Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
Reuters - The European Union's highest court
on Thursday threw out a lower court ruling that annulled the
European Commission's approval of a merger between the Sony
Music and BMG record labels.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
AP - Japan will stop pushing for legislation to charge royalties on the sales of iPods and other portable digital music players, giving in to opposition from electronics makers, officials said Thursday.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
AP - The European Union's highest court ruled Thursday that a lower court made several mistakes when it overturned regulatory approval for Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG to combine their music units to form the world's second-largest record label.
Read EU court: Rehear Sony BMG case
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:14 pm, Over one day old
USATODAY.com - The programming format for HD Radio: Almost anything goes, including redneck women and obscure rock 'n' rollers. Beyond-the-mainstream country and rock music are just two genres getting more airtime as the nation's stations roll out new, free digital HD Radio channels.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 8:41 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Struggling music subscription services
have opened a new front in their battle for legitimacy: the
mobile phone.
Read Growth remains slow for mobile music services
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 8:41 am, Over one day old
USATODAY.com - The programming format for HD Radio: Almost anything goes, including redneck women and obscure rock 'n' rollers. Beyond-the-mainstream country and rock music are just two genres getting more airtime as the nation's stations roll out new, free digital HD Radio channels.
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 8:04 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Appeals court arguments in a battle
over MP3 digital music patents between Alcatel-Lucent
and Microsoft Corp focused Monday on a joint
development pact struck nearly two decade earlier.
Read Alcatel-Lucent appeals loss of $1.5 billion award
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Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 8:41 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly.
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Posted Thursday July 3, 2008, 8:55 am, Over one day old
AP - The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt musicians and the songs they write.
Read EU musicians oppose Europe-wide online licensing
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Posted Thursday July 3, 2008, 8:55 am, Over one day old
Reuters - A grubby man in the pub named
Nigel who buys counterfeit DVDs is being replaced by a sheepish
young office worker named Nigel who downloads movies and music
illegally at his desk in a new British ad campaign against
piracy.
Read New British ad campaign targets downloaders
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