An obscure firm known as Muvox LLC has filed a lawsuit towards BMG in the US for alleged patent infringement.
The lawsuit, which you’ll be able to 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” primarily based on different songs with related “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 line with a lawsuit filed in the identical Texas courtroom on August 21, the corporate suing BMG additionally seems to be suing know-how big IBM for alleged infringement of the identical patent.
The patent, which you’ll be able to learn right here, describes “a system and technique for making categorized music tracks out there to end-user purposes”.
In line with the patent, “The strategy of declare 1, additional comprise[es] checking the a number of moods of the track towards at the least one different temper identification approach for a degree 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 towards BMG. In it, the plaintiff seems to level to BMG’s Synch service because the purported supply of alleged infringement of parts detailed within the patent.
Throughout the doc, the plaintiff, Muvox, describes BMG Synch as “a digital platform that permits shoppers to license music for synchronization functions”, including that “it gives a list 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 many others.”
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 consumer specified temper).”
The patent cited within the lawsuit appears to be assigned to an organization known as Apperture Investments, Llc. The applying for the patent was filed in January 2023 and granted in February this yr.
Apperture Investments, Llc presently has round 15 patents both pending or lively, 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 towards 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 parts of its patent that recommends music primarily based on the ‘temper’ of a track by way of the IBM Watson AI platform, and extra particularly by way of the Watson Beat, a “cognitive cloud-based app developed by machine studying” all the best way again in 2016.
Throughout the Exhibit 2 attachment filed with the lawsuit towards IBM, Muvox claims that the platform the place the alleged infringement is going down “is a cognitive cloud-based music program developed utilizing AI and machine studying that makes use of musical notes to investigate moods and reproduce music primarily based 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 Regulation on the time, the lawsuits have been filed by Texas-based Blue Spike LLC towards WMG in a New York courtroom and towards UMG in a California courtroom.Music Enterprise Worldwide
