Pink Floyd Win EMI Court Case: Single Songs Can't Be Sold Online

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Pink Floyd have won a high court fight with EMI Records that effectively stops the company from selling individual tracks from Pink Floyd albums online.

The band argued that the artistic integrity of their albums was compromised when individual tracks were sold over the internet on sites such as iTunes.

The judge agreed, stating that their contract, originally signed in 1969, had a clause that was still valid and that stopped any sales of individual tracks in any form other than as part of the album on which they were released without permission from the band.

This will now mean that other artists who have been making the same arguments over individual track sales versus album sales will probably follow up with their own litigation and expect to win after the precedent set in court today. Other artists thought to want the same kind of agreement include heavy metal stars AC/DC and country singer Garth Brooks.

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