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AOL's Got Major-label Music To Burn
News America Online, Warner Music Group's corporate cousin, last week began offering 99-cent (70 pence) downloads of music from artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alanis Morissette, Missy Elliott, Jewel and Brandy.
[June 19, 2002, 9:41]
AOL May Eject CD Division
News The unit, which operates under the Warner Music Group division, makes discs for the media giant's movie and music divisions. Reports have also surfaced that AOL Time Warner is considering selling its music division to EMI Group, which it tried to...
[March 7, 2003, 15:11]
MP3 Launches Email Marketing For Record Labels
News The first band to be promoted is VAST, which is signed to Warner Music Group's Elektra entertainment division. It has so far settled with four -- Time Warner's Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Bertelsmann's BMG, and EMI Group.
[August 31, 2000, 13:44]
Listen.com Strikes Deal With Vivendi
News Separately, online music company FullAudio struck an agreement to allow its customers to purchase digital songs from AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group. The Warner Music Group has been selling individual tracks for 99 cents on America Online.
[July 2, 2002, 7:57]
AOL Wary Of Legal Napster
News AOL Time Warner owns Warner Music Group, one of the Big Five record labels. With a legal sword hanging over Napster's head, Bertelsmann is actively courting the remaining Big Five labels -- Warner Music, Sony Music Group, EMI Recorded Music and...
[February 1, 2001, 8:40]
Virtually CD-free: The Future Of Music?
News Holzman's Cordless label is the first all-digital music label operated by a major record company, the Warner Music Group. UK's parent CNET Networks, joined Warner Music Group's board earlier this week.
[November 14, 2005, 16:40]
Skype Strikes Deals With Music Publishers
News Skype's new licence agreements allow the company to distribute ring tones from Warner Music Group artists. In January, the company struck a deal with Warner Music Group, which distributes music from artists such as Madonna, Green Day and Red Hot...
[April 26, 2006, 12:45]
Yahoo! Sings Duet's Tunes
News Earlier this week, RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group, EMI Recorded Music and Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment banded together to form a new subsidiary called MusicNet, which will create a subscription service as well.
[April 5, 2001, 16:20]
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. AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add copy...
[March 13, 2002, 10:46]
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 few labels, including Warner, Bertelesman AG's BMG, Sony Music Entertainment, and EMI, have...
[September 6, 2000, 13:42]
AOL Deal Boosts Microsoft Media Technology
News AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group includes a group of record labels that together control one of the five largest collections of music rights in the world. The deal allows -- but does not require -- AOL Time Warner to use Microsoft's Windows...
[May 30, 2003, 7:51]
MSN Joins Net Music Skirmishes
News The first major announcement in that regard came Monday, as AOL Time Warner, EMI Music Group and BMG Music to give distribution rights to a new RealNetworks-backed entity dubbed MusicNet. As technology goes, the new service is far from...
[April 4, 2001, 9:30]
RealNetworks Pumps Up Jukebox MP3 Recorder
News In a separate announcement the company said it has struck a joint marketing and promotion agreement with the Warner Music Group and Trans World Entertainment's e-commerce site, www.twec.com. Starting in late August the companies will promote...
[August 9, 1999, 14:26]
Can Bertelsmann Stop CD Copying?
News In June 2000, the self-titled single off Madonna's then-unreleased album "Music" was found online, causing an outcry by the pop star and her label, AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group. Warner Music has issued copy-protected CDs in France and...
[April 9, 2002, 8:45]
Music Online: Big Boys Team Up On Delivery System
News The Universal/BMG alliance is reshaping the power structure of the music industry, which has long been dominated on technical issues by an alliance between Time Warner Inc.s Warner Music and Sony Corp.s Sony Music.
[May 6, 1999, 15:08]
Disney Seeks To Block AOL Time Warner Merger
News They say that without equal access, consumers signing on to AOL could be directed to Warner Music artists, for instance, and may have to scour the Internet to find musicians from rival labels. Walt Disney, fearing that its programming won't get...
[March 23, 2000, 14:22]
BTopenworld Trials Music Subscription Service
News So far, BTopenworld has signed up two of the major record labels; Warner Music Group, which handles stars from Missy Elliot to Metallica, and Bertelsmann Media Group, with names that include Puff Daddy and Santana.
[October 29, 2001, 15:18]
AOL To Cut 1,200 From Net Unit
News Online, Warner Music Group and New Line Cinema. AOL Time Warner said on Tuesday that it plans to slash 1,200 positions from its America Online unit, the second round of layoffs in the online unit since its merger with Time Warner.
[August 22, 2001, 9:36]
Bertelsmann: Making Music With Napster
News And other major labels, ranging from Universal Music Group and AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group have openly voiced scepticism over Bertelsmann's participation terms. You mean the Big Five (BMG Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Sony Music...
[February 7, 2001, 13:57]
Online Music Services Accused Of Anti-competitiveness
News Pressplay is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, while MusicNet has the backing of EMI Recorded Music, Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment, AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group and streaming...
[July 9, 2002, 10:41]
