By C1 Staff
LOS ANGELES — Several record companies are suing companies that they say make illegal copies of mixtapes with songs they don’t have permission to distribute.
Firms like Access Securepak specialize in prison-approved shipments that can pass security screenings, reports FOX News.
Though the companies claim that their packages cut down on contraband inside facilities, the music producers consider the illegal CDs contraband in and of themselves.
Access Securepack contracts with other companies to burn and ship the CDs, but do so without permission from producers.
The lawsuit claims $150,000 in damages per song, and plaintiffs also want the companies to say how much they’ve made selling the CDs.
“Defendants boast on their website that their business ‘was developed to eliminate contraband,’” the suit claims, “yet the infringing copies of Plaintiffs’ sound recordings and musical compositions, in which Defendants unlawfully transact and from which they unjustly profit, are contraband personified.”