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Def Leppard 'Forging' Its Own Hits to Get Around Digital Sales Dispute

By Bruce Carton

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A band is covering Def Leppard's most popular songs to create "forgery" recordings it can sell, but Def Leppard doesn't mind at all -- because it is Def Leppard itself that is creating the new recordings. Joe Elliott, Def Leppard's lead singer, is now 52 years old. In 1979, a teenage Elliott and his bandmates signed a recording deal with Universal Records that still governs the terms of how the band is compensated for the sales of its music. The sales of digital music, which did not exist at the time, were not covered by the deal, however, and the company and the band have disagreed on what a fair price is for such sales. Billboard reports that this has led Def Leppard to refuse to allow Universal to sell digital versions of its hits. According to Elliott, "our contract is such that they can't do anything with our music without our permission, not a thing. So we just sent them a letter saying, 'No matter what you want, you are going to get "no" as an answer, so don't ask.' That's the way we've left it." The dispute has also led Def Leppard to undertake something that has proven...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 16, 2012 (boomark / email).