Thursday saw the end to a 5 year copyright infringement lawsuit being settled between major record labels and the popular file sharing service Limewire. In 2006, Limewire was accused through a lawsuit filing to be a web service “devoted essentially” to piracy by allowing person to downloa... Read more...
Amazon’s decision to launch its new Cloud Player without securing additional music licenses has been described as a “bold move” by many observers. It takes serious guts for Amazon to simply declare that it doesn’t need licenses — especially when even casual observers know the music... Read more...
Jon Bon Jovi is accusing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs of "killing" the music industry with iTunes. "Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking you... Read more...
Topspin CEO Ian Rogers sketches out a different future. Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, correctly points out, as others have before him, that it is not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business. And as far as the CD business going the way of the dodo, with sales of physi... Read more...
The French music business has launched the umbrella organization Tous Pour la Musique (All for Music), designed to lobby for the sector and to help educate the public on online legal offers. Similar in the concept to British organization U.K. Music, Tous Pour la Musique has a wider reach as it ... Read more...