Pink Floyd Wins Legal Battle to Only Sell Full Albums Online "Pink Floyd has just won a legal battle with label EMI prohibiting their music from being sold as individual tracks. If you want to listen to Floyd, you'll be buying full albums."
"As of right now you can still grab individual tracks on iTunes, but that shouldn't last too long. So if you want Pigs On the Wing but not the rest of Animals, now's your last chance"
I really do like being able to buy individual songs, but agree that the artist should have the choice of how their music is sold. I do like that the judge ruled that the contract's line "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums" meant not just in the form of records as EMI was arguing.
We have to get better at separating the work from the medium. Newspapers moving from printing on dead trees to online doesn't mean the end of newspapers any more than the end of vinyl meant the end of music. And no, I don't mean to belittle the business model problems that medium changes involve.
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Sometimes I torture people when they want me to play a pop song, say Justin Timberlake's Bring Sexy Back, by making them listen to the rest of the album, also.
Also, I wonder if the British court ruling will affect the selling behavior in the US?
I would expect it to affect the US. This would have been Pink Floyds contract with EMI which is subject to British law and affects how EMI sells their albums to anyone.
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