The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

He became the first hip hop artist to launch a full rap album signed to Universal Music India.

As part of that settlement, the company agreed to pay $ 100 million in damages to the four major music companies — Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music — and an undisclosed amount to the studios.

By 1970, Dot had become an all-country label and in 1974, Paramount sold all of its record holdings to ABC Records, which in turn was sold to MCA ( now Universal Music Group ) in 1979.

* Republic Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group

However, Anthem / Universal Music will continue to release their music in Canada.

Konichiwa Records signed an international licensing deal with Universal Music Group to launch and distribute Robyn's music globally.

In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.

By December, after a chance encounter with chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris, Amos signed a " joint venture " deal with Universal Republic Records.

In September 2011, Amos released her first classical music album, Night of Hunters, featuring variations on a theme to pay tribute to such renowned composers as Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Satie and Schubert, through the Deutsche Grammophon label, a division of Universal Music Group.

On 21 October 2011 Williams announced that he had signed with Universal Music, following his departure from his previous record label EMI in 2010.

On 20 August 2010, Queen's manager Jim Beach put out a Newsletter stating that the band had signed a new contract with Universal Music.

With version 11 of Windows Media Player, Media Sharing was integrated and allows content ( Music, Pictures, Video ) to be streamed to and from Universal Plug and Play ( UPnP ) AV enabled devices such as the PS3, Xbox 360, and Roku SoundBridge.

* Lucian Grainge, Chairman and Chief Executive since 2005 of Universal Music Group International, and of Universal Music UK from 2001-5

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group.

After a decade of operating through Warner, when its contract with the company expired, the label was sold to MCA Music Entertainment ( later renamed Universal Music Group ) in 1990.

Universal Music Group acquired PolyGram in 1999, resulting in a corporate reorganization of labels.

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In October 2007, Stephanie Lenz filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Publishing Group, claiming they were abusing copyright law, after the music publisher had YouTube take down Lenz's home movie in which the Prince song " Let's Go Crazy " played faintly in the background.

In response, Universal turned the film over to outside film editors who cut Army of Darkness to 81 minutes in length and another version running 87 minutes that was eventually released in theaters, ending up with an R rating as a result.

Army of Darkness was released by Universal Pictures on February 19, 1993 in 1, 387 theaters in the United States, grossing $ 4. 4 million ( 38. 5 % of total gross ) on its first weekend.

* Universal Pictures released an earlier version, also titled Destry Rides Again ( 1932 ), directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Tom Mix and Zasu Pitts.

In 2011, Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green ( The Weather Underground ), released a new documentary about Esperanto titled The Universal Language ( La Universala Lingvo.

This again was changed when Grey Ghost Press released their 1995 hardcopy version of the game, to " Free-form Universal Do-it-yourself Gaming Engine ".

The film was released theatrically in the United States in the summer of 1963 by Universal International.

Universal Studios itself released the English-language version of the film on DVD in widescreen as part of a 2-pack bundle with King Kong Escapes in 2005.

The HERO System itself was not released as an independent entity until 1989, as Steve Jackson Games ' GURPS ( Generic Universal Roleplaying System ) became more popular.

In 1973, on the occasion of the centenary of the revelation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Universal House of Justice released a Synopsis and Codification of the text, which was supplemented by 21 passages of the Aqdas that had already been translated by Shoghi Effendi.

* All the Harold Lloyd features ( silents and talkies ) released by Paramount are owned by the Harold Lloyd Trust except for The Milky Way ( 1936 ), acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Productions for a remake and now in the public domain ; and Professor Beware ( 1938 ), which is owned by EMKA / Universal Television.

As a consequence, the hit remake starring Eddie Murphy were released by Universal Pictures.

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).

With PGP Desktop 9. x managed by PGP Universal Server 2. x, first released in 2005, all PGP encryption applications are based on a new proxy-based architecture.

* 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment released a " Collector's Edition " DVD on October 18, 2005 with extra features that included an " introduction by Mortimer Young ", " Jeff Bridges ' Photography ", " Making of The Big Lebowski ", and " Production Notes ".

A High definition version of The Big Lebowski was released by Universal on HD DVD format on June 26, 2007.

On August 16, 2011 Universal Pictures released The Big Lebowski on Blu-ray.

The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a credited comic remake released by Universal Pictures in 1981, features Lily Tomlin, as the wife of an advertising executive, and in a similar predicament as a result of exposure to chemicals from household products.

The Incredible Shrinking Man has been released on both Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs by Universal Studios.

Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Amos's tenth solo studio album and her first album released through Universal Republic, was released in May 2009 to mostly positive reviews.

Continuing her distribution deal with Universal Republic, Amos released Midwinter Graces, her first seasonal album, in November of the same year.

In Region 2 & 4, Universal Pictures released the entire series on DVD.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released all four seasons of Knight Rider on DVD in regions 1, 2 & 4.