Smithsonian Folkways Inks Deal with Ryko
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New York-based Ryko Distribution will handle Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum.
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Private investment firm JDS Capital Management, Inc. on Thursday said it acquired DreamWorks Music Publishing, a unit of the DreamWorks entertainment group that holds the rights to music by legendary artists John Denver and The Byrds and popular tracks including "The Thong Song" and "Take the A Train."
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Some of Elvis Presley's first RCA  recordings from nearly 50 years ago, including  never-before-heard takes of "All Shook Up" and "Jailhouse  Rock," will be put up for bid on Sunday at an auction of show  business memorabilia.
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RKO Productions is the  latest company to sign an interim comprehensive agreement with  the Writers Guild of America, the guild announced Friday.
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EMI Music and Snocap will announce that Snocap will sell the labelâs music in its MyStores, online shops that can be added to various sites on the Internet.
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LOS ANGELES - This song is my song, this song is your song. That's the agreement reached between the publishers of Woody Guthrie's classic "This Land is Your Land" and JibJab Media, creators of an animated Internet short that uses the tune in a comic sendup of President Bush and Sen...
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These funds are going for a song, but are they worth the price?
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eDonkey seeks sanctuary, finds knackers' yard eDonkey is off to the knackers' yard, after a New York court ruled that the peer-to-peer (P2P) site enabled users to swap copyright material illegally. eDonkeyâs owner, New York-based MetaMachine, is ponying up $30m to settle a copyright suit brought by six record companies. MetaMachine has another P2P network, called Overnet, which the NY court also deems illegal.â¦
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Talk about changing your tune: Shawn Fanning, whose Napster software made it possible for music lovers to get songs over the Internet without paying for them, is going legit.
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A Texas bookstore owner bought a rare page of working lyrics for Beatle Paul McCartney's song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" for $192,000 at an auction of rock and pop memorabilia at Christie's on Monday.
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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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Apple Computer Inc. has updated the software for some of its iPod digital media players so that songs bought from RealNetworks Inc.
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MetaMachine, the company behind the popular file sharing software eDonkey, has agreed to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $30 million to settle claims it facilitated mass copyright infringement.
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Following an agreement with Universal late last month, SpiralFrog has struck a deal to bring EMI's catalog of musical arists to the advertising-supported music store. The publisher is the world's largest, and adds many top artists to the new service.
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Coldplay&#39;s Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland, Nellie McKay and Rilo Kiley have signed on for influential California radio station KCRW&#39;s fourth annual benefit concert, A Sounds Eclectic Evening. Additional artists will be added to the bill for the event, ...
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WASHINGTON  --  Exasperated listeners weary of hearing the same songs over and over on the radio may have something to cheer about in a pair of innovative deals that could shake up the music playlists of some of the nation's largest radio-station chains.
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Country singer Loretta Lynn is trying to gain the copyright to "Coal Miner's Daughter" and other of her hit songs.