I'm not sure if dagw was referring to this or not, but last year some musicians put a Duke Nukem cover album together, and the original composer refused to accept royalties and got it taken down shortly after its release in the "Game Music Bundle." My memory is a little hazy, but I guess he was able to do so because they released the album before they had the rights to do the covers (I seem to remember someone saying he had not responded in months after they attempted making contact). Unfortunately it seems most information of the fiasco has been wiped from the face of the internet; the vgmdb entry[1] is about the only thing left.

It's just another example of pirates being more interested and/or capable of preserving history than the creators of history itself are: If fans weren't circulating this in the usual channels, we'd have lost such masterpieces as "BRO IT OUT YOUR ASS" to time forever.

[1] http://vgmdb.net/album/39540