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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]
Music Online: Big Boys Team Up On Delivery System
News Seagram Co.s Universal Music Group is enlisting powerful allies including AT&T Corp. Seagram Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman Jr.and AT&T's chairman and chief executive, C. Consumer-electronics giant Matsushita, parent of Panasonic, owns 8 percent of...
[May 6, 1999, 15:08]
Yahoo! RIAA Strike Deal
News The RIAA, which represents labels like Seagram's Universal Music, and Time Warner's Warner Music Group, has fought fiercely to protect copyright online. A suit with Seagram's Universal Music Group is still pending.
[September 6, 2000, 13:42]
Vivendi Exec Shuffle Raises Net Questions
News Meanwhile, a proposal to split up the company has come from members of Vivendi's board -- a charge led by the Bronfman family, which sold beverage maker Seagram and entertainment assets such as Universal Pictures to Messier.
[July 2, 2002, 8:25]
Shareholders Sue MP3.com
News On 6 September, a federal judge in New York ruled that the company owed Seagram's Universal Music unit $25,000 for each compact disc that was unlawfully posted on its My.MP3.com database, an order that could cost the company as much as $118m.
[September 20, 2000, 9:23]
MP3.com Reopens Service For Free, And For Fee
News The San Diego-based company has made progress in its legal battles with the major music labels, and last month reached an agreement with Seagram's Universal Music Group. MP3.com Tuesday relaunched its controversial music-streaming service, My.MP3...
[December 5, 2000, 15:20]
MP3 Launches Email Marketing For Record Labels
News A suit with Seagram's Universal Music Group is still pending. MP3.com has launched a marketing service for record labels, sending emails to fans touting new music. The first band to be promoted is VAST, which is signed to Warner Music Group's...
[August 31, 2000, 13:44]
Disney Seeks To Block AOL Time Warner Merger
News A person close to Seagram, which owns Universal Music Group and Universal Studios, said that regulators and legislators have approached the company to discuss its concerns, but it has yet to respond. Walt Disney, fearing that its programming won't...
[March 23, 2000, 14:22]
Vivendi Bids Au Revoir To Entertainment
News Bronfman was instrumental in brokering the $34bn merger between Seagram, Vivendi and Canal Plus that created the company in late 2000. Faltering French media giant Vivendi Universal plans to unload most of its US entertainment business but will not...
[May 1, 2003, 11:44]
RIAA Holds Fire On Webcast Licensing Scheme
News The RIAA, which represents labels like Seagram's Universal Music and Warner Music Group, has fought fiercely to protect copyright online. The launch of a performance royalty program to reimburse artists when their music is played online has been...
[October 9, 2000, 15:11]
MTV Buys Into Diamond's RioPort MP3 Player
News Universal Music Group, a unit of Seagram announced deals with RioPort and others yesterday to make content available for digital music players. The deal calls for the two companies to distribute and sell digital music across MTV's properties, which...
[July 20, 1999, 15:20]
EMusic Offers Subscription Service
News And in May, both Sony Music Entertainment and Seagram's Universal Music Group announced they would offer subscription plans for digital music services later this year. EMusic.com is launching a subscription service Monday that will allow consumers...
[July 24, 2000, 13:58]
A Year Ago: MTV Buys Into Diamond's RioPort MP3 Player
News Universal Music Group, a unit of Seagram announced deals with RioPort and others yesterday to make content available for digital music players. MTV Networks Online, a division of Viacom has signed a deal with Diamond Multimedia Systems subsidiary...
[July 20, 2000, 7:00]
EMI And MP3.com Settle Suit
News And in May, both Sony Music Entertainment and Seagram's Universal Music Group announced they would offer subscription plans for digital music services later this year. MP3.com has reached a settlement with EMI Group that will allow it to distribute...
[July 28, 2000, 12:30]
Microsoft And Sony Do Online Music Deal
News AT&T Corp.is working with Seagram Co.s Universal Music and BMG Entertainment on a rival system and International Business Machines Corp.is conducting a test with the five major labels. The Internet singles will be available this summer and are...
[May 12, 1999, 16:38]
A Year Ago: Microsoft And Sony Do Online Music Deal
News AT&T is working with Seagram Co.s Universal Music and BMG Entertainment on a rival system and International Business Machines is conducting a test with the five major labels. Sony's Sony Music, using technology developed by Microsoft, plans to...
[May 12, 2000, 7:01]
White House Enters The Napster Fray
News Last week, US District Judge Jed Rakoff dealt a blow to digital music storage company MP3.com in a separate case, saying the company's My.MP3.com database wilfully infringed the copyrights of Seagram's Universal Music unit.
[September 11, 2000, 7:57]
Napster Appeal: Don't Shut Us Down
News Wednesday's ruling was a major victory for the RIAA, which represents the five major music labels: Warner Brothers music group, Sony Music, Seagram's Universal Music Group BMG, the music unit of Bertelsmann AG, and EMI Group plc.
[July 28, 2000, 9:24]
MP3.com Offers Pay-for-play Music
News In a phone interview, Montgomery declined comment on how the pay-for-play service differs from the database of 80,000 CDs made freely available to MyMP3.com users, the target of a successful lawsuit by five major recording labels, including Sony...
[May 3, 2000, 8:29]
MP3.com And Tower Records Sing The Same Song
News With the relaunched My.MP3.com service, consumers will be able to store only the songs contained in the company's licensing catalog, which includes the complete music listings from all five major record labels: Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment, EMI...
[December 7, 2000, 9:06]
