EMI Getting "Chopped Up, Sold in Pieces" -- Affects RBN?

[queuemark]

Just read this story about longtime independent label EMI being auctioned off into pieces: http://news.yahoo.com/emi-sale-ends-...031740136.html

Apparently its music library is being sold to Universal and Sony. This is all very insider baseball stuff, but I wonder if it affects charting groups' ability to license music for Rock Band Network? Am I remembering correctly that EMI was the company that basically refused to have anything to do with RBN? How are the track records of UMG and Sony?

Anyway, just thought it was noteworthy that the label that brought the world legendary artists like the Beatles, Queen, and Coldplay, is defunct.

[GNFfhqwhgads]

No major company really enjoyed the RBN, but EMI was the one everyone KNEW would say no.

[Lowlander2]

If they're being sold into UMG and Sony, fuhgeddaboudit.

[LiveHomeVideo]

So a company that said "no" all the time is being sold to two other companies that say "no" all the time...

Nope, nothing's gonna change with us.

[SirDavidTLynch]

EMI were on board at first, but they were charging $3 for their songs (which were never officially released apparently due to some minor metadata errors they never took two seconds to fix) and haven't been heard from in ages

[Zemanator]

there is a reason why EMI no longer wants anything to do with the RBN, but UMG and Sony have been saying no right from the get-go