Streamcast sings praises of indie artists, new tech
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Facing a fusillade of legal attacks from an irate entertainment industry, free file-sharing Netco Streamcast Networks -- like Napster before it -- is seeking legitimacy by reaching out to independent artists with technology to help them distribute their music themselves. Franklin, ...
| Trouble ahead for music industry
LONDON, UK (Radio 1) - The UK music industry has been told it must rethink the way it tackles digital music or face long-term decline. If record companies do not make their own digital music services more attractive to fans, they could continue to lose out to music piracy over the internet, a report ...
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Morpheus users move to Gnutella Web music network
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Thousands of Internet users turned to the little-known Gnutella network over the weekend to download free music and movies, throwing up another possible roadblock for media companies fighting unauthorized downloads of copyrighted material. Makers of the popular Morpheus file-sharing ...
| Internet Radio Must Pay Up
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - After seven months of negotiations, a U.S. government panel put forth the recommendation last week that online radio broadcasters pay royalties to record companies to be split evenly with the artists when their songs are played over the net. Online radio stations could end ...
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Online music service Pressplay launches
NEW YORK (AP) - A new online music venture, Pressplay, has made its internet debut - gambling that millions of users will be willing to pay for music they used to get free from outfits like Napster. Pressplay is a joint venture by Vivendi Universal, Sony and EMI. It allows users to listen to tracks, ...
| MusicNet to launch on RealNetworks' Tuesday
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three of the world's major record labels and software provider RealNetworks Inc. Tuesday will launch MusicNet, an online subscription venture, the biggest effort by the music industry to distribute music profitably over the Internet. The service will launch on RealNetworks' new ...
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Madonna added to download service
NEW YORK (AP) - Songs by Madonna, Prince and REM are among those that will be available through one of the biggest legitimate internet download services to date. The service, which will launch in mid-December, will give music fans access to a certain number of songs for a limited period in return for ...
| Listen.com signs key licensing pact with publishers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - And the beat goes on in the online music sector as Listen.com Wednesday become the third Web upstart in about a week to sign a key licensing deal by reaching a pact with music publishers for songs on the Rhapsody music subscription service it plans to launch on Dec. 3. Under ...
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Musicians win web royalties fight
LONDON, UK (BBC) - Musicians and artists will now be paid directly for broadcasts of their work in the US on cable, satellite and the internet - rather than the cash going to their recording companies. A deal was struck between between representatives of the musicians and the recording companies. Until ...
| Sharing on Napster-alternatives rose in October - Webnoize
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Users swapped 1.81 billion media files on Napster-alternative services like Kazaa, MusicCity and Grokster, which have seen usage rise since Napster shut down in July to legal pressures, a research firm said Monday. Web research firm Webnoize said these services' October levels ...
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Jackson posts album online
LONDON, UK (BBC) - Michael Jackson fans will be getting a sneak preview of his long-awaited album as it is made available online for just 24 hours. And to celebrate the release, the popstar will also be logging on for an exclusive webchat. Invincible is in the shops from Monday but Jackson is posting ...
| Apple cell phone-sized player holds 1,000 songs
CUPERTINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. unveiled Tuesday a portable music player that can hold an entire music collection and takes Apple outside its core computer business for the first time in eight years. Apple's "iPod" is the size and shape of a deck of cards, with a small LCD screen and ...
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Pressplay in licence deals with 6 record labels
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pressplay, an online music venture between Universal Music and Sony Music, said Thursday it signed licensing deals with six independent record labels that offer music by a wide variety of acts, from rappers 2 Live Crew to country singer Kenny Rogers to jazz legends Charlie Parker ...
| Madonna Does Microsoft!
NEW YORK (AP) - Some boys kiss her, some boys hug her, some boys romance, some boys slow dance, some boys lie and some boys try--but we're guessing all Bill Gates did was just open up his checkbook to get Madonna to fork over the rights to "Ray of Light" as the soundtrack to Microsoft's new Windows ...
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Web users still swapping files
NEW YORK (Variety) - Napster may be under the thumb of the California District Court, but that doesn't appear to have dampened Netizens' appetites for swapping music and other media files, according to new data released by research firm Jupiter Media Metrix. The number of unique users for the newest ...
| Napster wins reprieve
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Online music-swapping service Napster has won a breathing space in its long-running battle with US record companies. A San Francisco court ruled that a summary judgment, bringing the two-year-old copyright case to a rapid end, would be premature. This spares Napster at least temporarily ...
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Napster, labels head back to court Wednesday
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Major recording giants head to federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday to request a summary judgment against Napster in their long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against the song-swap company, lawyers for the companies said Sunday. "We will argue in front of Judge ...
| Record Industry Sues Morpheus And Other Decentralized File-Sharing Services
NEW YORK (AP) - Striking another blow in its fight against unauthorized music downloads, the record industry on Tuesday sued Morpheus, Kazaa and Grokster, three of the services music fans have used to trade files over the Web since the shutdown of Napster. "We cannot sit idly by while these services ...
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EMI licenses songs to online service owned by rival
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - EMI Group Plc. Tuesday became the first music label to join two Web music services being launched by major recording companies by licensing songs to Pressplay, a service owned by Sony Corp. and Vivendi Universal. The EMI deal comes as U.S. antitrust authorities continue to scrutinize ...
| Copyright lobby seeks to kill online music bill
WASHINGTON (Variety) - A broad coalition of entertainment companies, advertisers and sports leagues will descend on Capitol Hill Monday, seeking to strike down legislation requiring music labels to offer the same licensing deal at the same price to all online music ventures. "That measure would create ...
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