AsiaInfo Services 04-13-2007 Record Firms Sue Yahoo! China for Copyright Infringement BEIJING, Apr 13, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Eleven record companies worldwide filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! China, claiming indemnity of total CNY 5.50 mi AsiaInfo Services ...
Apparently you can compete with free after all. Last week, the International Federation of Phonographic Industries IFPI released a report documenting a nine-fold increase in the number of licensed music downloads sold worldwide last year compared Apparently you can compete with free after all....
The article refers to music licensing. If you are an artist or indie label, one way to significantly expand your universe is to license your master recordings to record companies outside the United States. There are various advantages of doing so. Aside from the obvious advantage of generating additional record...
The Buggles once claimed that `video killed the radio star' but the internet could be cited as an accessory to murder. The world wide web has long posed problems for record companies by enabling consumers to download their favourite tracks without p The Buggles once...
China's Sina.com will join hands with five big international record firms to provide copyrighted music online, according to Sina. This music library will create revenues from advertising and delivering wireless value-added services VAS like musical China's Sina.com will join hands with five big international record...
The future of the Majors and other record companies will be that of content providers that seek to maximize distribution. Utilizing all "safe" distribution channels enables the record companies to focus on building and strengthening their artist base, a key competitive advantage. Additionally, expanded distribution reduces direct promotional expenses by...
For those unfamiliar, Napster is a program that allows the sharing of MP3 files. Although this may make record company executives squirm, the implications are only now coming into view, and in the end,Napster will be remembered historically as the For those unfamiliar,...
By most counts, the past week was a good one for the Recording Industry Association of America. It began with the final death throes of Napster, the record companies' arch-nemesis, after Bertelsmann withdrew its offer to acquire the file-trading se By most counts, the...
By Paul Sweeting CBS has grown tired of seeing music rights hold up ancillary distribution of its TV shows, particularly online. So it's starting its own record company to provide music to its TV network without all the strings attached. ...
A growing chorus of voices is raising serious and articulate questions about the record industry's approach to the digital revolution. WASHINGTON--If last week's muted demonstration on behalf of Napster during a Senate Judiciary Committee hea A growing chorus...
STRIP away the legal arguments, and you might conclude that the Napster case, which concerns the swapping of free music files by millions of Internet users, goes something like this. On one side are the record companies, defending artists' rights, as STRIP away the legal arguments,...
THE SPECTER OF NAPSTER - AND SUCH SUCCESSOR file-sharing services as Kazaa and Morpheus -- have cast a pall over many key digital-era content and technology issues. The Hollywood studios -- petrified of what happened to record companies, incl ...
Byline: valerie block Tom Sarig felt queasy back in January when his boss was fired because of falling album sales. With the industry collapsing around him and pink slips coming faster than hit records, the vice president of A&R for MCA Record Byline:...
The expertise needed to create compelling online movie services is likely to develop outside the control of the studios. Gotta hand it to Vivendi-Universal. Having sued MP3.com to within an inch of its life, helping to knock down its stock pri ...
Sep. 30--Record giant EMI has a new priority: buying out hot hip-hop label Priority Records. Sep. 30--Record giant EMI has a new priority: buying out hot hip-hop label Priority Records.
"RIP, Mix, Burn" reads the copy in advertisements for Apple Computers' latest model Macintosh, a campaign that has sent record company and studio executives into paroxysms of teeth gnashing and table pounding. At a hearing on Capito "RIP,...
Radio broadcasters have reached an agreement with record companies on royalty fees that radio stations must pay in return for a blanket license to stream their signals over the Internet, sources say. The two sides--major radio companies vs. th ...
In another victory for the record companies, the United States District Court in Philadelphia has affirmed the Copyright Office's December 2000 ruling holding that AM/FM broadcasters simultaneously streaming their signals on the Internet are respon In another victory for the record companies, the United...
In a bid to protect its music TV dominance, MTV has lodged a complaint against four of the world's largest record companies--Thorn EMI, Sony Music, PolyGram and Warner Music. Last December, the companies set up Visa, a rival music channel in Germa In...
Byline: anita jain Eminem is playing Santa Claus this year to a long-suffering music industry. Shania Twain is acting as one of Santa's little helpers. Record companies are hoping that such artists can deliver the best Christmas season in years- Byline:...
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