Dutch group loses bid for MP3 player levy
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A Dutch rights organization which  compensates artists for the use of their copyrighted material  on Tuesday lost its court bid to remove a government block on  new levies on MP3 media players.
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EMI, the struggling British music company, said Friday that it had rejected an informal takeover bid by US rival Warner Music Group, claiming the cash offer worth 2.08 billion pounds (3.07 billion euros, 4.05 billion dollars) was &quot;inadequate.&quot;
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Warner Music rejects Apple's call for the removal of copy protection software from music downloads.
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JOHANNESBURG  - South African mining group Harmony has lost the latest round in a hostile takeover of rival Gold Fields when a court rejected an urgent attempt to appeal against a ruling frustrating its bid to create the world&#39;s largest gold producer
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Ongoing patent infringement suit had barred SanDisk from showing its MP3 players until trade show's last day.
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Google Inc. lost a copyright fight on Tuesday that had been launched by Belgian newspapers, which claimed that the Web search service infringed copyright laws and demanded it remove their stories.
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'Too slow, too low' EMI's board today rejected an approach by Warner Music Group, saying the price was too low and the format of the bid too cumbersome.â¦
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Warner Music Group Corp. said on  Tuesday it decided against bidding for British rival EMI Group  Plc, two days before a deadline to submit an offer loomed.
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Britain's EMI Group Plc  rejected a 2.1-billion-pound ($4.1 billion) cash takeover proposal from Warner Music Group , saying the price was inadequate and not in the best interests of its shareholders.
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The entertainment industry achieved a key victory Thursday after a Dutch Internet service provider surrendered the name and address of one of its customers suspected of illegal file-sharing.
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Action needs to be taken where harm was done An attempt by Flash memory card maker SanDisk to take on a group of MP3-related patent holders has failed in an English court. The High Court said all of SanDisk's claims fell outside the court's jurisdiction of England and Wales.â¦
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Warner Music Group Corp. said on  Tuesday it decided against bidding for rival EMI Group Plc, two  days before a deadline to submit an offer.
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EMI, the world's third largest record label, has officially rejected a $4.1 billion takeover offer from the world's fourth largest label, Warner Music. EMI on Friday held a board meeting to discuss the "non-binding proposal" and decided it was not good for shareholders.
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The former New York Stock Exchange chairman lost his bid to have the lawsuit over his controversial $187.5 million pay package moved from the New York court where it was filed by state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
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Major press sources including The New York Times this morning are citing anonymous executives reportedly with direct involvement in negotiations, as saying Universal Music Group has opted not to renew its annual contract with Apple's iTunes. The company will instead opt for a month-by-month arrangement, similar to what it has with smaller MP3 distributors.
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The Universal Music Group of Vivendi, the worldâs biggest music corporation, last week notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes.
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A Belgian court dealt a blow to Google by ruling against the US Internet giant in a copyright case lodged by French-language Belgian newspapers and closely watched by other media.