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Musicunsigned To Becomes Web's First Record Label
News Musicunsigned plans to launch itself as a music publisher making it the first dotcom record label according to its A&R director Stewart Feeney Thursday. It is partly the success of the Web site that has convinced A&R director Stewart Feeney to...
[May 18, 2000, 17:26]
Apple Denies Universal Music Bid
News Countering speculation that it is close to buying Vivendi Universal's record label, Apple Computer said Wednesday that it has never offered to make such an investment or purchase. Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported on talks between Apple and...
[April 17, 2003, 8:37]
Universal Copy-protected CD Shuns Media Players
News On the eve of Universal's kickoff of its long-awaited Pressplay online music subscription service, the record label is distributing its first copy-protected CDs in the United States, throwing a few new twists on the controversial idea.
[December 19, 2001, 11:32]
Is Apple Driving Music To Mobiles?
News When Apple CEO Steve Jobs walked into the suites of top record label executives in 2002, iTunes software in hand, he was welcomed as a trailblazer to a digital music future. The [mobile networks'] economics are aligned with us much better than...
[April 20, 2005, 17:25]
UK Buyers Fume Over Copy-protected CD
News Complaints about anti-copying technology have forced a record label to issue CD replacements for angry consumers--another setback for the music industry's stuttering campaign against record piracy. The disc will be replaced by retailers or by the...
[November 20, 2001, 9:18]
Apple Computer Wins Court Battle With Beatles
News Apple Computer has triumphed in its latest court battle with The Beatles' record label, Apple Corps, over the use of its famous logo. The record label sought damages and asked that Apple Computer stop using its name and the Apple logo for selling...
[May 8, 2006, 12:05]
Bertelsmann: Making Music With Napster
News You own a record label that's suing Napster. The company, which owns the major record label BMG Entertainment, announced plans to invest in Napster -- even while BMG and the other four major labels were suing the controversial file-sharing service...
[February 7, 2001, 13:57]
Sony Rootkit Remover On The Rocks
News Sony BMG took another blow Wednesday, when a security company said it has found malicious attacks based on software designed to defuse the record label's rootkit-related problems. Sony became embroiled in controversy earlier this month after the...
[November 17, 2005, 8:40]
Rolling Stones Hit The Web
News The Rolling Stones, one of the last marquee holdouts against online music distribution, have finally agreed to sell their music online, according to record label EMI Music. The three-way promotion between the electronics retail store, the online...
[August 18, 2003, 12:45]
EFF Lifts Curtain On New Act Of Sony DRM Farce
News Sony BMG and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced on Tuesday they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of the record label's CDs.
[December 7, 2005, 8:10]
MP3: A Year Of Living Dangerously
News From terrifying the whole music industry and generating predictions of the death of the record label its influence has caused a major paradigm shift in music industry thinking. Almost every major label has by now in some way committed to a digital...
[December 30, 1999, 6:00]
Wippit To Launch At 4pm - Sans Major Labels
News The company still hasn't signed an agreement with a major record label yet, though, which may discourage some consumers from signing up. A song can only be shared across the Wippit network if the record label that owns the copyright has agreed that...
[October 4, 2001, 14:05]
New CD Protection Won't Play On PCs
News Midbar said Monday that Avex will be the first Japanese label to issue copy-protected CDs using its technology, dubbed Cactus Data Shield. The discs, scheduled for release this month, will carry a label informing consumers of the technology.
[March 6, 2002, 15:56]
Rage: Sorry About The Napster Ban
News Many fans of the band found themselves barred from Napster last week after the band's management and record label gave the song-swapping service a list of people suspected of trading unauthorised songs.
[December 18, 2000, 8:44]
UK Site Will Be First For Legal Music Swapping
News Users may not be impressed if they can't download songs from their favourite band because its record label has decided not to make a deal. When a user submits a search request the Wippit database will check whether the relevant record label has...
[August 28, 2001, 17:20]
Radiohead Haven't Killed The Record Companies Just Yet
Blog Comment When we asked them yesterday, the Sellaband panel, made up of execs from record labels including Sony (they of the evil Digital Rights Management), sort of ummed and errred about whether they were a record label or not.
[October 10, 2007, 10:25]
AOL Wants To Lock Up Its CDs
News AOL Time Warner -- owner of major record label Warner Music Group and America Online, the world's largest Internet service -- confirmed the posting is authentic but declined to comment on its plans. Record label BMG Entertainment recalled hundreds...
[March 13, 2002, 10:46]
Apple May Buy Universal Music
News One analyst questioned whether it makes sense for Apple to purchase a record label at a time when media and the Net are transforming key label functions such as talent searches, promotions and distribution.
[April 14, 2003, 8:02]
Record Labels Targeted In Napster Suit
News The court spotlight is the latest and most public official scrutiny to be turned on the record companies' joint ventures, which are serving as the first broad initiatives to make major label music widely available online.
[October 11, 2001, 12:01]
Audiogalaxy Moves To Legal Downloads
News Napster developed its own subscription music service and at one time had planned to give its subscribers access to the record label-backed MusicNet service. Listen.com has been gaining considerable distribution momentum since winning rights to...
[September 10, 2002, 9:02]
