Lloyd Webber, Universal Music tune up digital rights
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The hit show tunes of musical  impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber tapped a major new revenue  stream Monday with a groundbreaking deal between Universal  Music and Webber's London-based company.
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A licensing agreement currently in the final stages of negotiation may provide consumers with the right to legally make copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they've purchased. Such an arrangement would address a primary concern of DRM critics, who argue that consumers deserve the right to create backups without being accused of piracy.
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Three major record labels have inked a deal with a peer-to-peer company to bring paid song downloads to music fans, apparently supporting a technology that the industry has tried to stifle in the past.
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Universal Music teams up with global advertising group WPP to specialise in licensing music for commercials.
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Music promoter the Mean Fiddler has signed a deal with Universal Records that will let fans download live tracks from bands who are playing at events such as the Reading Festival.
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Wurld Media has concluded agreements with Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to facilitate the licensing of music exchanged on its peer-to-peer music network.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - In a bold move to pave the way for  more widespread licensing of music publishing rights, EMI Music  Publishing and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have entered an  umbrella agreement that sets working guidelines for clearing  rights to new digital music delivery opportunities on phones,  PCs, digital cable systems and emerging physical  configurations.
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The label has announced a deal that allows Amazon to sell DRM-free tracks through its online music store.
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Watching "premium content" in Windows Vista requires users to play nice with Microsoft's built-in digital rights controls. In Monkey Bites.
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There may be a compromise in the works between music webcasters and a group that represents performers and record companies over an upcoming rate increase for playing music over Internet radio.
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Authors and composers have until July  9 to comment on proposed new EU rules loosening restrictive  territorial contracts for copyright registration on the  Internet, satellite and cable retransmission of music.
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Online retailer Amazon.com Inc   said on Sunday it will begin an international roll-out  this year of its digital music store that offers songs without  copy-protection technology known as digital rights management.
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Universal Music Group has licensed songs from its stable of artists including U2 and Eminem to a company that has developed technology designed to prevent the unauthorized distribution of audio tracks over online file-sharing networks, a source familiar with the venture said.
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THREE major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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Then charges back out again The world's biggest record label is touting a scheme that would permit internet users to swap DRM-free music under a blanket license, according to a report. Universal Music Group's "TotalMusic" program would allow customers of ISPs who signed up to the program to exchange files freely - but only if the ISP signed up.â¦
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Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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Online retailer Amazon.com Inc   said on Thursday its digital music store will now  offer songs by artists on the roster of Sony BMG Music  Entertainment without copy-protection technology, known as  digital rights management.