Courtney Love Sues for Her Share Posted by CmdrTaco on 14:32 Friday 15 September 2000 from the now-thats-pretty-funny dept. yibyab writes "Isn't this just sweet? I'm not a Courtney Love music fan, but I love her moxie. Upside is reporting in this article that Ms. Love wants her share of Universal's windfall from the MP3.Com case." Its pretty funny actually: since universal supposedly sued mp3.com protect the rights of their artists. Ms. Love figures she should be entitled to a slice of hundred million dollar pie. Of course she won't get it, but at least this will prove who the record industry is really out there working for. And I like Hole. I think Celebrity Skin was clean, well produced rock album. There isn't a lot of what I think of as "Rock" coming out any more either so thats saying something. http://www.upside.com/News/39c0353b0_yahoo.html It's understandable that Love would expect that Universal would share its multimillion-dollar windfall with its musicians. Universal executives said in court papers, on Web pages and in one well-publicized speech that they were battling MP3.com at least partly to protect Universal's performers, a group that includes everyone from rap star Eminem to soul crooner Barry White to Love's own grunge-rock band, Hole. Universal also trumpeted the financial interests of artists in legal papers. Trying to convince a judge to issue a summary judgment against MP3.com, its lawyers wrote in February that, "Recording artists are compensated for their creative efforts and monetary investments largely from the sale of phono records to the public and from license fees received for the reproduction, distribution, digital performance, or other exploitation of the sound recordings on such phonorecords ... The My.MP3.com service is built on ... unauthorized reproductions." f
