This reminds me of Obama's dealings with the Republicans: open by compromising your position, and close by agreeing to something that is nothing like what you wanted. What on earth could Google be gaining from this?
And btw, you could add up every nefarious deed ever committed by every record label in history, and it still wouldn't come remotely close to equaling the amount of illegal downloads that have happened in the past 13 years.
I'd absolutely love to see the math by which you arrived at that conclusion -- particularly as the cases we know of musicians being screwed by the labels for their entire career and beyond are merely the cases we know about. You know what they say about the cockroaches you see.
As a composer, my view is that Coulton created an original musical work that happens to use Sir Mix-A-Lot's lyrics. Coulton should have published it as an instrumental first. Then the legal obligation of FOX to clear their use of this music would have been crystal clear.
Don't be snotty, that's not like you. If someone claims that there's evidence for something, the onus is on THEM to produce it -- not on ME to go rooting around for it in the internet garbage heap.
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