And a story involving both SonyBMG and Universal now. The two majors last Friday reached an out of court settlement over a row involving album releases linked to 'The Da Vinci Code' movie. At the start of last week both record companies released albums relating to the much hyped film - Universal released the official soundtrack, SonyBMG an album of music "inspired by Da Vinci", whatever that means. Universal accused SonyBMG of 'passing off' their release as the official album of the movie which, of course it isn't, and they were looking for the High Court to do something about it. But before the High Court could act an undisclosed out of court settlement was reached. What exactly that out of court settlement involved we don't know, though I'm sure that Dan Brown could come up with some stupid conspiracy theory about it if you wanted him to.
May 23, 2006
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Majors reach Da Vinci deal
Universal and SonyBMG have settled out of court over Da Vinci Code albums, after Universal accused SonyBMG of passing off its release as the official soundtrack.