Eminem’s music publisher filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Apple Computer Inc. on Monday, alleging the computer giant violated copyrights by allowing unauthorized downloads of the Detroit rapper’s songs onto iPods….
A “burning issue” in the music industry today is whether the rights record labels hold to sell a recording artist’s CDs include the rights to authorize music downloads, or whether further permission is needed from the music publishers who hold the copyrights to the lyrics and sheet music.
Burning issue. Heh. They make jokes like that in Detroit? Anyway, yes, this is hot.
UPDATE: On the eve of trial — really! — they settled.
Originally posted 2011-05-10 22:45:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
