No, it's not an Onion item. Nor is it the newest entry in Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
Here's the true story:
The four largest record companies are suing The Ellen DeGeneres Show for using songs without permission. The "violations" in question are when Ellen does her wildly popular dance segments to pop songs. The suit includes more than 1,000 songs that have been used without permission.
>CLICK HERE TO WATCH ELLEN DEGENERES DANCING VIDEO<
OK, there's the law – and then there's good business. And once again, the recording industry is proving that it's not just the value of radio airplay and promotion they are thumbing their noses at. When DeGeneres does her dance routines, it places their songs in the most positive possible light.
(Wonder if anyone has conducted an iTunes analysis to determine whether there's a relationship between mp3 sales of songs Ellen shimmies to?)
Short-sighted. Pig-headed. Out of touch.
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Good she’ll fit right in on Idol now.
The music industry pounding on their chest for all the wrong reasons! They can’t see sheonly benefits them in every way? Sad…
You’re kidding me? Are they Nuts?
How is this not like when Oprah mentions a book on her show, and it shoots to #1 on Amazon and the New York Times Bestseller list?
How much would a label/artist they have to pay for this kind of exposure???
Please, really, someone explain the thinking here. Is it really just that simple, and that short-sighted?
Here’s another piece of news that’s very consistent with this Ellen story.
https://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10355448-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
That is the most LAME BRAIN move ever. Record companies should be sending songs to Ellen on Solid Gold iPods and begging her to dance to their tunes. Dopes.