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Star turns - March 10, 2010

March 10, 2010 Edition 1

  • LONDON: British rock band Pink Floyd launched legal action against record label EMI yesterday in a case over royalty payments and how music is sold digitally.

    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.

  • A 26-year-old German was sentenced yesterday to two years' prison for blackmailing US former supermodel Cindy Crawford.

    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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