Useless Fact Of The Week

Did you know that "EMI" (EMI Music Group) stands for Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. ? The company was formed in March 1931  from a merger between UK Columbia Graphophone Company and Gramophone Company. 

Consumed Links

Time for another round-up of things that you may have missed around the internet....


A woman in Florida is suing IHOP. The reason? How about something a little extra in her salad like a finger? The proof is in the pictures... - SG


One of my favorite magazines, XLR8R recently did an interview with Pete Hahn , the creative director of retailer Turntable Lab - xlr8r


Billboard gave five mantras for the new music business - billboard 


And finally, for now, Damian Kulash Jr., the lead singer of the band OK Go, recently contributed and article in The New York Times to discuss his bands videos vs the bands label, EMI. - nyt


Happy Reading!

It Is Like They Said

As things continue to move along at such a rapid rate it can sometimes be hard to keep up. Here are a few things that some of you may have missed recently.


A Kurt Cobain biopic will happen? Billboard.com is reporting that Oren Moverman, the director of the movie, "The Messenger", is set to direct with David Benioff screen-writing. --- BILLBOARD


The 1938 debut comic of Superman sells for quite the pretty penny recently..-- MSN


Did you hear about that burglar who left a trail that made it quite easy for the police to find him? --- UPI


What's going on over at EMI??? Was Guy Hands trying to break it up? --- BBC

EMI Has Lost Touch????

"Music is in demand and the demand is growing all the time, but we've clearly lost touch with our consumers. I passionately believe that if we listen to our consumers, this gap will become our opportunity."



Check out the article here @ techdirt:



EMI's CEO ADMITS COMPANY 'LOST TOUCH'.......

Lawsuit: Manu Dibango

Cameroonian singer Manu Dibango filed a lawsuit in Paris against Pop artists Rihanna and Michael Jackson over a hook from his 1972 song, "Soul Makossa", being sampled without his permission. He is reportedly seeking 500,000 euros (approx. 641,000USD) in damages.


Jackson had accepted that the parts of the track were used on his "Wanna Be Starting Something" from the "Thriller" album and the singers reached a financial aggreement.


However, Rihanna obtained permission in 2007 to use on her hit single, "Don't Stop The Music", without contacting the original artist.


Dibango's lawyers have seperately asked the French courts to block labels, EMI, Warner, and SonyBMG (now Sony Music Entertainment) from recieving any income from the records until the matter is settled.


French judges are to decide if the 75-year-old Dibango's case will be heard on Feb 17.

Iron Maiden: Flight 666

Due out in April, Iron Maiden: Flight 666 is to chronicle the band during their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour last year.




For this tour the band customized a Boeing 757 airliner dubbed "Ed Force One". It was piloted by singer Bruce Dickinson, and flown around the world for performances at 23 sold-out stadium and arena gigs in Asia, Australia, and the Americas in only 45 days.





The film was created by Arts Alliance in conjunction with EMI and Universal. It was filed by Sam Dunn and Scot McFayden for Banger Productions.




See the teaser below.

MP3tunes vs EMI part 2

A short while ago I posted a small story on the battle between Mp3tunes and EMI (story here in case you missed it).

Recently Michael Robertson
, CEO of Mp3tunes sent out an open letter to Doug Merrill, EMI's President of Digital Strategy.

In the letter, Robertson asks Merrill to re-examine EMI's actions regarding its strategy, motives, and rethink suing his company.

With all of the free music EMI themselves put out....will Doug respond?

Read the full letter here at: Mi2N

MP3Tunes vs EMI

MP3Tunes has submitted a legal response to a lawsuit filed against them by EMI for offering personal music lockers and the sideload.com music search engine.

EMI is saying that this lawsuit is about piracy. MP3Tunes has filed counter claims against EMI "for engaging in unfair, unlawful and deceptive business practices to further their own business interests."

MP3Tunes is requesting our help in their fight. For more information--- MP3Tunes/EMI