Lily Allen is in hot water with her record company, EMI, after recording and making available a cover-version of ‘Womanizer’ by Britney Spears - and all because Mark Ronson made a HQ copy available when he played the song on his radio show [Website – Amy Grindhouse].
Fans did what modern fans always do, give copyright law a good hard seeing to – and ripping their own copies of the track and making it available on sites like YouPoop.
Seems that both the British songstress and her record label are pissed about the issue. Allen took to her celebrity MySpace blog to explain how the song ended up being distributed without proper permission.
“Now, some of you may be wondering why I covered ‘Womanizer’ - simple really, I love Britney and I love the song.”
“It wasn’t my intention for it to have whizzed round the world like it has,” added Allen. “Mark Ronson asked me for something no one had heard to play on his radio show, and‘Womanizer’ was the only song I had as an attachment on my Blackberry, and I couldn’t get home to send him anything else in time.”
However, fans took the opportunity to get their hands on the exclusive track.
“I had asked him to talk all over it so it wouldn’t get ripped, but he didn’t,” explained the singer. “Thanks Mark - for getting me in serious trouble with my record company.”
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