Record labels have to keep experimenting on new ways to market their products. Case in point: Capitol/EMI says it is partnering with newspaper publisher Gannett (NYSE: GCI) to offer free…

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Some potentially sad news today for music fans who like their music free, but don’t want to risk the recording industry’s wrath. In a candid interview with the Washington Post,…

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Warner Music continues to push beyond recorded music… the struggling label has taken a majority stake in Get In, a Spanish artist management firm, according to Reuters. Terms of the…

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One of the UK’s top ISPs is preparing to launch an unlimited music service that would see it pay record labels for songs illegally downloaded by its customers, paidContent.org can…

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UK digital royalties to composers, songwriters and music publishers have grown quickly since last year, while those from physical sales are still dropping off. Half-year results from the MCPS-PRS royalty…

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-- SN Digital: *Scripps’* interactive division announced Heather Keets Wright has joined the team as VP of cross-network programming. Having held various positions with magazine brands Entertainment Weekly, Essence and…

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Members of The Allman Brothers Band have sued Universal Music-owned UMG Recordings for about $13 million, over royalties from compact discs sales and digital downloads services, reports Reuters. The lawsuit,…

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-- Joss Whedon’s ‘Sing-Along’ resurfaces on Hulu: Now you see it, now you don’t, now you see it again. Sci-fi director and writer Joss Whedon’s web series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along…

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Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) reported better than expected profits this morning, helped in part by solid digital growth. In its 10-Q, the company provides some detail on its investment…

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Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music Group’s Chairman and CEO, began the call offering a set stats designed to show how the company is outpacing the rest of the music industry—or…

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Considering the wider decline of the traditional music industry, Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) had a pretty good quarter, as the company’s Q2 net loss narrowed to $9 million from…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched its free music search engine in China, in a sector which has seen its fair share of controversies. The users can search for songs by…

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CDBaby, one of the largest online sellers of music for indie bands, has finally been sold, to CD and DVD duplicator Disc Makers. The deal also includes CD Baby’s online…

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As expected, Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE). and Bertelsmann AG have reached an agreement that has Sony buying Bertelsmann’s 50 percent stake in Sony BMG for $1.2 billion. The music company…

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Just how cheap do music downloads need to be before listeners will buy them rather than pull ‘em from P2P? About three cents, reckons one new Chinese platform. That’s how…

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Sorry, couldn’t resist it...Thoof, the social news ranking site formed last year and which had $1 million in funding from Austin Ventures and angel investor Ron Conway, has closed down.…

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Some 2.3 million people skanked Radiohead’s latest album from BitTorrent sources - during the two months it was legally available for free. A research paper from P2P monitor Big Champagne…

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The network neutrality debate has taken another turn with Robert Quinn, AT&T’s VP on federal regulatory issues, telling FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell that, “use of a P2P file-sharing application would…

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Music start-up vet Mark Piibe is moving to the digital side at EMI as global head of digital business development for EMI Music. Effective immediately, Piibe, who had been SVP-Business…

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Dell is trying its hand at a portable music player again, after failing to gain enough marketshare with earlier versions such as DJ Ditty. The new Dell player could go…

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Dan Pelson, the SVP of Global Consumer Marketing at Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), has left the company and joined back as the CEO of music sharing service uPlayMe, again.…

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Sony (NYSE: SNE) reported its Q208 earnings this morning, and the picture isn’t that pretty: it posted a 39 percent fall in quarterly operating profits, hit by losses in its…

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trueAnthem, a developer of widgets for musicians, has raised a $2 million angel round from unidentified investors. The SF-based company offers widgets that bands can use to distribute their music…

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We knew Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Music was shutting down but not that it was planning to take down its DRM servers at the same time. Ars Technica reports that Yahoo…

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-- MPAA creating movie site to fight piracy: The MPAA is developing a yet-to-be named site that will allow users to search for films to legally download photos, purchase box…

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