A little-known company called Muvox LLC filed a patent infringement lawsuit against BMG in the United States.
The lawsuit, which you can read here , was filed in a Texas court last month and cites a lawsuit called “Music streaming, playlist creation and streaming architecture‘, which describes a “method of selecting songs” based on other songs with a similar “mood”.
As first reported by RPX, a patent litigation information resource, the lawsuit targets the “song recommendation function” in the BMG Synch service.
According to a lawsuit filed in the same Texas court on August 21, it appears that the company suing BMG is also suing tech giant IBM for allegedly infringing on the same patent.
The patent, which you can read here, describes “a system and method for making classified music tracks available to end-user applications.”
According to the patent, “The method of claim 1, further comprising[es] A control group of at least one other emotion recognition technology examines one or more emotions of a song to determine the level of correlation between the one or more emotions of the song and the one or more emotions of multiple other songs.”
An attachment titled “Exhibit 2” (Exhibit 1 is the patent itself) was filed with the lawsuit against BMG. In it, the plaintiff appears to point to BMG’s Synch service as the alleged source of elements detailed in the allegedly infringed patent.
In the filing, plaintiff Muvox describes BMG Synch as “a digital platform that allows customers to license music for synchronization purposes,” adding that “it provides a broad catalog of music from various artists, songwriters and composers, providing Genres and users can search, listen to tracks, etc. in this directory.
The “Exhibit 2” attachment refers to BMG’s sync service as “the alleged tool,” adding that it “discloses a method for selecting songs (e.g., selecting a specific song for a user-specified mood).”
The patent cited in the lawsuit appears to have been assigned to a company called Apperture Investments, Llc. The patent application was submitted in January 2023 and authorized in February this year.
Apperture Investments, Llc currently has approximately 15 pending or valid patents covering technology, “Categorizing streaming music using rhythm, texture, and pitch” arrive “Music selection and organization using rhythm, structure and pitch”.
Jacquelyn Fuzell-Casey, one of the patent inventors named in the lawsuit against BMG and IBM, also appears to be listed as an inventor on a patent owned by Google that is described in one filing as “List-based couponing.” “Systems and methods. “
Muvox LLC also accuses IBM of plagiarizing portions of its patent, which uses the IBM Watson AI platform, and more specifically Watson Beat, a cognitive cloud-based application developed with machine learning to create music based on music. “Mood” recommends music. ” The time goes back to 2016.
In Attachment 2 filed in the lawsuit against IBM, Muvox claimed that the platform on which the alleged infringement occurred “is a cognitive cloud-based music program developed using artificial intelligence and machine learning that uses musical notes to analyze emotions and reproduce music based on music.” In terms of definite emotions”.
BMG is not the first music company to be sued over alleged patent infringement in recent years. Last year, major record labels Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group were hit with infringement lawsuits over four patents related to “encoding and distributing digital content.”
It is reported Bloomberg method At the time, Texas-based Blue Spike LLC filed suit against WMG in a New York court and UMG in a California court.global music business
