Slicing Up Eyeballs reports that a musical featuring the songs of Depeche Mode has been canceled. Titled Playing the Angel, the production was slated to begin open auditions June 27th. Unifaun, the theater company behind the play, hoped to bring it to MITP theatre in Valletta, Malta early next year. The Playing the Angel website [...]

In an update to Wednesday’s Roundup: EMI sues bluebeat.com for offering Beatles catalog, a Federal Court Judge on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing bluebeat.com from, “directly or indirectly infringing in any manner [on] copyrighted work.” The order granting the TRO (below) notes, Defendants claim in their Opposition that they sell “entirely different [...]

The Beatles record label, EMI, sued bluebeat.com, its parent company, Media Rights Technology Inc., and Chief Executive Hank Risan for offering songs from the band’s catalog for 25 cents. More here. Professor Donald Jones sued the legal blog Above the Law for posting his faculty photo alongside a news story about his arrest and eventual [...]

EMI, who controls more than 20 percent of all songs licensed in North America, has agreed to a licensing deal in lieu of protracted litigation with music service Grooveshark. According to the site, owned by Escape Media Group, it was negotiating a deal with EMI when the suit was filed. However, Grooveshark was having difficulty [...]