Pink Floyd win EMI court battle

Pink Floyd win EMI court battle over online sales

Pink Floyd have won a court battle with record label EMI over how their music is sold over the internet.

 Register Rock Legends EMI in 1967 sued the label over the decision to sell individual tracks online album.

EMI has been ordered to pay € 40,000 ($ 60,000) in the ratio between the cost of the procedure. Decision rules are labels that should be a fine or pay a lot more.

EMI is also prohibited from selling a Pink Floyd song online without permission from the bar.

The previous contract was signed, which showed before the download stores like iTunes, has been denied royalties for sales of digital invoices.

They mostly avoided the singles released during their career, but would rather listen to the fans of albums such as Dark of the Moon, which has sold over 35 million times.

Artistic control.

Weeks earlier, Robert Howe QC appear for the group, said the bar management found that the EMI album "no limits" of them should not be divided, that will "retain artistic control."

He said there was "very strange" if the band members can control how their music is to sell physical products, but "free of all restrictions on such sales are not online."

Elizabeth Jones QC appear on EMI, disagreed and said, save the word "band's contract," satisfied with what physical - suggest that for online sales. "

Not hear a bar, the Supreme Court decision today in London.

Problem of tracking people online sales is a very difficult for many artists want their album full results. Bar is not visible even so, if fans choose to buy and choose instead of the full set of music tracks. .

They believe that one reason why Beatles are - catalog of EMI - in the shops will not appear for download from iTunes.

Garth Brooks and AC / DC among others on the album they separated conflicting.