Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins has filed a lawsuit against the label Virgin Records, claiming the label had no rights for using their band name and music for promotional and “Pepsi Stuff” advertisements with Amazon and Pepsi Co. Virgin Records has been the Pumpkins longtime record label for more than 17 years. The lawsuit demands that the label should pay the band with the profits earned in the promotion and to stop using the Pumpkins name or music in the future.

The band says they work extremely hard to keep the Smashing Pumpkins music alive to this day and they don’t want promotion threatening their artistic integrity…

More on it here:

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080325/D8VKF1IO0.html

I said it before and will say it again.

If you’re a musician or a solo performer who own your music by copyright, you have the right to do what you please with it.

So don’t get pissed at a band for going on a suing rampage, they have every right to be doing what they are doing.

It’s all about respecting the copyright and protecting a bands music.

Kev