Last year Guy Hands suggested that membership of trade body IFPI cost EMI and other labels $250m a year, and insisted that it cut its costs or EMI were out. Now it looks like Hands has won the battle. According to Reuters:
A spokesman for the IFPI, which also looks to safeguard the rights [...]
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