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Sometimes it seems like porn studios can get away with practically anything—that is, unless they are using popular music in ways that the major music labels don’t approve of. Warner Bros. and 10 other music labels have banded together and filed suit against porn purveyors RK Netmedia and RealityKings.com for allegedly using unlicensed music in “hundreds of extreme hardcore pornographic videos.” The labels want $150,000 per violation—of which there are many cited in the complaint—but RK Netmedia says it should all be covered under fair use.

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