Eminems Music Publisher Sues Apple
In a move that will anger the RIAA, Eminem’s music publisher has decided to sue Apple for illegally selling his music on I-tunes. The premise is that his label Universal Music Group worked out an agreement with Apple, unfortunately for them Eight Mile Style, Eminem’s publisher owns the rights to the music.
Apparently the record labels get paid 70 of the 99 cents you pay for a song, while the publisher only gets 5 cents.
It does seem partially unfair until you take into account the publisher will own the music if the artist left the label and could sell the catalogue for millions or license out songs individually for even more.
The biggest loser in this lawsuit I feel is not necessarily Apple who will probably get sued by every music publisher, but the RIAA.
They have spent millions suing random people for downloading music, now a legitimate store is getting sued.
What kind of message is this sending?
“People who download music may be in the wrong, but the places that are selling that are just as criminal.”
This is definitely going to make an already thin line thinner.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:33 am
I love the post title, lol.
August 16th, 2007 at 7:47 am
and who would want to sue apple?