Indies challenge Sony BMG merger
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Independent music companies are launching a legal challenge to the European Union&#39;s decision to allow the merger of Sony and Bertelsmann (BMG).
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Europe's top court said on Thursday  Japanese electronics giant Sony and Germany's Bertelsmann have  appealed against an annulment of their joint venture that  created the world's second-largest music company.
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As new digital-distribution plans gain traction, an inevitable fight over publishing royalties breaks out. If songwriters lose, your ears will suffer. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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The world's second biggest record label, Sony BMG, talks to online file-sharing firm Grokster about possible collaboration.
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NEW YORK - If ever there was a company that could challenge Apple Computer for the dominant position in the still-young digital music space, it should be Sony.
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Sony and Bertelsmann filed an appeal Thursday of a decision that would break up the world's second biggest music label. The EU's Court of First Instance sent the merger proposal back to the European Commission in July.
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment and online peer-to-peer software distributor Grokster are working on a new venture that is expected to offer paid and free song downloads over the Internet, sources say.
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Sony, the Japanese electronics and entertainment group, has approached arch-rival Toshiba in an attempt to prevent a damaging format war over their next-generation DVDs.
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A European indie music label is taking an unusual approach to the issue of CD copy protection - it is branding all its releases with a sticker proclaiming the absence of any such control measure.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has requested information from Sony BMG and Universal Music Group about their talks to launch an online music subscription service, said a record company executive on Thursday.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. will merge with Sony Corp. of America in a deal valued nearly at $5 billion or $12 a share, the company announced late Monday.
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EMI and Sony BMG have reached a deal to get more music and other products distributed using the Internet in the US and Canada. The cooperation deal covers new DualDisc products, ring tones
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Sony's three-year effort to beat Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store is over. The company will shutter its Connect music store and adopt Windows Media DRM.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has  requested information from Sony BMG and Universal Music Group  about their talks to launch an online music subscription  service, said a record company executive on Thursday.
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Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have refiled a request for EU regulators to clear a 2004 deal merging their music units, the European Commission said Thursday.
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The urge to merge within both the recording and satellite radio industries this week reflects how tough it is to compete profitably within the evolving digital media market.
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Far from soothing the savage breast, music is driving some of the world&#39;s largest companies into a frenzy of competition. At stake is participation in, if not command of, a multibillion-dollar