In 2008, musicians led by the estate of famed jazz trumpeter Chet Baker filed a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian branches of the four major music labels. Universal, Warner, EMI, and Sony BMG were accused at the time of “reckless, high-handed and arrogant conduct aggravated by their clandestine disregard” for musicians even as they use a “strict compliance enforcement policy and unremitting approach to consumers in the protections of their corporate copyright interests.”

The labels have now agreed to pay CAN$45 million to make the case go away.

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