In finding LimeWire liable for copyright infringement, U.S. But this month’s ruling has put that effort in jeopardy. Since taking the helm at LimeWire, Searle has been working to strike licensing deals with the music industry to turn one of the most popular sources of pirated music into a legitimate music service. Searle co-founded ConneXus, where he developed a service that enabled consumers to use their mobile phones to identify and purchase songs played on the radio.
Before joining LimeWire in 2007, he was CEO of Mediaguide, an airplay monitoring service jointly owned by ASCAP and marketing company ConneXus. Searle isn’t the kind of person one would expect to see leading a legally challenged P2P network. “It kind of felt like my first birthday, the way I came into this world-getting slapped,” Searle quips. On May 12, the same day that LimeWire CEO George Searle turned 46, a federal judge found the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing service and founder/chairman Mark Gorton liable for copyright infringement (Billboard, May 22). Despite losing in court, the peer-to-peer executive says he still wants to work with labels.
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