Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments

Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments
This latter argument has been deeply felt by AC/DC, which refuses to allow its work to be sold via iTunes.Pink Floyd's lawyer claimed that EMI's reading of its contract with the band is that a prohibition against unbundling applies only to the physical product--not to the virtual paradise occupied by online sales. This does seem a little odd. Naturally, all of this legal entertainment has cash at its core. And the contract was signed in 1998 and 1999, when Prince was still cool and the iTunes money tree had not even been planted. EMI lawyer Elizabeth Jones told Bloomberg: "I can't say it's obvious from the agreement what the commercial intent of the parties was. I'm sure the claimants would have liked to protect their records and EMI would have liked to have had full control to exploit."Which sounds dangerously like a rather deadpanned disregard for Floyd's artistic heritage. For anyone who was brought up with albums, it's sometimes hard to accept that individual songs can exist outside of the original conception. Somehow, there are albums for which the crappy tracks serve as a necessary counterpoint to the more wondrous efforts.Now, thanks to a lawsuit that was filed last year, it will be up to a judge to be the atom heart mother between these two squabbling brethren. What are the chances he is a Floyd fan? I mean, most judges are in their 60s, aren't they?Update, 4:30 p.m. PST: Added comment from EMI.