New 'Circus' Promotional

Source: Sony BMG

Sony to Pay Louis Vuitton for Past Britney, Da Brat Videos

The following italicized article is from www.nymag.com:

If we ever trademark a special pattern made from our initials, we would hire the Louis Vuitton legal team to help protect it in a heartbeat because they are on their game. The luxury company won another victory yesterday in its never-ending trademark-protection crusade, this time against Sony BMG. In a legal dispute just slightly more glamorous than LVMH's recent ones with eBay, Sony BMG has agreed to pay Louis Vuitton 100,000 euros, or $155,830. Louis Vuitton got upset with the music giant because they used its Toile Monogram and Multicolore trademarks in music videos and on CDs by Britney Spears, Ruben Studdard, and Da Brat. For example, in her "Do Somethin'" video, Britney appears driving through the clouds with her sexy girl entourage* in a pink hummer with a pink dashboard embossed with Louis Vuitton's signature pattern (which flashes on the screen for literally less than a second). "We don't make dashboards," a Vuitton spokeswoman told the Daily News. Though you can still watch the "Do Somethin' " video on YouTube (thank God), Sony BMG has agreed to cease distribution of American Idol winner Studdard's album The Return and pay Louis Vuitton an extra, undisclosed amount of cash in relation to that case.

What makes the LVMH legal team seem even more spectacular is they've already won $240,000 in the Spears and Da Brat cases over the last five years. In fact, according to our calculations, with the total winnings minus the Studdard bonus, the company can buy itself, why, 130 airport rolling bags!

Source: NY Mag

'Radar' Release Canceled?

According to several gossip sites the release of Britney's new single 'Radar' has been canceled.

Sony BMG reportedly feels that 'Blackout' is 'too associated with Britney's previous struggles' and that they 'want to close this era and move on to the next album', which is reportedly scheduled for a December 9th release.

When contacted by BTI Sony BMG were not immediatley available for response.

Source: Break The Ice

Britney Spears in secret talks for $100m comeback tour

The following italicized article is from www.showbizspy.com:

Troubled pop princess Britney Spears is in secret talks over a $100m comeback world tour, it has been claimed.

The 26-year-old star is said to be desperate to get back on the road and leave her recent troubles behind her.

Sources claim that the Toxic singer has already begun training for the mega-money shows with grueling dance sessions at the Millennium Dance Complex.

Spears’ record label BMG are confident that she can restore her squeaky-clean image on the road. “Things are looking up for Britney,” said a source. “She’s finally focusing on her career again.”

But since her disastrous performance at the MTV VMAs in 2007, Britney has a lot to prove.

“There will be no more on-stage blunders,” the source tells the News of The World. “Britney’s turned a corner and the world will be amazed with her.”

Source: Showbiz Spy

Because A Lot Of You Have Been Asking

Yes, we are thrilled that Leona Lewis is doing so well in America.

She has a #1 song with Bleeding Love and we can say….."We called it way back in 2006!"

Leona's success is also very bittersweet for us because, as many of you have noticed, we haven't been writing about her. Nor will we mention her any time soon.

We also have several other artists that are "dead to us." They include: Tori Amos, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, The Gossip, Adele, Lil' Mama, Pink, Usher, Justin

Timberlake, Whitney Houston and more. These are some of our favorite musicians. It really, truly pains us not to talk about them. But, it is something we HAVE to do!

Why????

Because Zomba, which is owned by Sony BMG, is suing us and we had a lightbulb go off recently: we can't support any artist signed to Sony BMG.

Why should we help the company suing us make money???? Especially when their lawsuit is personal!

Sony BMG, and their labels Zomba and Jive, are suing us for streaming several songs that turned out to be by Britney Spears.

When these songs first leaked, there was a lot of doubt as to whether they were Britney or a fake. Plus, we never made any music downloadable.

Every time we saw a take-down notice from the R.I.A.A., we complied immediately. By the way, no one at Sony BMG ever contacted us about Britney.

Also, every song we posted - not knowing if it was or wasn't an authentic Spears song - had already been all over the internet and fansites, yet PerezHilton.com is the only entity being sued by Sony BMG.

That's just not right! And, what's even worse are the outrageous demands Sony BMG are making in order to get them to settle this lawsuit and have this case dropped. We don't wanna get into specifics, as this hasn't all been resolved yet.

Sony BMG may win this battle, but at the end of the day we will be the ones laughing.

We KNOW that our support can help their artists, some of our favorites, immensely. We hope alienating us was worth it for Sony BMG!

Every other label out there wants to have us as a friend. It really makes us question the business practices of Sony BMG that they would rather have Perez as an enemy.

Their loss!

And, though we may never write about Leona again, we still love her. Always will. Same for Xtina. And J Lo. And Adele. And Ditto.

Our heart is sad.

Source: Perez Hilton

He knew that those songs were Britney's and he was the only one who put them on his website and now he is trying to blame this on somebody else? I thought he were nice but I guess I made a mistake in judgement!