More legal headaches for music search engine Seeqpod, with EMI and Capitol Records filing a lawsuit against it, becoming the second major label to do so following Warner Music Group, which sued the site in January last year.However, the new suit doesn't just name Seeqpod as a defendant – it specifically lists CEO Kasian Franks and investors Raf Podowski and Shekhar Lodha as individuals.How this tactic plays in court remains to be seen – in October last year EMI tried a similar strategy by naming MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson in its lawsuit against that company, but the personal suit was dismissed before the case made it to court.
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