Bertelsmann, music publishers group settle
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Bertelsmann AG settled a lawsuit filed  by the National Music Publishers&#39; Association that charged the  media company&#39;s investment in file sharing service Napster  encouraged the abuse of copyrighted content.
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In one of those &quot;legal&quot; announcements which leaves the curious unsatisfied Sendo and Microsoft have announced they have settled their dispute.
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Vivendi's Universal Music has agreed to  buy BMG Music Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion)  in a long-expected deal that makes the world's biggest seller  of recorded music also the largest in music publishing.
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The nearly $2.1 billion deal would make Universal the worldÂs largest music publisher, with a catalog that includes performers of the standing of Elton John and B. B. King.
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Universal Music Group has settled litigation against Germany's Bertelsmann AG over its $85 million investment in the original peer-to-peer service Napster.
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German media giant Bertelsmann said it had agreed to sell its BMG Music Publishing arm to French group Vivendi for 1.63 billion euros (two billion dollars).
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Bertelsmann AG plans to retain ownership  of Sony BMG after determining it can afford to pay 4.5 billion  euros (&#36;5.8 billion) to buy back a stake in the German media  conglomerate without selling its half of the world&#039;s second  biggest music company.
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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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Google has reached an agreement with two groups representing authors and photographers in Belgium that had objected to the way the company indexes and displays their content on its Google News Web site.
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German media conglomerate Bertelsmann  will buy out the 25-percent stake held by Belgium&#039;s richest  man, Albert Frere, for 4.5 billion euros (&#36;5.8 billion) and  thereby avoid a public listing of the family company.
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Penguin Audio, one of five publishers to sign with eMusic.com, a rival of Appleâs iTunes, has bailed out, withdrawing 150 titles over concerns about digital piracy.
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The EU's top court should back a ruling that overturned regulatory approval for Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG's 2004 deal to combine their music units and form the world's second-largest record label, a legal adviser to the EU's highest court said Thursday.
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FRANKFURT Bertelsmann, the world&#39;s fourth-largest media group, is looking for acquisitions that could include part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the company said on Wednesday.
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Engadget.com has resolved a dispute with the software giant over proprietary content.
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Memoirist James Frey and Random House, Inc. have agreed in principle to settle lawsuits filed by readers who said they were defrauded by fabrications in Frey's million-selling book, "A Million Little Pieces," the publisher said.
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BERLIN -- German media company Bertelsmann AG has signed a "definitive agreement" to sell BMG Music Publishing Group to Vivendi for $2.09 billion, the companies announced Wednesday.
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In the wake of fallout over a Microsoft attorney's public comments yesterday, chastising arch-rival Google for an effort he said would undermine the rights of copyright holders worldwide, the Bavarian State Library has signed a pact with Google Book Search that will enable the search provider to index and publish online a major portion of its holdings.