From the Wall Street Journal:
For much of this year, News Corp.'s movie and television studios refused to use in their productions almost any music controlled by Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group -- a move that people familiar with the situation say was retaliation for a Universal Music lawsuit against News Corp.'s MySpace social-networking site.
The Twentieth Century Fox film and TV studios' ban on using Universal music was recently lifted. But the move highlights the tense and convoluted relations between media conglomerates with conflicting agendas in the digital age. According to numerous people familiar with the situation, the ban was implemented in February by senior News Corp. management in reaction to a lawsuit Universal had filed against News Corp. and MySpace. That suit, filed in November 2006 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleged that MySpace contributed to copyright infringement by allowing users to post unauthorized copies of Universal's songs and music videos.
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