Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview"

the simurgh writes As the controversy surrounding Sony's handling of its hack, the movie The Interview and its aftermath continues, a singer is claiming that after failing to reach terms with Sony, the company put her music in the movie anyway. Yoon Mi-rae (real name Natasha Shanta Reid) is a U.S.-born hip hop and R&B singer who currently releases music on the Feel Ghood Music label. Sshe and her label claim that her track we learned that the track 'Pay Day' has been used without permission, legal procedure, or contracts.

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*sigh*

[L. J. Beauregard]

http://angryflower.com/itsits....

Re:*sigh*

[sribe]

Maybe this is a flaw with the English language. After all "its" vs "it's" conflicts with multiple rules of the language.

And yet, it is completely consistent with other pronouns (the most closely related other words and therefore the most logical rules to apply), and dead simple to remember:

his hers its

he's she's it's

Re:Sauce for the goose

[houghi]

So now we know why they didn't want the movie to be shown.

And isn't is per violation, not per sale. So they must pay for the billions of illegal downloads that get the song as well. They were the ones distributing it.

But in reality what will happen will that either they win (After all it is their law. They bought it fair and square.) or they settle out of court. This will be some minor sum in the 6 figures and the deal never to talk about it. Then it will go to another court where Sony will claim the money back.
After a few years the artis will give up or re-settles for an extreme low amount. (5 figures that she will need to pay the lawers AND give up her rights in the process.)

Re:What's the timecode?

[tysonedwards]

No idea where the song is in the movie, but I've just verified that it's listed in the credits at 1h51m10s. It's stated as her performance, by her production company. As such, if they didn't actually pay for the rights, that's an extremely baller move as it presents zero ambiguity that it was known as her work and the company they'd need to get the rights from by everyone involved.

Oh look, aonther poorly edited Slashdot summary!

[wonkey_monkey]

As the controversy surrounding Sony's handling of it's hack, the movie The Interview and it's aftermath continues

"It's"? Good job. Pretty poorly punctuated and written all round, in fact.

she and her label claim that her track we learned that the track

timothy, what do you do, exactly?