The Allman Brother Band and Cheap Trick have hit Sony BMG with a federal lawsuit accusing it of cheating the bands out of royalties.
Only a few months removed from the PR nightmare Sony BMG created for itself with the placement of rootkit software on music CDs as part of a DRM package, the music label again finds itself the target of lawsuits.
This time, it is a pair of older bands that have taken issue with Sony BMG. Since both Cheap Trick and the Allman Brothers signed contracts many years ahead of the invention of the World Wide Web, let alone digital music, those bands lose royalties to the label due to calculations of the cost of packaging, the Wall Street Journal Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web |
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