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Yahoo China slammed for piracy
News Yahoo China loses legal battle as Beijing court upholds ruling the Internet giant is infringing on copyright laws by allowing pirated music to be downloaded.
Tags: Web sites, Piracy, Copyright
Sony BMG signs onto Amazon's DRM-free music store
News Amazon.com, the Web's mega-retailer, announced Thursday that it will be selling music from Sony BMG Music Entertainment in its Amazon MP3 store.
Tags: Digital media, Web 2.0, Web sites
Sony BMG pushing mobile music in China
News Record label strikes deal with a content aggregator to distribute downloads on mobile devices where 85 percent of recordings are illegal.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms, Music, Data services
YouTube, Warner Music feud nearing an end
News Two companies have reached terms on most of the major issues and it appears Warner Music's videos will return to YouTube within weeks.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Video, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Sony Pictures, Warner Music Group Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, YouTube Inc., content company
Pirate Bay trial coming to a close
News Defense attorneys make their final argments, after prosecutors call for jail timefor defendants.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, BitTorrent, EMI Group Plc., Google Inc., prosecutor, attorney, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox
iLike talks download store with music labels
News Facebook mainstay wants to stop sending 50 million users to other sites to buy music, sources said, and is close to striking deals with three top labels.
Tags: Web 2.0, Music, Web services, Apple iTunes, Warner Music Group Corp., RealNetworks Inc., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, MTV, Imeem, Facebook
Insiders question label deal for Pirate Bay bidder
News Just as the press began eying Global Gaming Factory with suspicion, it came up with funding, a potential record deal and potential buyers. How much of that was real?
Tags: Web 2.0, BitTorrent, EMI Group Plc., Grokster Ltd., Investor, Stock, entertainment, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sweden, Internet Cafe
Pirate Bay: In search of an unbiased judge
News The judge tapped to investigate whether the judge in the high-profile Pirate Bay case in Sweden was biased, has been removed for potential bias. Now, the judge replacing her could face the same fate.
Tags: Piracy, Lawsuits, Verdict, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp., Internet provider, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, copyright law, Sweden
Universal Music, YouTube near deal on music video site
News Vevo would be the name of a new Web site jointly run by Universal Music Group and YouTube, according to sources.
Tags: Copyright, Music, Music Video, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Video, digital music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, MTV, Talks
Facebook silences Project Playlist widgets
News The legal complaints that earlier saw the social music site's widgets pulled from MySpace have now cut off its presence on Facebook, too.
Tags: Music, Lawsuits, Patents, MySpace, RIAA, blogosphere, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Project Playlist, social networking, Facebook
Project Playlist and Sony BMG strike deal
News This is the first major-label deal for the social music Web site, which has been hammered by lawsuits and seen its widgets banned from MySpace.
Tags: Web sites, Music, MySpace, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp., RIAA, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Facebook, ComScore Networks Inc.
Sources: YouTube, not Warner Music, pulled videos
News Warner made "11th-hour" demand during contract negotiations and received its answer from YouTube when the company began yanking the label's videos, say sources.
Tags: Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp., Video, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Advertisement, YouTube Inc., record company, revenue, blog
Talks break down; Warner Music pulls videos from YouTube
News Warner walks away from YouTube at a time when Google's video site is renegotiating licensing deals with the four top music labels.
Tags: Music, Search, Google Inc., Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Warner Music Group Corp., Video, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Records
Nokia adjusts to regain market share in Thailand
News Company's Thai operations plans to focus on its integrated product and services strategy under a "handsets plus solutions and services" approach.
Tags: Sales strategy, Forecasting, Sales/revenue, Business structures, Mobile, Thailand, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, business strategy, Forecasting, Nokia Thailand
New Sony CD risk identified
News Label says it will work with Princeton researchers on fix for copy-protection software uninstaller.
Tags: Data security
