“The chief executive of the company behind the Guitar Hero video game franchise has hit out at Warner Music after the label said higher royalties should be paid for use of its songs,” Matthew Garrahan and Chrystia Freeland report for The Financial Times.
“In a sign of increasing tensions between the two companies, Robert Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard, said Warner Music had failed to acknowledge the benefits to music sales from Guitar Hero,” Garrahan and Freeland report.
“Mr Kotick told the Financial Times that Edgar Bronfman, Warner Music’s chief executive, had made ‘one-sided comments’ that were not ‘respectful of how much we’ve done to bring new audiences into the market,'” Garrahan and Freeland report.
“Activision recently merged with Vivendi’s games unit. Vivendi owns Universal Music, the world’s largest music publisher,” Garrahan and Freeland report. “Mr Kotick said there was a direct link between artists featured in Guitar Hero and sales of their music. ‘We’re introducing a whole new group of artists to new audiences that is resulting in their iTunes downloads being exponentially higher than they would otherwise be, [as well as] new album sales and new merchandising opportunities.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “bizarro ballmer” for the heads up.]
It’s like watching monkees throw crap at each other!
Like Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones?
Surely Activision and Warner have a contract determining the amount of money Act pays for Warners music. Is this a case of sellers remorse? ” Oh wait your product is doing well, I should have asked for more.”
I own a massage school. It never occurred to me to complain that my graduates should retroactively give me more tuition after they become successful.
re TheConfuzed1
That may just be the best first comment ever posted!
… so long as an errant turd doesn’t hit Apple.
I agree with Zoo and Monkees comment was exceedingly quick witted also.
@Original Shiva,
What is your favorite happy ending technique? Does your school give away the “Ceiling Shot” award for the best one?
@Cubert
Wrong type of education. It’s all above board.
Common mistake though.
graduates should retroactively give me more tuition after they become successful.
That’s why schools have alumni groups.
Thank you!
I’m here ‘tip Thursday!
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Uhhh… ’til Thursday.
Eat up Martha.
lol love the monkeys comment.
Cubert get your mind out of the street and back in the gutter where it belongs. 😀
The perfect first post!
Yeah… Too bad I spelled it wrong! lol
In an attempt to make it to the first post, I typed too quickly and hit the submit button without proofreading.
Does Bronfman’s greed know no bounds?
Oooo – a rhetorical question posted on MDN…
Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith were the doodie guys in that band.
“Like Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones?”
OMG – I’m laughing so hard I’m wetting my pants.
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Bronfman no good.
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This is the damnedest coincidence! I was thinking of creating a chain of massage parlors staffed by trained monkees. Anybody here interested in a franchise? Cubert?
Chuck them both in a cage a let ’em duke it out.
Bloodiest man wins.
So, do they beat each other up? Or take the self-inflicted route?
Either way, we win!
The funny thing about monkeys throwing crap at each other is seeing how much of the crap they get all over themselves in the process. Just stand back and watch the fun…
Activison should forget about using Warner music and stick to Universal. Wait, isn’t Universal a bunch of dic* heads as well?
> Does Bronfman’s greed know no bounds?
No, apparently not.
> Oooo – a rhetorical question posted on MDN…
where!?
I think Bronfman is pissed that iTunes got more sales because of the game. If iTunes didn’t get any sales out of it, he wouldn’t have bothered WHINING like a little spoiled GREEDY BRATT!
It was good that he other side of the story was brought out, and it just puts an exclamation point of Bronfman’s GREED!!!