Facebook Bans Project Playlist

After repeated complaints from the The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Facebook has announced it will take down all playlists provided by Project Playlist.

Project Playlist is an online community where 40,000,000+ music fans create and share music playlists. For the past few years Project Playlist has enjoyed huge growth from their embedded playlist's with users from major social networks such as Myspace and Facebook.

Myspace took similar action against Project Playlist recently, blocking all playlist from their member profiles.

Facebook released the following statement this morning, "Our hope and expectation is that the parties can resolve their disagreements in a manner that satisfies the developer and copyright holder, that continues to offer a great experience to music fans, and that doesn't discourage other developers from using Platform to share their creativity and test new ideas."

Project Playlist CEO Jeremy Riney released this statement on his blog, "We are working hard to get our widgets back up on user profiles across these social networking sites as quickly as possible so our users can continue to share music with their friends. Until then, your playlists are not lost and you can still share them - they remain available here on Playlist.com, where you can continue to search for music, create and play new playlists."

On Monday, Sony BMG and Project Playlist agreed to a licensing agreement which will make available Sony's entire catalog of artists which include the likes of Britney Spears, Beyonce and many more.