The Smashing Pumpkins sued record label Virgin Records for unauthorized use of their music in promotional deals with "Pepsi Stuff"along with Amazon.com. The band states that the unauthorized use of their music in those marketing deals hurt their credibility and artistic integrity with their fans. According to the lawsuit, Virgin Records has the right to sell digital downloads of the Smashing Pumpkins' music but this right doesn't extend to licensing their music for commercials and advertisement deals.
It is important to note that most music companies would not have the right to license music for commercial promotional deals without an express contractual clause granting them permission or the music company would also have to be the owner of the publishing company for the artists song catalog.
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