Pink Floyd sues EMI over online sales

• Update: Pink Floyd wins lawsuit vs EMI

BBC: "Rock band Pink Floyd have launched legal action against record label EMI over payment of online royalties and the marketing of their music.

• The group, signed to EMI since 1967, are disputing the way payments for their digital sales are calculated....

Pink Floyd did not appear at the first hearing of what is expected to be a lengthy case.

• Their lawyer, Robert Howe QC, told the court that the musicians wanted "to know where they stand as a matter of contract". Mr Howe said EMI contend that the sale of individual tracks from albums "only applies to the physical product and does not apply online".

He added that the practice "makes no commercial sense" and contravenes agreements signed by both parties.

• Pink Floyd's back catalogue is the most lucrative in pop music apart from that of The Beatles." photo getty 1967, the year Pink Floyd signed with EMI

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