Future of Music Interview with LesEchos France: I received a cease & decist letter from these people for posting a piece of a story about ME

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Internet, ou quand le musicien s'émancipe des labels...........

UPDATE:  this is one if the most bizarre things that ever happened to me: A few weeks ago, I gave an interview to a reporter from LES ECHOES, about my Future of Music book, and they did a story on it which is available on their website (can't link to it - they may get REALLY upset if I do).  The story is only available to subscribers so I posted most of the text on this blog, with a link, so that my readers could check it out. As far as I am concerned this is fair use given that the story is about ME, my co-writer and the book (but even if it wasn't - what better promotion can you ask for?).  But sure enough, today I received a fax warning me that I was violating their intellectual property by doing this. Here's my response for the powers that run LES ECHOES:   1) I will make sure that I will never give an interview to LES ECHOES again, ever  2) I will make sure to never link to any page on LES ECHOES again  3) I think LES ECHOES is living in Les 70's - thwarting my intention to send traffic to them by not allowing an excerpt of a feature ABOUT ME that is behind a registration page has got to be the taking the 'mini-tel' of publishing price. Congratulations Les Echoes - you have successfully silenced me.