RIAA goes after NFT music web site HitPiece | Engadget

HitPiece could have already shut down its web site after a number of artists spoke up about their work getting used with out their permission, however the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is not letting it off the hook. The group has despatched the lawyer representing HitPiece a letter demanding the web site and its founders to cease infringing on music IPs, to offer a whole listing of web site actions and to account for all NFTs that had been auctioned off. It additionally desires to know the way a lot the web site earned. HitPiece founder Rory Felton beforehand stated that artists will receives a commission for offered digital items which might be related to them, however the artists who spoke up are skeptical that they will get something.

In the letter, the group repeatedly referred to as HitPiece a rip-off operation designed to take advantage of followers. RIAA’s Chief Legal Officer Ken Doroshow stated it used “buzzwords and jargon” to cover the truth that it did not acquire the rights it wants and to make followers imagine they had been buying an article genuinely related to an artist. Doroshow added: “While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don’t simply resume their scams under another name.”

Although HitPiece branded itself as a platform for music NFTs, its founders claimed that it did not really promote any sound information. The RIAA argues, nevertheless, that it nonetheless used artists’ title, photographs and copyrighted album artwork. Further, if it really did not promote any sound information, the RIAA says that “likely amounts to yet another form of fraud.”