Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
New York - Universal Music Group has signed a deal to license its catalog to Deezer (formerly Blogmusik), a France-based, ad-supported music streaming service, read more
AterSlash (Free subscription) | yesterday
“He who has the gold, makes the rules.” Well, ok. Technically, the rules aren't being made here, but this is just another example of the perversion of justice that exists among the elite in America. By and large, the America’s “upper class”, which include the wealthy, the politicians, celebrities, athletes, and corporations, aren't subject to the same blind justice as everyone else in this country....
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Universal Music Group loves the idea of suing music fans for the full freight when it comes to copyright infringement, celebrating their ability to extract $150,000 per act of infringement with punitive damages on top -- but now that Universal's been slapped with one of these copyright suits (for sampling Hendrix without permission, something I think they should be...
CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | yesterday
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Why would UMG, one of the four major RIAA members, consider an infringement award ‘grossly excessive’? Naturally, because they were the ones ordered to pay it. While they had no trouble with Jammie Thomas being ordered to pay $222k, some 13,214 times the actual costs, they thought that [...]
Entertainment Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earnings: Vivendi Q1 Profits Fall 5.6 Percent; Universal Music …Washington Post, United States - 1 hour agoHighlights from the owner of Universal Music Group, Vivendi Games, Maroc Telecom and other media properties included: — UMG: The music label's EBITA was …Vivendi Net Falls 40% After Year-Earlier Sale Gain Wall Street JournalVivendi First-Quarter Profit...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | yesterday
Big Four record label UMG convinced federal judges last year that paying huge punitive penalties was unconstitutional, but record labels seem to have no problems with filing massive damage claims against non-commercial file-swappers. Double standard, or two entirely different issues? Read More...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Universal Music Group solves the "how are we ever going to sell music again" riddle: Just find a starlet who spends equal amounts of time in trouble and in the tabloids. And make sure -- this part is actually important -- she makes music people like. Vivendi's music label says that Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black" album sold an additional 2.2 million copies...
TechDigest (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a shaky start that'd make even Michael J. Fox sympathise, Qtrax has signed up their fourth record label, Warner/Chappell. You might remember that late January Qtrax claimed they had support from Universal Music Group, Warner Music, Sony BMG and EMI, when in actual fact they'd forgotten one important thing...to run it by all four companies first...
Billboard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Country superstar Shania Twain and her mega-producer husband, Robert "Mutt" Lange, are separating after 14 years of marriage, according to Twain's spokesperson at Universal Music Group Nashville.
Recording Industry vs The People (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
In the case of Bridgeport Music v. Justin Combs Publishing , UMG and Universal -- two of the most frequent RIAA plaintiffs -- successfully argued that a jury's award of punitive damages in a copyright infringement case, which exceeded the plaintiff's actual damages by a ratio of more than 10:1, was unconstitutional as being violative of due process. [Ed. note. The jury's award in Capitol v. Thomas...
The Click Heard Round the World (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
I just got a notice of violation of copyright from YouTube for one of my machinima videos, which you can see above. Instead of the usual takedown notice though, here's what they sent me: UMG has claimed some or all...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Los Angeles - Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) recently doled out one-time bonus checks to independent digital music distributors including The Orchard (NASD: ORCD) and IODA, apparently to balance out the reported $1 per Zune sold it has granted to major labels including Universal Music Group, Hypebot reported. Both distributors plan to share the revenue with their label and artist...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The intellectual property is now being licensed to media companies interested in delivering their content within targeted, personalized experiences. “Gotuit's broad vision for the use of metadata to personalize one’s music experience will enable us and our distribution partners to craft new, innovative digital music services for the benefit of our artists and their fans,” explained Larry...
TechDigest (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
So, it looks like the 100% legal and free music download website Qtrax has finally pulled off something near to what it claimed to have achieved when it launched to a stutter back in January. Finally one of the major record labels has seen sense, with Universal Music Group putting pen to paper...
Electronista (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Peer-to-peer music service Qtrax may be more than three months late, but new reports have the company finally signing a deal with Universal Music Group. Back in January, the new company announced it would work with the four major labels to bring user...
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molly-the-cat | 10/28/2007
According to a legal document published at the Electronic Frontier Foundation site, the copyright Nazis at Universal Music Group might have bitten off more than they can chew when they ordered the removal of a Dancing baby clip from YouTube. The Dancing Baby is fighting back after music industry copyright nazis ordered it to stop bopping on YouTube...
