SeeqPod

Infobox_Company
company_name = SeeqPod, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = Playable Search
foundation = July, 2005
location = flagicon|USAEmeryville, CA US
key_people = Kasian Franks, Founder Raf Podowski, Founder
Shekhar Lodha, Founder
industry = Search engine
products =
num_employees =
homepage = [http://www.seeqpod.com/ www.seeqpod.com]

SeeqPod is a search engine specifically for indexing and finding playable search results including audio, video & podcasts that are publicly accessible on the World Wide Web. [ [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/seeqpod_music_and_recommendati.php ReadWriteWeb - SeeqPod Music and Recommendation Search Engine] ] It reportedly has an index of 8 million songs. [ [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/music-search-engines-tread-fine-legal-line/ TechCrunch - Music Search Engines Tread Fine Legal Line] ]

While SeeqPod claims its music search technology is legal because it doesn't actually host any files (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has a provision that protects search engines from charges of copyright infringement when they return potentially infringing results), the search engine has been sued by Warner Music Group, arguing in part that "SeeqPod searches for a particular type of content -- music -- that SeeqPod knows is overwhelmingly copyrighted. The results that SeeqPod returns are links -- many of which SeeqPod itself solicits from users -- to sites containing unauthorized and illegal copies of copyrighted music." [ [http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/01/warner-music-gr.html Warner Music Group's Complaint against SeeqPod] , Listening Post from Wired.com, EmailJanuary 25, 2008. ]

References

External links

* [http://www.seeqpod.com/ SeeqPod]
* [http://www.seeqpod.com/m SeeqPod Mobile]
* [http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/8002/seeqpod.html SeeqPod Suit Thoughts] - Comments on Warner Music Group's lawsuit against SeeqPod
* [http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139855-page,2-c,streamingmedia/article.html PC World - Five Ways to Share Music Without Getting Sued]
* [http://www.macworld.com/article/131144/2007/12/seeqpod.html Macworld - Seeq and ye shall find]
* [http://www.programmableweb.com/api/seeqpod Programmable Web - SeeqPod API]
* [http://mashable.com/2007/07/02/seeqpod/ Mashable - SeeqPod is an Active Music Search & Discovery Tool]
* [http://www.rdmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014&ACCT=1400000100&ISSUE=0807&RELTYPE=R100&PRODCODE=00000000&PRODLETT=XK&CommonCount=0/ R&D Awards List 2008]