Posted Thursday June 19, 2008, 2:14 pm, Over one day old
AP - Members of Poison say their record label has consistently underpaid them royalties throughout their career, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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Posted Thursday June 19, 2008, 2:14 pm, Over one day old
NewsFactor - Apple reported Thursday that more than five billion songs have been downloaded from its online iTunes Store.
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Posted Thursday June 19, 2008, 2:14 pm, Over one day old
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The digital media service also announced that visitors are renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies each day from iTunes.
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Posted Thursday June 19, 2008, 2:14 pm, Over one day old
AFP - France moved Wednesday to clamp down on Internet piracy with a bill that would set up a new agency to track down cybersurfers who illegally download music, videos and movies from the web.
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Posted Monday June 16, 2008, 8:13 am, Over one day old
Reuters - An independent group of music
producers asked a European Union court on Monday to throw out
-- for a second time -- approval by Brussels competition
regulators of a major recorded-music venture by Sony and BMG.
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Posted Monday June 16, 2008, 8:13 am, Over one day old
AP - Independent music group Impala said Monday it has appealed the decision by European Union regulators to approve the combination of the music units of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG.
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Posted Sunday June 15, 2008, 1:03 pm, Over one day old
Reuters - Much like the Dvorak keyboard, new
digital music formats pose a challenge even as they offer
solutions.
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Posted Sunday June 15, 2008, 1:03 pm, Over one day old
AFP - Germans are innovative European champions but although they created the MP3 audio encoding format and the fax, it is often foreign groups that have profited from their development.
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Posted Friday June 13, 2008, 9:47 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Grammy-winning musician Peter Gabriel
believes the Internet has drowned users with too much choice,
failed to democratize the pop industry as much as was hoped and
eroded the quality of what people listen to.
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Posted Friday June 13, 2008, 9:47 am, Over one day old
AP - A musicians union has filed a federal lawsuit against the producers of "American Idol," claiming musicians were underpaid because the show's live music was re-recorded for reruns.
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