Friend-of-the-kangaroo Paul McCartney is all settled up with his ex-wife Heather Mills, and though you'd imagine $48.6 million changing hands in a divorce proceeding would put a damper on a man's fancy come springtime, no one should be surprised that Sir Paul won't be emergency stocking-up at Big Lots this weekend to see him through the fallow early days of studio-apartment bachelorhood. Look upon his post-settlement bank balance, ye white-collar workers, and despair.
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Avril Lavigne has reached an "undisclosed settlement" with the '70s powerpop band the Rubinoos, who sued her over allegations that she was plagiarizing their song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" in the chorus of her inescapable 2007 hit "Girlfriend." The Canadian Press story on the incident is quick to note that this settlement doesn't necessarily mean that Lavigne and her management think that she (and co-writer Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald) were guilty of any copyright infringement, and Lavigne's manager basically said that the settlement was a way for everyone to avoid the headache of a lawsuit. But that doesn't mean the debate over whether the two songs sound suspiciously alike can't rage on in comment sections, so feel free to listen to the mash-up of the two tracks above!
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Hey, remember when the leak spoofers at MediaDefender had their e-mail broken into a few months back? Well, the finance department at parent company ArtistDirect sure does: The company has to pay out $600,000 in credits to "clients affected by the leak," not to mention $225,000 in legal and administrative costs. And, of course, the humiliation suffered by the knowledge that employee outings involved seeing Chris Kattan perform. [Billboard]
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Friend-of-the-kangaroo Paul McCartney is all settled up with his ex-wife Heather Mills, and though you'd imagine $48.6 million changing hands in a divorce proceeding would put a damper on a man's fancy come springtime, no one should be surprised that Sir Paul won't be emergency stocking-up at Big Lots this weekend to see him through the fallow early days of studio-apartment bachelorhood. Look upon his post-settlement bank balance, ye white-collar workers, and despair.
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Hey, remember when the leak spoofers at MediaDefender