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Net Music - The Courts Played On
News Many of the defining moments in the past year's online music world came not in corporate boardrooms or on the byways of the Net, but in the tense confines of the courtroom. Although the lawsuits have helped lay a legal foundation for the online...
[December 22, 2000, 9:04]
High-street Music Stores May Tune Into Net Music
News Acknowledging the burgeoning Net music industry, HMV CEO Alan Giles said: "The Internet represents a great opportunity for us. V2 Music has already done a one-day trial of downloading a new Underworld track via the Net.
[February 15, 1999, 15:11]
Sony To Distribute Games, Movies, Music Over Net
News But observers expect that the site will be used to directly distribute music, movies and game software to the upcoming Internet-connected console PlayStation2 via high-speed cable-television lines, from next year.
[January 19, 2000, 14:58]
Music Industry Casts New Net For Streaming Royalties
News The Recording Industry Association of America launched a mechanism Tuesday for collecting royalties on music streamed over the Internet, marking the record industry's latest attempt to gain online revenue.
[November 29, 2000, 10:32]
Lawsuits Scare Music Downloaders Off The Net
Talkback In my opinion the study shows only that people have stopped to cofess using of P2P programs. Conclusion about number of users downloading files made on this base is irrelevant.
[January 5, 2004, 14:58]
Net Music Sales Under Threat In Patent Case
News SightSound Technologies, a digital media company, has won an important ruling on a set of patents that could give it substantial reach over the business of selling music and video online. That means that any extra cost to downloading music as a...
[February 15, 2002, 10:56]
US Report: Net Music Will Change
News On Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), whose members sell more than 90 percent of the recorded music in the US, along with the five biggest recording companies, unveiled an initiative to create a secure format that will...
[December 16, 1998, 10:04]
A Year Ago: Net Music Will Change
News With a single stroke, the music industry may have dealt itself back into the Internet game. On Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), whose members sell more than 90 percent of the recorded music in the US, along with the...
[December 16, 1999, 6:01]
Putting A Price On Net Music
News The term covers companies such as AOL's Spinner, which provides access to a huge number of pre-programmed music streams. At stake is whether the free music services that have drawn millions of listeners during the past few years -- including such...
[July 30, 2001, 10:56]
MSN Joins Net Music Skirmishes
News Microsoft is throwing its hat into the post-Napster online music ring, targeting the same audience rival RealNetworks seeks with its ambitious MusicNet service. The software company will unveil a new MSN Music site Wednesday, the first time it has...
[April 4, 2001, 9:30]
News Burst: Liquid Audio Grants Net Music Licenses
News Toshiba, Sanyo Electric and Mitsubishi Electric will all be able to use the software in portable music players, the Nihon Keizai Shimbum reported. The paper said Liquid Audio was giving away the licneses because it wanted to encourage the spread of...
[August 16, 1999, 11:59]
Seagram, Bertelsmann To Merge Net Music Units
News According to the Wall Street Journal, Seagram Co.and Bertelsmann AG, owners of two of the world's largest record companies, plan to announce today that they are merging their Internet music operations, creating a large Web destination to promote...
[April 7, 1999, 14:10]
Net Will Change Music Business
News Real-world music stores and the current giants of the music industry will find themselves in the line of fire as the Internet squeezes out the middleman, stated a report from online artist promoter Internet Underground Music Association (IUMA...
[December 2, 1998, 5:36]
Government Warns Music Industry To Adapt To Net
News The government is forecasting the downfall of the UK music industry unless it adapts to the Internet. In his report on the new digital music economy, Culture Secretary Chris Smith warns that pirate MP3 Web sites and foreign competition are in...
[April 5, 2000, 9:13]
RIAA Backs Song-identification Firm
News A new political battle is brewing over Net music swapping, focusing on a company that claims to be able to automatically identify copyrighted songs on networks like Kazaa and block illegal downloads. Audible Magic has been making the rounds of...
[March 3, 2004, 11:25]
Napster Fury Fills The Senate
News The battle over online music drew stars to US Congress on Tuesday, as singer Alanis Morissette and former Eagles musician Don Henley joined Napster and record label executives to debate the future of Net music.
[April 4, 2001, 9:01]
Abbey Road Looks For New Talent Online
News Abbey Road recording studios has turned to the Internet for new unsigned music talent, enabling Net-savvy music fans to choose their favourite band in an online successor to Popstars. Organisations like Crunch, Peoplesound and a host of other Net...
[April 23, 2001, 8:39]
RIAA Scales Up Legal Attack
News The Recording Industry Association of America picked up the pace of its legal attack on Net music swappers on Tuesday, filing copyright infringement suits against another 531 individuals. With the total number of people sued now approaching 1,500...
[February 18, 2004, 9:35]
Liquid Audio Going Down The Drain?
News The mute button may be pressed this week on yet another Net music pioneer. If shareholders decide to shutter Liquid Audio, it would mark the third silencing of a Net music company in the past few weeks.
[September 25, 2002, 13:54]
