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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. They smell death in Atlanta... by E-Rock-23 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    EMI knows that AOL-TW is in the hurt locker big time. They want to kill the jolly "You've got spam" giant and move themselves into position to take AOL's chunk of the communications pie. This would make EMI a direct rival to companies like Disney. With Enron well on its way to the treatment plant, WorldComm swirling it's way down the bolw with the other terds, and now an AOL-sized "crap-on-deck," what's next?

    I'll only be happy when Microsoft bows out or gets its act together...

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