Pink Floyd win against EMI with iTunes in the middle

Pink Floyd have just won a legal case against EMI, their music publisher. The conflict related to the fact that EMI authorized the sites selling online music, such as iTunes, to sell the individual tracks rather than the whole album.
The history goes back to the signature of the contract between the group and EMI. It was clearly specified there that they did not have the right to sell the individual track in the format CD without the express agreement of the artists. With the arrival of online music, EMI has considered that this aspect was null and void. Of course, at the time of the signature the online sale or even pirating via the Internet were things difficult to envisage.
EMI thus has just lost in court and will have to compensate Pink Floyd with 40000 pounds sterling. The major remains however happy with the judgement, the court having, at least for the moment, forgotten to prohibit them selling the albums of Pink Floyd in little pieces…