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Et Tu Brute? EMI to Sue AOL Over Musical Infringement

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-an-opera dept.

QGambit writes "Salon.com is running an AP story about EMI Music suing AOL Time Warner for using songs from its music catalog on TBS and the AOL service without paying for them."EMI's publishing unit contends that AOL Time Warner is illegally using songs for promotional purposes from "The Wizard of Oz," "Singin' in the Rain," and other classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies." Good. Now that they are turning on themselves, they will leave us alone for awhile."

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  1. Don't worry... by eparusel · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I'm sure there are plenty of lawyers to go around...

  2. I don't think so... by Skirwan · · Score: 5, Funny
    Good. Now that they are turning on themselves, they will leave us alone for awhile.
    I'm pretty sure that most individual lawyers aren't multithreaded, but a massively parallel system like the legal department at EMI or AOL/TW has got to be able to do more than one thing at a time.

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    1. Re:I don't think so... by jukal · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, more than one thing at a time, but remember the common design flaws in a distributed system: cumulating lag, reliability of nodes, communicational problems, congestion, diversity. What happens when that specialist every lawyer needs to understand a word, turns out to be a cocaine junkie and hears voices while meanwhile everyone runs into to the companys coffee shop and asks for that something special resulting in a congestion in the sewer network. Ohh now I am beginning to understand, is it that why an average court case takes a few years and costs a dozen millions.

  3. ever heard of multitasking ? by ramzak2k · · Score: 1, Funny

    they will take on you , AOL , and your teenager all at the same time.

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  4. Seems I read somewhere by thumbtack · · Score: 4, Funny

    that sharks sometimes attack each other when in a feeding frenzy....

  5. It�s still our fault!!! by DaHat · · Score: 5, Funny

    All of us are to blame because we watch, if our tv's would prevent the viewing of unauthorized pieces of music then none of this would ever have happened. This is why we need DRM to keep us from being forced to listen to/see illegal broadcasts!

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  6. Fighting words by achurch · · Score: 3, Funny
    For some reason, this quote sent me into fits of laughter:
    "We believe that AOL Time Warner, and a whole bunch of their companies, have been rampantly using our copyrighted material without licensing it or paying for it," said Martin Bandier, chairman and chief executive of EMI Music Publishing.
  7. Godzilla vs Mothra by x1048576 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now that they are turning on themselves, they will leave us alone for awhile
    Didn't you notice that when Godzilla and Mothra fight, Tokyo gets trashed anyway?