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... let his name fool you. 50 Cent, also known as Curtis Jackson, don't come cheap. In 2003, Milan Music, Inc., a small recording company, ... not been returned, the offer to cancel the contract was being withdrawn. On April 17, Emmel wired the $50,000 refund to Milan, who accepted the money and did not attempt to return the ... The Bank! For a copy of the Appellate Division's decision, please use this link: Milan Music, Inc. v. Emmel Communications Booking, Inc. For a copy of the New York County Supreme ...

... drive-through and rapped an order. "We know that you adopted the name 50 Cent years ago as a metaphor for change," the letter said. "We at Taco Bell ... attention to its new hip-hop-based advertising campaign . . . ." The complaint also alleges that Cent has been criticized on blogs for supposedly "selling out" by endorsing Taco Bell, ... been very pleased to make the $10,000 donation to the charity of his choice." That Cent chose not to accept the offer and instead demanded $4 million in a lawsuit, ...

After one signed contract, two failed attempts to perform and two unexecuted contracts, hip hop artist 50 Cent must arbitrate a dispute with his concert producer, pursuant to a provision in the only applicable contract. In Jackson v. Iris.com, No. 1:07CV961, 2007 WL 4409790 (E.D. Va. Dec. 19, 2007), concert producer Iris sought to book Jackson, widely known as 50 Cent, for a concert series.

Universal Music Group said it will sell digital music from artists such as Sting, 50 Cent and Stevie Wonder without the customary copy-protection technology for a limited time. Tracks from thousands of albums will be available for purchase on the recording artists' websites and through several established online music retailers, although Universal is excluding Apple's iTunes store, the No. 1 online music retailer. Read the article: USA Today

... theory that can be extracted from Wikipedia's pages on meantone intervals and musical cents and from Kyle Gann's explanation of just intonation. The following table summarizes ... know the frequencies a and b of two notes, the following formula yields the number of cents measuring the interval between them: n = 1200 log2 (a/b) Similarly, if ... rendered with a background color of #88000: pure red at 100 percent saturation and 50 percent value. The final row, depicting C one octave higher, is rendered ...

... Sony subsidiary (Columbia Records): "Until very recently . . . there were a handful of channels in the music business that the gatekeepers controlled. They were radio, Tower Records, MTV, certain mainstream ... not very good product through those channels. And that's how the music business functioned for 50 years. Well, the world has changed. And the industry has not ... 'll let them sink until they can buy them for 10 cents on the dollar and own the whole thing." (emphasis added) Should a "failing firm" ...

... R&B single "Bed" featured a quote from Concrete Loop's music editor Brian Davis, as a sign of the single's growing popularity. […] [T]here ... potential blockbuster song leaks. The day after Rawlins posted "She Wants It," from 50's highly anticipated CD, "Curtis," he received an e-mail from an executive ... Interscope Records, which represents M.I.A. and 50 Cent, declined to be interviewed for this story. But there's an increasing realization in the music industry that it needs to adapt to the digital ...

... Studios video titles, the ESA about video games, the BSA about software, or WebSheriff about UMGI music titles…" (Emphasis in bold added). These revelations further bring into question ... these charts I generated at mi.mediadefender.com there was not much new activity with 50 Cent, but Kanye saw some good activity. Kanye's two ... of UMG replied by asking: "Thanks for putting this together-- so you're saying that the 50 Cent release seems to be a "deeper" record in terms of popular tracks on p2p but ...

... costs. A backgrounder on the CPCC notes that blank CDs cost about 50 cents and that the levy currently comprises 21 cents of that cost. That is an enormous cost - 42 percent - and ... another way, 75 percent of content copied onto these cards is not music and 80 percent of people say that the content they last copied onto ... flawed - is the Apple iPhone captured by the levy? the Blackberry Pearl? All of these offer music functionality but are not the primary use (I would argue that in my own experience ...

... in Lil' Joe Wein Music, Inc. v. Curtis James Jackson for keeping us free to chant the phrase "Go [your name here], it's your birthday" when it held that 50 cent's "In Da Club" is not substantially similar to the original, copyrightable aspects of "Its Your Birthday ... is that? Not very, apparently. "A signature and long-standing feature of live performance rap music is the hip hop chant," offered defense expert Tricia Rose. "The chant is a form of audience engagement staged ...