AT&T's Blue Room Recordings on ITunes -- "Censored" or Not?

Recordings of AT&T's webcast of Lollapalooza -- some of which were edited to remove political commentary -- will be exclusively sold online by Apple's iTunes store, in an extension of the relationship between the two companies.

According to the release given to artists,

"C3 [which produced the webcast] has an exclusive, multi-year partnership with iTunes, who provides major promotion of the downloads."

Apple has already taken a bit of heat for its relationship with AT&T -- the exclusive service provider for the its iPhone. When these shows appear in the iTunes music store, it's going to be interesting to see whether Apple includes the "censored" or full, unedited versions.

[Update]

The release also lays down terms for how much artists wil be paid for the AT&T-co-branded recordings:

- Master Rights Royalty

- 25% of retail price per download

- Publishing Royalty (based upon 100% of the composition)

- Full current statutory rate of $0.091 per song per download

- Territory – Worldwide

- Term – 18-month holdback period to be followed by artist/label ownership in perpetuity