Filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the suit says MP3.com retained Cooley in October 1999 to secure an opinion on the legality of launching its My.MP3.com service.

The service allowed consumers to listen to and download CD tracks off the Internet. MP3.com copied thousands of recordings onto its computer servers and claimed “fair use” of the CDs since only those who already owned a particular CD could access it through the service.

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