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In 2002 the composer Mike Batt made a six-figure, out-of-court settlement for infringing on John Cage’s 1952 work, 4′33″. Yes, that 4′33″. The silent one. It started when Batt and his band The Planets released a crossover classical (I hate that term) album called Classical Graffiti. Apparently Batt wanted to separate out the slightly differently styled tracks towards the end, and thought it would be fun to do this with a track called “One Minute Silence (after Cage)”. This was credited to Batt/Cage. Shortly after the album was released (and went to number one in the UK classical charts) Mike was contacted by Peters Edition, the publisher of Cage’s work demanding one-quarter of the royalties from the sale of the song. They argued over this for a while - interestingly provoking the kind of discussion which Cage had originally intended when he first performed the piece: does it truly qualify as a work? If not, why? There was even a side-by-side concert performance of the two pieces in London, so that the, errr, differences could be clarified. Eventually, Batt settled out of court for an undisclosed six-figure sum. However, he indicated that Peters had acknowledged they probably didn’t have much of a case, and he was donating the money out of respect for John Cage, to the John Cage Trust.
You may remember that the industry was busted for off-line price-fixing a few years back. It was also outed (again) for a major payola scandal last year. This year, the industry is under the microscope for its pricing practices related to digital music. The feds have already launched an investigation and New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer is making his own inquiries. Like a shark smelling blood in the water, the latest round of investigations has attracted the lawyers. Prominent California attorney William Lerach has now launched a class action suit against the labels on behalf of consumers who have allegedly been overcharged for music. This in itself is not particularly surprising given the ongoing federal investigation into the same topic, but the lawsuit does contain some interesting tidbits. For instance, the suit claims that the music labels fought tooth and nail against the arrival of online music stores, and that they did so by launching their own poorly-conceived (on purpose) online ventures.