringement of the identical patent.
The patent, which you’ll learn right here, describes “a system and methodology for making categorized music tracks accessible to end-user purposes”.
In response to the patent, “The tactic of declare 1, additional comprise[es] checking the a number of moods of the track in opposition to not less than one different temper identification approach for a stage of correlation between the a number of moods of the track and the a number of moods of the plurality of the opposite songs”.
An attachment titled ‘Exhibit 2′ (Exhibit 1 being the patent itself) was filed with the lawsuit in opposition to BMG. In it, the plaintiff seems to level to BMG’s Synch service because the purported supply of alleged infringement of components detailed within the patent.
Inside the doc, the plaintiff, Muvox, describes BMG Synch as “a digital platform that permits purchasers to license music for synchronization functions”, including that “it affords a listing of music from numerous artists, songwriters, and composers, offering a variety of genres and customers can search inside this catalogue, take heed to tracks, and so on.”
The ‘Exhibit 2’ attachment refers to BMG’s Synch service as “the accused instrumentality”, which, it provides “discloses a technique for choosing a track (e.g., choosing a selected track for the person specified temper).”
The patent cited within the lawsuit appears to be assigned to an organization referred to as Apperture Investments, Llc. The applying for the patent was filed in January 2023 and granted in February this yr.
Apperture Investments, Llc at present has round 15 patents both pending or energetic, starting from tech for “Streaming music categorization utilizing rhythm, texture and pitch” to “Music choice and group utilizing rhythm, texture and pitch”.
One of many inventors of the patent referred to within the lawsuit filed in opposition to BMG and IBM, Jacquelyn Fuzell-Casey, additionally seems to be listed because the inventor of a patent owned by Google for tech described in a submitting as a “list-based coupon system and strategies.”
Muvox LLC additionally accuses IBM of ripping off components of its patent that recommends music based mostly on the ‘temper’ of a track through the IBM Watson AI platform, and extra particularly through the Watson Beat, a “cognitive cloud-based app developed by machine studying” all the way in which again in 2016.
Inside the Exhibit 2 attachment filed with the lawsuit in opposition to IBM, Muvox claims that the platform the place the alleged infringement is happening “is a cognitive cloud-based music program developed utilizing AI and machine studying that makes use of musical notes to research moods and reproduce music based mostly on the recognized temper”.
BMG isn’t the primary music firm to be sued for alleged patent infringement in recent times. Final yr, main report labels Warner Music Group and Common Music Group have been hit with infringement lawsuits over 4 patents associated to ‘encoding and distributing digital content material’.
As reported by Bloomberg Legislation on the time, the lawsuits have been filed by Texas-based Blue Spike LLC in opposition to WMG in a New York courtroom and in opposition to UMG in a California courtroom.Music Enterprise Worldwide
