Sony BMG Settles Suits Over Antipiracy Program
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Sony BMG will pay $1.5 million and thousands more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits over music CDs that installed a hidden antipiracy program on consumersâ computers.
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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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German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG   BERT.UL said on Wednesday it had settled litigation related   to file-sharing service Napster.
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Social music site Last.fm signs a deal with the Sony BMG record label to offer its catalogue of music.
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The firm behind popular online file-sharing software eDonkey has agreed to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the recording industry, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
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BusinessWeek.com reports that Sony BMG will offer some of its collection free of copy-protection software in coming weeks.
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LOS ANGELES Oct 29, 2004 - 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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Qtrax will feature tunes from major labels, protected by DRM and supported by ads.
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Company agrees to settle charges over copy-protection software it included in music CDs.
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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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A YouTube deal with the British society that collects royalties for composers, songwriters and publishers means artists will be paid for tracks used to back clips on the video-sharing website. The agreement will also give YouTube a defense when media companies holler "piracy."
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- EU regulators gave Universal Music Group clearance Tuesday to buy BMG Music Publishing for about $2.09 billion in a deal that will create the world's largest music publishing company.
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Music companies Sony BMG and EMI Music Publishing have entered into an alliance to introduce new digital products in the US and Canada.
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Sony stops making copy-protected CDs, saying music fans have heeded its anti-piracy message.
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Sony BMG has settled with the Federal Trade Commission, agreeing to reimburse consumers up to $150 for damage to the computers caused by the label's use of rootkits to prevent piracy of its discs.
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And then there were none Sony BMG, the last major record label that won't sell you music without DRM kneecapping will reverse its stance in February, according to a report today.â¦
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The eight percenters A long-running digital music royalties spat between record companies and organisations collecting on artists' behalf has been settled.â¦