Negotiating Through Lawsuit Continues: EMI Drops Lawsuit, Signs Deal With Grooveshark
from the all-in-the-negotiation dept
We've noticed a troubling trend in how legitimate online music services are being pressured into deals with the major record labels. The labels begin the negotiations on licenses... and then sue the company. That, of course, makes life difficult for the startup, which is then pressured to offer even better (read: ridiculously onerous) terms to the labels. We've seen it happen over and over again, and saw it happening when EMI sued Grooveshark this past summer. And, of course, a few months later, the lawsuit is dropped and a licensing deal has been reached, though you can bet the terms are not quite what Grooveshark originally intended. That's what happens when part of the "negotiation" involves a lawsuit.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: lawsuits, negotiation
Companies: emi, grooveshark
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Especially an American cooperation... [Chinese ones are bad too, but for rather different reasons :D]
and yet, it keeps happening.
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In Other News...
They will be selling their own approved batteries. These will also be DRM-protected so they can only supply their protected power to approved devices.
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Some manufacturers do this with their batteries
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Goodbye, Grooveshark, hello...?
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....not good
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