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Napster To Be Sued By Grammy Producers
8 March 2001 | 0:00:00 GMT/UTC

Napster is having even more probelms, the producers of the Grammy Awards were hoping to release the Eminem/Elton John Stan duet to raise money for charity. The track was available to users of Napster just hours after the performance.

The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has said: "The day following the Grammy Awards, we were in the recording studio remixing all this stuff with the intention of putting it out [as a recording], only to find that all of the audio was already up on Napster, and there had been millions of downloads".

The academy filed suit on Tuesday (6 March 2001) in a federal court in San Francisco. Michael Greene, president of the NARAS said that the track may now never see a commerical release.

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