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Sony/ATV Music Publishing has instructed the Harry Fox Agency today to stop all future licensing of any of the publisher's repertoire for streaming or limited downloads, Billboard.biz has learned.

The instruction is expected to impact services like RealNetwork's Rhapsody, Napster and MediaNet (formerly known as MusicNet). It also raises the question of whether a service that offers a stream or a limited download of any of the publisher's songs released on records after today would be intentionally infringing the publisher's copyrights.

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