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Paul Resnikoff
March 6, 2007
Yahoo China operator Alibaba is now on the receiving end of a major lawsuit, one that includes plaintiffs Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. In total, a group of eleven music companies have target... Read More...

ASCAP Reports Record 2006 Revenues, Royalties

Paul Resnikoff
March 6, 2007
The recording industry may be bleeding, but other areas of the music business are growing, and even booming in some cases. The latest example comes from the publishing sector, specifically performance rights... Read More...

EA Puts Karaoke Acquisition Into Motion, Spins Lily Allen Promotion

Paul Resnikoff
March 6, 2007
Gaming giant Electronic Arts pushed its music ambitions further this week by spinning a Lily Allen karaoke contest. The feature ties in alter-reality game The Sims 2, and requires contestants to enter using the Simlish language.  Allen recorded a version of... Read More...

RIAA Pushes Pre-Lawsuit Settlement Plan Further

Paul Resnikoff
March 1, 2007
The RIAA continued to offer pre-lawsuit settlement options for accused file-swappers this week. The latest component to the plan involves an easy online resource for pre-lawsuit settlements and payments.  Th... Read More...

Electronic Arts Positions Entire Catalog on iTunes Store

Alexandra Osorio
March 1, 2007
Gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) has now positioned tracks from its entire catalog onto the iTunes Store, part of a diversification play for the company. The songs, pulled from titles like Need for Speed, M... Read More...
Michael Jackson receives the MTV Video Vanguard award in 1989.

Interscope, James Cameron Develop 3D Music Experiences

Paul Resnikoff
March 1, 2007
The industry changed forever in the 80s, thanks to the advent of MTV and its then stock-and-trade music video. Suddenly, imaging and artist mystique attained new levels, and artists with a command of the camera generated serious sales.  And despite limitati... Read More...

Music Social Networking Service iLike Surpasses 500,000

Alexandra Osorio
February 28, 2007
Music-focused social networking destination iLike has now reached 500,000 subscribers, according to a company announcement issued Wednesday. The company is part of a growing sector, one that also includes up... Read More...

ROO Group Acquires P2P Specialist Wurld Media, $10 Million Deal

Alexandra Osorio
February 27, 2007
New York-based ROO Group has now announced plans to purchase the assets of Wurld Media, a company specialized in secure P2P media delivery. ROO, a provider of video solutions for large enterprises, will make... Read More...

Legislators Push DMCA Amendments, Back Fair Use Modifications

Paul Resnikoff
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Lawmakers Rich Boucher (D-Va) and John Doolittle (R-Ca) recently introduced a bill to amend aspects of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which the pair claims is overly skewed towards the interests of content creators. Dubbed the "Freedom an... Read More...

Executives Weigh Microsoft Decision, Next Steps Uncertain

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Microsoft was dealt a massive, $1.52 billion patent fine late last week, a thud that quickly reverberated through the industry. The award, granted to Alcatel-Lucent, was calculated based on the amount of PCs... Read More...

MySpace Celebrity Tila Tequila Releases iTunes Single

Paul Resnikoff
February 25, 2007
MySpace celebrity Tila Tequila is now branching into music with a do-it-yourself game plan. Tequila, who has over 1.7 million MySpace friends, is releasing her first single, "I Love U," exclusively on iTunes... Read More...

Dark Horse Patent Owner Sues Apple, Samsung, SanDisk

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February 25, 2007
A relatively unknown firm has now sued Apple, Samsung, and SanDisk over a patent related to an "MPEG portable sound reproducing system." The suit, which surfaced last week in Marshall, Texas, was filed by a company called Texas MP3 Technologies.  The locati... Read More...
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