{"id":986,"date":"2010-03-11T11:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=986"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:08:46","slug":"court-sides-with-floyd-over-online-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2010\/03\/court-sides-with-floyd-over-online-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Court sides with Floyd over online sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>BBC<\/strong> reports the English High Court has decided in favor of <strong>Pink Floyd <\/strong>in a dispute the band has been engaged in with its long-time record label <strong>EMI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is whether the label has the right to sell Floyd&#8217;s tracks individually online. The ruling could remove Floyd&#8217;s catalog from the iTunes Music Store and  the like.<\/p>\n<p>The band had maintained its contract prohibits EMI from selling its tracks piecemeal without band permission, and this contract, agreed upon before the advent of MP3, included online sales.<\/p>\n<p>EMI disagreed, saying the word &#8220;record&#8221; in the contract meant a physical thing that didn&#8217;t apply to digital files sold online.<\/p>\n<p>The court today sided with the band, which wasn&#8217;t present to hear the ruling, saying the contract guarantees to preserve the &#8220;artistic integrity&#8221; of the band&#8217;s albums, which prevented so-called &#8220;unbundled&#8221; sales of individual tracks without the Floyd&#8217;s say-so.<\/p>\n<p>EMI has been ordered to pay $60,000, but, in a statement, said, &#8220;Today&#8217;s judgment does not require EMI to cease making Pink Floyd&#8217;s  catalogue available as single track downloads, and EMI continues to sell  Pink Floyd&#8217;s music digitally and in other formats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This latest court ruling is part of a much larger long-running dispute between the band and label over approximately $15 million in allegedly unpaid royalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports the English High Court has decided in favor of Pink Floyd in a dispute the band has been engaged in with its long-time record label EMI. At issue is whether the label has the right to sell Floyd&#8217;s tracks individually online. The ruling could remove Floyd&#8217;s catalog from the iTunes Music Store [&hellip;]<\/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-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}