After months of broken promises, a launch without any real mainstream music, and many shouts of "impossible" Qtrax has given another release date, and this one looks to be final. The free,...
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MySpace is reportedly getting together with a few major record labels to create a music website. The venture which will include Universal Music, Sony BMG, and Warner Music Group will aim to be a...
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The "first sale" doctrine is simple. You buy it. You own it. You can do whatever you like with it. In the digital world that's not so obvious. Record companies, software developers, and...
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Sony's digital entertainment woes continue as its music service Sony Connect is being closed. Some personnel have been laid with more expected to follow over the next few months. Sony...
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This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...
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This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...
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The next generation of the computer game Guitar Hero will be called Rock Band and ready for fantasy rock stars everywhere by the end of the year. The game is being developed by Harmonix Music Systems...
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"The Den of Thieves" is not the next Madonna song or album. Believe it or not, it's the name of a new Warner Music Group programming division. Thieves? It's a bizarre name. I get...
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BMG and other major labels sued Launch Media in 2001 over the use of custom music streaming. BMG is now part of Sony BMG. Launch Media was bought by Yahoo. BMG claimed that the Launch Media...
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Geffen Records, part of the Universal Music Group, launched open tryouts for the upcoming film Bratz: The Movie. Selected tracks will be included on the movie's soundtrack, along with music from...
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This article is part of a series reviewing the AnywhereCD bundled CD+MP3 album store. 1. Anywhere(CD) But Here (Warner Music). 2. Anywhere(CD) But Singles. 3. Anywhere(CD) is Better Than Nowhere. 4....
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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Or you can get them free and unauthorized from P2P. That's the lesson from the news that EMI is indeed pushing ahead with open format music. DRM-free tunes will be available on Apple iTunes in...
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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This post starts a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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The rise of the single is one of the pillars of the digital transformation of the music industry. Last year a landmark point was reached - more singles were sold than albums. That presents a painful...
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We earlier reported on tantalizing progress to remove customer-unfriendly and customer-avoiding DRM on digital music files. Not so quick. ... Major label EMI floated the concept to larger retailers...
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Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig notes the ironies in copyright law in "Make Way for Copyright Chaos." The controversial 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act was crafted as a...
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