How dare the BBC introduce people to Beethoven!

Got this through a (Dutch-languaged) mailinglist somewhere: Apparently the BBC had the idea of putting all Beethoven's nine symphonies online somewhere for people to download freely. The copyright on Beethoven's music is of course long expired, and as the music was performed by the BBC's own orchestra, they hold the copyright to the performance as well. No issues there, one would think.

Wrong. Apparently some music execs now want to sue the BBC for unfair competition.

Rotfl.

"How does one recognise a music exec?" "By the dollar signs, rather than love, appearing in his/her eyes when they hear music"