Good for Al, he's an incredibly talented musician, and he and his band can seemingly play any style of song pitch perfectly. I have been a big fan since I got "In 3-D," featuring "Eat It," on cassette tape back in the day, a tape I listened to literally hundreds of times.
On Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:24:41 PM UTC-5, cwpreston wrote: > Good for him. I’ve always been a big fan, from the first time I heard > “Another one rides the bus”. > > http://www.avclub.com/article/weird-al-just-cashed-in-on-a-major-lawsuit-against-106595 > > "Weird Al" Yankovic just cashed in on a major lawsuit against his record > label > > “Weird Al” Yankovic will now be able to speak from authority when he > writes his surely hilarious parody song about civil litigation. Yankovic > just received an undisclosed sum from Sony, a > settlement<http://www.spin.com/articles/weird-al-yankovic-sony-lawsuit-settle/?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter>that > comes almost two years after the singer sued > his > label<http://www.spin.com/articles/weird-al-sues-sony-alleged-royalty-funny-business/>over > $5 million in unpaid royalties. Yankovic and his team claimed that > Sony had failed to pay out publishing royalties for *Running With > Scissors *and *Poodle Hat*. More importantly, Yankovic sought payment > from digital music services like iTunes and streaming video sites like > YouTube. Yankovic said that he never saw a dime from viral tracks like > “White & Nerdy,” the video for which has been viewed 81 million times on > Yankovic’s official YouTube channel. He will now see an undisclosed amount > of dimes. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
