Fox Lifts Ban on Music Controlled by Universal

FOX LIFTS BAN ON MUSIC CONTROLLED BY UNIVERSAL
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Ethan Smith ethan.smith@wsj.com and Sarah Ellison]
For much of this year, News Corp.'s movie and television studios refused to use in their productions almost any music controlled by Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group -- a move that people familiar with the situation say was retaliation for a Universal Music lawsuit against News Corp.'s MySpace social-networking site. The lawsuit hasn't been decided, but the ban was nonetheless lifted last month. Ironically, people close to both companies agree that the greatest pain may have been felt not by Universal, but by producers at News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox studios, who were often frustrated when told by lawyers and others in the corporate structure that their budgets couldn't be used to pay Universal for music they wanted in their shows and movies.
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