{"id":417888,"date":"2010-03-11T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003150"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:44:53","slug":"court-rules-against-selling-pink-floyd-songs-separately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/417888","title":{"rendered":"Court Rules Against Selling Pink Floyd Songs Separately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/darkside-thumb-350x347-38027.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>In a legal decision that could have a ripple effect on the digital download market, a British court has ruled that record label EMI can <i>not<\/i> sell songs from Pink Floyd&#8217;s Dark Side of the Moon album as individual downloads or ringtones.<\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s attorneys had argued that the album, one of the biggest sellers in rock history, is only meant to be taken as a whole and that EMI&#8217;s selling of individual downloads violated a clause in their contract intended to &#8220;preserve the artistic integrity&#8221; of the album.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the judge ordered EMI to reimburse Pink Floyd approximately $90,000 in court costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news-briefs.ew.com\/2010\/03\/11\/pink-floyd-wins-court-battle\/\" >Pink Floyd wins court battle with label<\/a> [EW]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a legal decision that could have a ripple effect on the digital download market, a British court has ruled that record label EMI can not sell songs from Pink Floyd&#8217;s Dark Side of the Moon album as individual downloads or ringtones. The band&#8217;s attorneys had argued that the album, one of the biggest sellers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}