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Duran Duran 'shocked' after losing legal copyright battle
Source: BBC
Pop group Duran Duran have said they are "outraged and saddened" at losing a High Court fight to reclaim US rights to some of their most famous songs.
"We are shocked that English contract law is being used to overturn artists' rights in another territory," said founder member Nick Rhodes.
The group had argued that US copyright laws gave them the right to call for a reversion of copyright after 35 years.
But lawyers for Gloucester Place Music Ltd successfully argued that English laws of contract stopped them from doing so.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38182418
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AS IF the band intended that. They probably had a crappy lawyer.
Unstoppable BS corporatocracy. 