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defrogITEM: Pink Floyd scores a win over EMI in a court case under which the Floyd insisted that EMI can’t sell their music online as individual tracks.
It’s an interesting argument, actually – the Floyd have specified in their contract with EMI that their music can only be sold as albums, because a lot of their albums (and certainly the two most successful ones, Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall) are conceived and created as seamless interlinked songs comprising a whole.
EMI’s argument was that their contract didn’t include digital downloads, since it was written in 1999, back when digital music was basically illegal as far as the music labels were concerned.
The judge ruled that there’s no reason to assume the contract doesn’t include online music.
That doesn’t mean Pink Floyd won the whole case – that was just one aspect of it, apparently, so it's still ongoing. But for old codgers like me, it’s nice to see someone stand up for the album as a concept, especially in the name of artistic control. I like single tracks too, but some tracks aren’t meant to be played out of context. As an example, I have Dark Side of the Moon on the iPod, but it does not really work in shuffle mode.
On the other hand, actual singles like "Arnold Layne" work just fine.
So there you go.
Which one's Pink,
This is dF
It’s an interesting argument, actually – the Floyd have specified in their contract with EMI that their music can only be sold as albums, because a lot of their albums (and certainly the two most successful ones, Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall) are conceived and created as seamless interlinked songs comprising a whole.
EMI’s argument was that their contract didn’t include digital downloads, since it was written in 1999, back when digital music was basically illegal as far as the music labels were concerned.
The judge ruled that there’s no reason to assume the contract doesn’t include online music.
That doesn’t mean Pink Floyd won the whole case – that was just one aspect of it, apparently, so it's still ongoing. But for old codgers like me, it’s nice to see someone stand up for the album as a concept, especially in the name of artistic control. I like single tracks too, but some tracks aren’t meant to be played out of context. As an example, I have Dark Side of the Moon on the iPod, but it does not really work in shuffle mode.
On the other hand, actual singles like "Arnold Layne" work just fine.
So there you go.
Which one's Pink,
This is dF
