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...Batt/Cage - a cheeky reference to the late avant-garde composer, right, John Cage's famous, silent work of 1952, 4' 33". Cage's publisher, Peters Edition, got the joke but filed for a share of the copyright dues anyway. While Batt was still "in hysterics", his label, EMI, had already coughed up a first installment of €460 to them. Batt wants it back, denies any intellectual infringement and says, "I'm not backing down and neither are they." The rare good humor of the spat - consecutive perfomances of both "silences" were staged last week in London - could evaporate...
Rather than seeking new ways of pleasing customers, however, the Big Five music companies (AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI, Sony and Vivendi Universal) are focusing on making it harder for consumers to get what they want. Although the connection between home copying and lost sales is as tenuous as it was in the '80s, the industry is pushing controversial anticopying technology into the marketplace--while entrepreneurs are assembling new business models for selling music in the digital...
That doesn't seem to worry EMI chairman and CEO Alain Levy, whose Latin America and Asia divisions are testing the technology. "If some kids who try to do 10 copies for their friends get their computers to crash and hate the record companies, well, too bad," he says. Early results from the field indicate that problems from copy-protected discs are rare. Universal Music says it has seeded 2 million copy-protected CDs (mostly outside the U.S.) among the 500 million it distributed last year and has received only about 200 complaints--a percentage roughly comparable to store returns...
...major labels' systems include the online services Pressplay (owned by Vivendi Universal and Sony) and MusicNet (EMI, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and the software firm RealNetworks). Initially hyped as the legitimate alternatives to the original outlaw Napster, these services have flopped with consumers--especially where CD burning is concerned. Pressplay charges $9.95 to let you burn 10 tracks a month--barely enough for one CD. MusicNet offers no burning capabilities, but EMI seems to have belatedly recognized the need, at least for fans of Sharon Riley and Faith Chorale. You can now burn up to 20 tracks from EMI...
...time when millions of people are seeking employment, I was sickened to read of singer Mariah Carey's $28 million buyout from EMI's Virgin label [PEOPLE, Feb. 4]. Where but in America would someone get this much money not to work? This must really impress the refugees elsewhere who are cold and hungry. Is this the picture of the U.S. we want the world to see? RUTH SWANSON Millersville...