Pink Floyd has won a legal battle with its record label EMI over whether the label should be allowed to distribute digital versions of the band’s material on a song by song basis as it does through the Apple’s iTunes Store. The band is just one of several bands that have objected to the splitting up of what it considers to be single pieces of work.
Why you would want to buy Wish You Were Here and not Welcome To The Machine, I have no idea. Buying Pink Floyd singles is like buying little sections of a chocolate bar. It's still good and tasty, but you don't get the full effect.
They have been signed to EMI since 1967 and said that their contract meant their albums could not be split up without their permission. A judge agreed with that assessment and said that the contract contained a clause to “preserve the artistic integrity of the albums”.
And so EMI has been ordered to pay $60,000, with a further fine to be decided.
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