Universal Music CEO Doug Morris has garnered considerable attention for his fire-breathing dislike of technology, as well as his company’s copyright-infringement lawsuit against MySpace. But what’s this? Just in time for the holidays, he wants the world to know that he’s sensitive:
[Morris] added: “I hate being in the middle of this and I don’t want to be looked at as the suing chairman.
“It’s the worst thing that could ever happen to me,” he said, while vowing to continue defending Universal’s content.
Someone get this guy a Livejournal! How about this, Doug–once you get MySpace to settle out of court, which you’re apparently banking on, we start calling you “the bullying-by-judicial-force chairman.” It’s a little bit of a tongue twister, but if it’ll make you feel better, we’ll happily change our tune.
Universal Music sees MySpace settlement [Reuters, via No Rock&Roll Fun]
Unrelated but the 50 cent picture reminded me that I heard on the radio this morning that he said Oprah has become a middle-aged white woman over the years. Bold statement. I wouldn’t want to mess with Oprah.
Digital music has been a monomania of Morris’s for years. My significant other used to work for a friend of his, and he was bitching to anyone who’d listen about Napster and calling downloaders thieves back around 2001-02. The extortionate deals he’s making now are the culmination of a longstanding obsession.
Make fun of Alain Levy all you want, but among the music moguls, he understands the shift in fundamental reality better than Morris does.