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...Then, last year, the happiness shattered. There had already been an ugly split from his Indian record label a few months earlier, and his only release since 2000 had been poorly received. But that was nothing compared with the scandal that broke in October 2003. The Indian police accused Mehndi of human trafficking by taking large entourages of staff on his tours of Europe and the U.S., then returning to India without them. The police claimed to have statements from 30 would-be illegal immigrants alleging that Mehndi and his brother were charging tens of thousands of dollars per person...
Though the two sides’ respective views of their affiliation did not match up in May, neither camp went so far as to label the partnership contractually binding...
...experts, the added complexity of licensing music and handling digital rights in unfamiliar territories and fractured markets has dissuaded heavies such as iTunes, RealPlayer and Wal-Mart from catering to Asian users for now. Rampant online piracy in places like Taiwan and South Korea also means that many recording labels in Asia still view the Internet as an enemy, not a sales opportunity. They don't want to license tunes to online sellers, fearing songs downloaded legitimately would soon be widely circulated illegally. One of the main online priorities right now, says Yashudi Ide of Sony Music Entertainment, the Japanese...
...criminal probe in Britain, where under the Public Order Act, it is unlawful to use threatening words to incite violence. "This is the first investigation of its kind," says Detective Clive Driscoll of London's Metropolitan Police. So far, activists haven't targeted the artist's main record label, Virgin Records. A spokesman for Virgin says the offending songs were released by an unaffiliated label...
...team final let Romania beat the favored Americans to gold, scored strong 9.7s on those routines, giving her the first U.S. women's all-around gold since Mary Lou Retton's in 1984. It was America's first individual sweep. For Patterson, the "new Mary Lou" label is inevitable. But she may lack the perkiness factor that has kept Retton in the public eye. The '84 champ hasn't stopped smiling since Los Angeles, but Patterson barely showed any enamel when a group of cameramen asked her to flash her medal and shine after the victory. "Mary...