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News agency Reuters reports that Pink Floyd today took legal action against its long-time record label EMI. The point of contention is EMI’s online sales of individual Floyd tracks and royalty calculations of the same.

Floyd attorney Robert Howe told London’s High Court the band has contractual protection against EMI’s selling of its tracks piecemeal, a practice known as “unbundling.”

According to Howe, EMI believes that agreement is limited to “physical product and doesn’t apply online.”

Floyd’s back catalog is the second most popular in the world, next to The Beatles’.

As we reported previously, the March 21 episode of CBS-TV’s “Cold Case” will feature several songs by Pink Floyd.

Today, Capitol/EMI, the band’s label, released more details about the broadcast.

In the episode, titled “Flashover,” the missing Nick Vera (Jeremy Ratchford) is concerned team members realize he’s finally hit rock bottom and hopes a new twist to a 2006 arson case, which Vera was secretly obsessing about in recent weeks, might supply quick leads to his whereabouts.

Glenn Morshower (“24”) plays a fire marshal who partnered with Vera on the arson/homicide case in 2006, and Patrick Gallagher (“Glee”) portrays a bartender at a bar where Vera’s recently become a regular.

The episode was written by Greg Plageman, one of the series’ executive producers, and was directed by Jeannot Szwarc.

“Pink Floyd’s music is so sonically and texturally rich it demands your attention, and nothing about this episode is lean-back television,” said Plageman. “The Floyd tracks we chose seem to perfectly complement the slide of Detective Nick Vera into a personal abyss.

“We also love that one of their most famous album covers, ‘Wish You Were Here’ — of two men on fire shaking hands (Actually only one is on fire -fs) — was shot right here on the Warner Bros. Lot 35 years ago, right next to our actual ‘Cold Case’ soundstages.

“So, we thought that it would be great symmetry to play the title track over the final montage.”

Past music-themed episodes of “Cold Case” have featured the music of Ray Charles, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Tim McGraw, U2, Bob Dylan, Santana, Bob Seger, The Doors and Pearl Jam.

Pink Floyd fans know it best as that dark, hulking presence underneath the floating pig on the cover of the 1977 “Animals” album.

Londoners have come to know it as an eyesore — albeit, an historic one.

But the Battersea Power Station, out of commission since 1983, might be another step closer to a new life as a center for housing, office and retail space.

A whopping $8.2 billion redevelopment plan set forth by architect Rafael Vinoly has received approval by London mayor Boris Johnson, and the U.K.’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. The proposal is now being reviewed by the city’s planning department.

If it goes forward, the plan would include 3,700 homes, 1.6 million square feet of office space, 500,000 square feet of retail space, and an environmentally-friendly carbon-free power plant built underground.

Battersea has to be one of the only decommissioned power plants in the world with its own Web site and newsletter.

These architectural renderings come from the Rafael Vinoly Architects PC Web site.

According to the Pink Floyd Facebook page, CBS-TV will air a Pink Floyd-themed episode of “Cold Case” on Sunday, March 21.

The previously-reported date of March 14 was incorrect.

The episode, titled “Flashover,” will include extracts of seven Floyd songs: “Comfortably Numb,” “Hey You,” “Mother,” “Marooned,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Time” and “The Thin Ice.”

The 60-minute show airs at 10 p.m. EST. Set your DVR …