SpiralFrog Nabs Beatles Catalog?
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Does the free, ad-based music service's deal with BMI mean the Fab Four's long-awaited online debut is happening? In Listening Post.
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Record labels don't trust us with their music. They need to retune that thinking
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Sean "P. Diddy" Coombs helps Rhapsody and Sandisk launch Rhapsody 4.0 and a new MP3 player. Now you can clone your iTunes collection. In Listening Post. <img src=" http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/music/xml.gif
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Enter the DMD (Digital Memory Device) Exclusive The Official UK Charts Company (OCC), the organisation that maintains the UK's music sales tables, will include albums sold on USB Flash disks in its tallies from next Monday, 29 October, Register Hardware has learned.â¦
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Precious photos and lyrics of the British rock band &quot;The Beatles&quot; were recently stolen in the United States. The items were stolen from a car belonging to George Harrison.
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Will EchoStar's management shuffle make any difference?
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Paul McCartney, George Harrison and the songs of John Lennon can all be found in the top 15 of the U.S. pop album chart, the biggest confluence of ex-Beatles in years.
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Apple said Monday that it had reached an agreement with The Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd., which settles any trademark issues between the two companies. It is not immediately clear, however, if the settlement includes putting the band's music on iTunes.
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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If the Digital Watermarking Alliance has its way, record labels will let their songs be sold as MP3s with embedded watermarks to track the songs in the open seas of the internet. In Listening Post.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple Inc., the computer and digital music company, has bought rights to all "Apple" trademarks from Apple Corps. Ltd., the record company set up by The Beatles, ending aÂ long-running trademark disputeÂ between the two. However, there was no word on whether Apple will soon begin selling The Beatles' music through its iTunes Store. Last year the two companies took a dispute over the trademarks to court in London. Apple Corps. alleged that Apple, then called Apple Computer, had breached a 1991 agreement not to use its apple logo to sell music when it launched the iTunes Store. The companies both use logos based on the fruit: Apple's is a stylized silhouette of one with a bite taken out, while Apple Corp.'s is a more realistic rendering of the fruit. Despite an increasing proportion of Apple's revenue coming from the iTunes-iPod combination, the judge found against the record company in May. Apple's use of the logo was a reasonable one under the terms of the 1991 agreement, as it was clear that Apple was not using the logo to sell music, but to promote a service through which others could sell their music, he found. Under the terms of Monday's deal, Apple will license the Apple name and the green apple logo back to Apple Corps. so that it can continue using them, the two announced Monday. The companies declined to comment on the financial terms of the deal. There was no word, either, on whether Apple will sell The Beatles' music through its iTunes Store. At the end of last year's lawsuit, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said he hoped the two companies would be able to work together to make that happen, but neither company would talk about such a deal Monday. "This decision doesn't have anything to do with that," said Apple Corps. spokeswoman Elizabeth Freund, while a spokeswoman for Apple said "We don't talk about future plans." At EMI Group, the company which holds the publishing rights to The Beatles' music, spokesman Murray Chalmers declined to comment on whether discussions were taking place with Apple. However, he did not rule out the possibility that the music might be sold through the iTunes Store in the future. There are plenty of recordings of The Beatles' hits such as "Come Together" and "Yesterday" available through the iTunes store -- but all recorded by tribute bands.
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Amazon MP3 joins the lineup of digital music stores, selling tunes unencumbered by copy protection technology. Of course, that means some artists are simply unavailable.
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LOS ANGELES -- SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday in the U.S. and Canada after months of "beta" testing.
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An announcement that Beatles tracks will be available for download is denied by the band's record label.
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Keep an eye on Shuffle Master, but don't ante up just yet.
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From Monday the record will be available via nme.com/audio. However, if an interview with Carl Barat in today&#39;s (August 19) The Mirror newspaper is to be believed, it could be their last if Pete Doherty, currently estranged from the band, doesn&#39;t deal ...
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Is the time right for Madison Avenue to pick up the tab for digital music? Listening Post columnist Eliot Van Buskirk takes a look at SpiralFrog.