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US indie music labels gang up on majors

News Betting that collective action will help give them more market power, a group of 125 independent US record labels initiated a new trade group on Monday night aimed at giving them more parity, online and off, with the four major music labels.

8 June 2005, 10:25

News.blog: MySpace close to music deal with labels

News MySpace.com is rolling toward closing deals with two of the four top music labels, according to a report published on Monday. Facebook has also been talking to the top four music labels about offering songs on its site, according to reports.

Tags: services, labels, streaming, songs

25 March 2008, 9:37

Record labels close cheap Spanish MP3 site

News One of the oldest Web sites offering inexpensive music downloads has closed, after years of legal battles with record labels. Record labels around the world disagreed and spent years in court suing the company.

3 June 2005, 10:49

News.blog: Qtrax loses track of labels

News For weeks, Qtrax, an ad-supported file-sharing site, had promised to offer free and legal music downloads from all four of the major record labels when it opened for business. Sunday evening that his company may not possess agreements "written in...

Tags: labels, file sharing, songs, sharing

28 January 2008, 9:22

Indie record labels seeing gold

News According to A2IM, independent labels account for 27.5 per cent of music sales in the US, and up to one-third of online listening on Internet radio and other venues. A2IM was formed in part to lobby for more equity with the big labels.

27 July 2005, 10:16

Record labels sue P2P firm LimeWire

News After months of issuing warnings, the music industry has finally made good on its threat to file suit against peer-to-peer software company LimeWire. A group of music companies, including Sony BMG, Virgin Records and Warner Bros.

7 August 2006, 9:47

One-third of CDs sold are pirated, say music labels

News More than a third of all CDs purchased worldwide are pirated, according to a record label report released on Thursday. Illegally sold copies of music discs are a $4.6bn market, with legitimate sales in some countries shrinking by as much as a third...

24 June 2005, 9:42

Microsoft labels IE 7 'high priority' update

News Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a 'high priority' update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary...

27 July 2006, 9:33

News.blog: Sony BMG links with Nokia music service

News The concept behind Nokia's new music service 'Comes with Music' is starting to catch on with the major music labels. What is groundbreaking about these deals -- Universal Music Group was first among the labels to join the service -- is that Nokia...

Tags: labels, nokia, concept, music service

23 April 2008, 9:22

News.blog: MySpace Music to launch

News A new music service jointly owned by News Corp's MySpace.com and three record labels will be announced today, according to a source familiar with the deal. Facebook was reportedly also in talks with the major record labels, but the music industry...

Tags: itunes, deal, labels, jobs

3 April 2008, 9:36

News.blog: Qtrax signs deal with EMI

News Qtrax, the free music site with the questionable history of signing labels, has cut a licensing agreement with EMI Music, the company announced on Tuesday. Last month, Qtrax signed a licensing agreement with Universal Music Group, the largest of...

Tags: songs, labels, portable, signed

4 June 2008, 9:09

US Supreme Court rules against file swapping

News The US Supreme Court has handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file swapping, ruling that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.

28 June 2005, 8:44

HP signs up new LightScribe licencees

News Hewlett-Packard has signed up a number of key backers for its LightScribe technology, which uses a laser to etch labels onto CDs and DVDs. The company is pitching it as a better alternative to adhesive labels, which can cause problems in a drive...

24 May 2005, 8:42

Apple sticks with 79p per iTunes song

News Apple and four major record labels have renewed their deals to sell songs on iTunes for 99 cents, an Apple representative said on Monday. Earlier on Monday, the Financial Times reported that the four major labels -- EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and...

2 May 2006, 10:44

Apple and Amazon key to DRM-free music

News Critics of digital rights management have long insisted that record labels could boost sagging sales by offering music unencumbered by copy-protection schemes. If sales are lacklustre, then that might spur the labels to wrap songs in even tighter...

18 May 2007, 10:23