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Warner Chappell Apology For PearLyrics

Posted by Zonk on from the now-we-can-eat-fruit-again dept.

RacerZero writes "The recent Slashdot story Music Should Be Heard But Not Understood sparked a good deal of discussion about the overreaction of music industry heavyweights. This week Wired is running an apology from Warner Chappel music for their poor judgement. From the article: 'Facing an upswell of protest, Warner Chappell Music on Friday formally apologized to Walter Ritter over a letter it sent to the software programmer earlier this month targeting a helper application for Apple's iTunes called pearLyrics.'"

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  1. Re:Music Industry Apologizes? by Eraser_ · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Putting Bill Gates right on up there with Adolph Hitler. ;-)

    http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101390102 ,00.html?internalid=ACV