EMI publishing in downloads deal
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EMI Music Publishing signs a deal to make its music catalogue available on the online music service Spiralfrog.
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Universal Music's publishing division  has overtaken EMI as the world's leading major music publisher,  according to market research on Monday.
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Company agrees to settle charges over copy-protection software it included in music CDs.
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U.S. Warner Music Group  has bid  2.5 billion pounds (&#36;4.6 billion) for Britain&#039;s EMI Group Plc   in an attempt to take control of the company that has  been pursuing it, the Financial Times said on Wednesday.
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Vivendi's Universal Music has agreed to  buy BMG Music Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion)  in a long-expected deal that makes the world's biggest seller  of recorded music also the largest in music publishing.
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Apple and EMI's agreement to offer DRM-free music tracks is unlikely to be threatened by the record label's changing ownership. In fact, say some analysts, the choice may have been a demonstration to potential investors of the company's forward-thinking ways.
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Dec. 14--Music fans are forsaking Apple's iTunes music download service  in droves -- a trend that will dash the hopes of music labels like EMI.
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The Google video-sharing site has agreed to a deal with the EMI Group to give YouTube users broad access to music videos by EMI artists.
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Warner Music Group has made a bid approach for Britain's EMI  despite uncertainty over whether any deal would win regulatory approval, in the latest twist in a seven-year tit-for-tat takeover battle.
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LOS ANGELES -  The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection. Major label EMI - home of Coldplay and Norah Jones - is in discussions with online music stores about selling its music without copy protection, or digital rights management (DRM), according to two sources with direct knowledge of the talks who would not speak for attribution because discussions are ongoing.
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A music publishing group with the rights to songs by Robbie Williams and Coldplay agreed to be taken over in a pounds 1bn deal yesterday.
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The HMV Group plc, one of the UK&#39;s leading retailers of music, have announced a partnership with Microsoft which will allow them to offer a music download service.
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EMI, the world's third largest music label, is actively considering removing the digital rights management restrictions from its song catalog and selling tracks online in MP3 format, according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal Friday.
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Warner Music confirmed on Tuesday that  it had approached EMI about a possible acquisition of the  entire equity of the British firm and had secured the support  of the independent label group Impala.
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EMI signalled today it was winning the war against piracy after sales of downloaded music surged six-fold over the summer. The group unveiled profits of Â£36.9million for the six months to September 30, up 9% on a year ago.
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EMI has seen download music sales rise by almost 600% in the six months to the end of September, and says they are becoming a major part of its business.
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LONDON -- The long courtship between EMI Group PLC and Warner Music Group is on again. EMI confirmed Tuesday that it had received an approach from Warner about a possible bid.