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Music Labels Are Not Taking Napster's Bait
News Universal Music was the first of the Big Five labels to respond to Napster's offer. Analysts had already suggested that the record labels were unlikely to accept Napster's offer, because it would mean handing over the distribution of their music...
[February 21, 2001, 15:34]
Music Industry Gives MP3 The All Clear
News The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) -- a consortium of major music labels and technology companies looking to protect digital music -- have backed off plans to block MP3 music copied from CDs, according to analysts and music insiders.
[June 29, 1999, 8:37]
Is Apple Driving Music To Mobiles?
Talkback Cell Phone & Music Labels - Idiots. Negotiate with 10 labels, get tracks labeled and loaded onto servers? Just like there were dozens of music stores pre-itunes but they were designed by idiots - just like 99.99% of cell phone interfaces- they can...
[April 20, 2005, 23:24]
Can Microsoft Win The Media Format War?
News But used in conjunction with first-session content protection from Macrovision or SunnComm, Microsoft's second session would provide labels with a way of offering limited copying of the music. How music labels, Hollywood studios and consumers...
[February 4, 2003, 16:05]
Indie Labels Test Mainstream Online Waters
News A new set of services aimed at giving independent music labels online distribution is springing up, hoping to reach companies like Apple's iTunes and the new Napster. It launched on Monday with deals in place to negotiate digital rights on behalf...
[August 26, 2003, 11:55]
UK Site Will Be First For Legal Music Swapping
News Wippit, the UK-based peer-to-peer music service that is on track to launch this autumn, is poised to announce important deals with at least two major record labels. The big five record labels -- Warner Music Group, Bertelsmann, Sony Music, Vivendi...
[August 28, 2001, 17:20]
No Olive Branch For Napster
News Patel also said she would open an investigation into the issue of copyright misuse, or whether the labels have abused their control of music copyrights. The lack of a settlement spells trouble for a quick launch of Napster's planned music...
[February 20, 2002, 11:54]
Double-sided Disc Combines CD And DVD
News The consortium, which includes major labels EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, said the DualDisc product has a full album on a CD side of the disc and the album in enhanced sound -- such as DVD...
[August 25, 2004, 8:50]
MP3.com Announces Subscription System
News The system allows artists and music labels to make subscription lists of available music for MP3.com users. Artists and labels control the price of subscriptions, allowing them to raise or lower prices depending on demand.
[June 21, 2000, 13:51]
Napster Signs Up Record Labels
News Capping a day of speculation, Napster announced a deal on Tuesday that should allow it to sell music from three of the five major music labels as part of its proposed subscription service. In no small way, the deal also marks a direct attack by...
[June 6, 2001, 9:13]
Is Apple Driving Music To Mobiles?
Talkback The cell phone music player idea is nice, but the only way cell phone carriers can make any money off of selling music on line is if they sell songs for more than 99 cents, or if the music labels cut their prices (yeah right).
[April 21, 2005, 10:57]
Wippit Wants To Make MP3-sharing Legit
News UK software company Wippit released Thursday an alpha version of a song-sharing program which it claims will reward music labels and artists when their music is copied online. Unlike other peer-to-peer clients, such as Napster and Scour which are...
[November 6, 2000, 15:30]
MusicNet, Pressplay Closing In On Labels
News MusicNet and Pressplay are close to rounding out their music offerings with deals that would allow them to provide songs from all five major labels. Although the moves won't provide the services with all songs offered by the labels -- big-name...
[October 16, 2002, 9:25]
Execs Target 99-cent Song Price
News As the early buzz over new music services such as Apple Computer’s iTunes fades, record labels and technology companies are struggling to turn the services into profitable businesses. Labels, artists and music publishers can potentially make more...
[December 9, 2003, 11:25]
Audio Odyssey Director
Downloads Audio Odyssey is a new digital music distribution and aggregation service, giving unsigned artists and independent labels the power to submit new music to iTunes & multiple digital music stores. To help unsigned artist and indie labels get there...
[May 31, 2008, 5:31]
Apple: Play Music At Your Own Risk
News Mac users may want to check the labels on their music CDs twice, as copy-protected audio discs flooding the market may lead to serious problems when they are played on some computer systems. Some of the discs include warning labels, and some have...
[May 14, 2002, 11:54]
Royalty Dispute Confuses CD Copy-protection
News A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions of dollars in back payments to music publishers.
[January 13, 2004, 11:40]
Blanket Hack Muffles RIAA Site - Again
News Hackers have once again disabled the Web site of the Recording Industry Association of America, a group of record labels that is leading the charge in the crackdown on online music piracy. Big music labels blame online piracy for a dramatic drop in...
[January 28, 2003, 8:15]
MP3 Launches Email Marketing For Record Labels
News MP3.com has launched a marketing service for record labels, sending emails to fans touting new music. But it demonstrates the increasing thaw in the relationship between the online music site and major labels.
[August 31, 2000, 13:44]
Record Labels Put The Brakes On CD Copy Locks
News Fearful of consumer backlash, major record labels in the United States have slowed controversial plans for making CDs more difficult to copy, even as tension over online music piracy mounts. Israel-based Midbar Tech, which makes the Cactus Data...
[September 3, 2002, 13:28]
