{"id":2177,"date":"2010-12-14T20:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T00:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2010-12-14T20:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T00:27:28","slug":"court-sides-with-floyd-on-single-song-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2010\/12\/court-sides-with-floyd-on-single-song-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Court sides with Floyd on single song sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British Court of Appeal has effectively sided with Pink Floyd when it said the band’s individual songs cannot be sold against its wishes.<\/p>\n

This afternoon the court dismissed an appeal by record label EMI, which had appealed a High Court decision on the matter.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the band had argued Floyd’s 1999 contract with EMI prohibited the selling of individual tracks, something much more common with the advent of digital downloads.<\/p>\n

Read more in our March 9 post: “Pink Floyd sues EMI over online sales<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The British Court of Appeal has effectively sided with Pink Floyd when it said the band’s individual songs cannot be sold against its wishes. This afternoon the court dismissed an appeal by record label EMI, which had appealed a High Court decision on the matter. Lawyers for the band had argued Floyd’s 1999 contract with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}