Jay-Z album has leaked on MySpace.com

Def Jam’s parent company Universal Music Group has filed a lawsuit against MySpace’s parent company News Corp. after the new Jay-Z album "Kingdom Come" leaked onto the networking website last week.

In the lawsuit filed last Friday (November 17) it is claimed the site is guilty of copyright infringement adding that the album’s sales have been seriously affected after the entire album became available on MySpace, resulting in widespread illegal downloading.
"I’m sure it’s cut into our sales, and not by a small amount. Even if it (sells) a million units it’s not what it should have been," Def Jam chairman Antonio "LA" Reid told AllHipHop.com.

Prior to the leak Universal and MySpace were in negotiations for News Corp. to pay a licensing fee to Universal for use of any of their content. Talks crumbled when UMG requested News Corp. pay for any material that had appeared on the site previously.

UMG is seeking $150,000 in damages for each of the 58 songs and videos that MySpace are said to have infringed copyrights on.