Sony BMG settles anti-piracy CDs charges
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U.S. regulators said Tuesday that Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to reimburse consumers up to $150 for damage to their computers from CDs with hidden anti-piracy software.
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Music publishers and U.S. commercial  radio station owners said on Monday they had agreed to a new  $1.7 billion deal to cover licensing rights for music played  over radio airwaves or via radio station Web sites.
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Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in  penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose  computers were harmed by anti-piracy software on some CDs sold  by the record company, California officials said on Tuesday.
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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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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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LOS ANGELES (IFPI) - The company and operators behind the Puretunes.com website, an online service which formerly sold unauthorized unlimited music downloads, have agreed to an out-of-court settlement of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought last year
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German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG   said on Wednesday it had settled litigation related  to file-sharing service Napster.
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Universal Music Group, a unit of France's  Vivendi, and Bolt Inc. said they reached an out-of-court  settlement resolving the copyright infringement lawsuit brought  by UMG against Bolt last year.
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Online retailer Amazon.com Inc   said on Thursday its digital music store will now  offer songs from Sony BMG Music Entertainment without  copy-protection technology, or digital rights management.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has agreed to settle a multimillion dollar lawsuit brought by thousands of Iowa consumers and businesses who say the company&#39;s anticompetitive practices forced them to pay inflated prices for software including Microsoft&#39;s Windows, Word and Excel.
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Sony BMG is suing the company that designed its controversial CD anti-piracy software.
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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 settlement between Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the states of California and Texas also includes free albums for affected consumers. In Listening Post.
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Sony has embarked on a potential collision course with music groups, including its own Sony BMG joint venture, over MP3 digital song files.
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Trying to recoup its losses as a result of placing anti-piracy software on its music CDs, Sony BMG sued the company responsible for the technology, it said on Thursday.
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Company agrees to settle charges over copy-protection software it included in music CDs.
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Media group Bertelsmann agrees to sell its BMG Music Publishing to Vivendi's Universal Music for 1.63bn euros.