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Pink Floyd Beats EMI in Creativity Flap
Pink Floyd prevailed Thursday in a legal brawl with its label when a British judge ordered EMI to stop selling individual downloads of the acid-inspired group’s songs without permission. The artists behind The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall , and other top sellers claimed its decade-old contract with EMI required the band’s music to be sold as an entire album, not as single tracks in which EMI has permitted iTunes to distribute. High Court of Justice Judge Andrew Morritt of London agreed, ruling the 1999 agreement with EMI was crafted to “ preserve the artistic integrity of the albums.” Pink Floyd said its musical craft surrounding concept albums was being misrepresented when sold in singles.
Continue reading »Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
Pink Floyd and its label, EMI, are battling over online royalties stemming from a contested clause in their decade-old contract. The developer of “The Dark Side of the Moon” and other top-selling albums claims its contract with EMI requires its music to be sold as an entire album, not single tracks that EMI has permitted iTunes to distribute. The band’s attorney, Robert Howe, told a London Court on Tuesday that “It’s a matter of fact that the defendant has been permitting individual tracks to be downloaded online and that therefore they have been allowing albums not to be sold in their original configuration,” Howe said, Bloomberg News reported .
Continue reading »ACS:Law: ‘It’s Christmas. Time to sue’
2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: Blackmail tactics first popularised by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA are creating a cottage industry for unscrupulous lawyers and the people who hire them. The RIAA is a past master at firing off subpoenas and following them up with threatening ‘pay up or else’ letters. Yesterday, “The Video Protection Alliance (VPA) bills itself as a ‘fast, secure and convenient way to settle your copyright violations online’,” said p2pnet , going on: “It generously helps ‘you, the fan, identify copyright violations, pay a nominal settlement fee, and clear your record”’.
Continue reading »The Beatles and Their Antipiracy Request
The Beatles sell their music on 30,000 apple-shaped USB drives in FLAC 44.1KHz 24bit—higher than 16-bit CD quality—and 320Kbps MP3 files but worry about illegal file sharing Earlier this month we reported about digital music store BlueBeat being sued by EMI for releasing Beatles songs as Mp3s without a license. Since then the big record label has triumphed in court against the US site and all the matter is now water under the bridge but another issue is yet to be cleared – what exactly keeps The Beatles music unavailable over the big net? ArsTechnica has took on answering this question – founded in January 1968 by The Beatles themselves, Apple Corps Ltd.
Continue reading »The Rise and Fall of the RIAA: HBO
p2pnet news view Movies | RIAA:- The Rise and Fall of the RIAA may soon be immortalised in film. Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s once powerful extortion arm is slowly being relegated to obscurity now its sue’ em all campaign has been replaced by the global Three Strikes and You’re Off The Net scheme. But now, “HBO Films is developing a movie based on the book ‘Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age’ by music journalist Steve Knopper,” says the Hollywood Reporter , as Zeropaid points out.
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