Star turns - March 10, 2010
March 10, 2010 Edition 1
The group is disputing how online royalty payments and music marketing are calculated. It is also challenging EMI's ability to "unbundle" their albums and sell tracks online.
Pink Floyd's lawyer told the high court that a contractual clause prohibited such "unbundling" or the selling of tracks other than in their original configuration, whether in physical or digital form.
The defendant admitted to the court that he had used a photo of Crawford's daughter to extort money, after he was deported from the US to Germany last year.
The photo shows Crawford's daughter at the age of seven, posing bound and gagged on a chair.
The man had threatened to sell the picture to the press.





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