Universal cements music publishing lead: report
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Universal Music's publishing division  has overtaken EMI as the world's leading major music publisher,  according to market research on Monday.
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Universal Music, the world's largest  music company, is teaming up with advertising conglomerate WPP  Group to link bands and brands.
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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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Universal Music seeks millions from Veoh, an online video-sharing site backed by Time Warner, alleging the site is ripping off Universal and its artists. Veoh counters that it removes copyright content when notified and complies with federal law.
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LONDON (Billboard) - The global recorded music market fell for the seventh consecutive year in 2006, and the slide is accelerating in 2007, according to figures published by a music trade group.
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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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With Sony's move to sell music unburdened by digital rights management schemes, all of the Big Four labels have now thrown DRM on the dump heap of history. But Sony and Universal are experimenting with digital watermarking -- an anti-piracy tool that has implications of its own.
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LOS ANGELES -- Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, contends the wildly popular Web sites YouTube and MySpace are violating copyright laws by allowing users to post music videos and other content involving Universal artists.
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Bolt.com says it had agreed to pay a multi-million dollar settlement to Universal Music Group to settle charges of copyright infringement, and has agreed to pay royalities on any future UMG-owned content uploaded.
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After registering music and copyright information in Snocap&#39;s database, labels and artists can manage online distribution through Snocap&#39;s copyright management system, which lets them set rules for each track on a global basis.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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Universal Music Group is seeking a month-by-month licensing deal with Apple Inc.'s iTunes that would no longer guarantee the online music seller access to all Universal content, a person familiar with the negotiations said Monday.
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Universal wants monthly deals to sell its music through Apple's iTunes rather than an annual one, a report says.
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Music publishers and U.S. commercial radio station owners said on Monday they had agreed to a new &#36;1.7 billion deal to cover licensing rights for music played over radio airwaves or via radio station Web sites.
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Universal music renegotiates its deal with Apple's dominant music service.
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Wurld Media has concluded agreements with Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to facilitate the licensing of music exchanged on its peer-to-peer music network.
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Universal Music, home to artists such as U2, The Killers , and Audioslave, will make its catalog of recordings and music videos available for free on an ad-supported web site launching later this year, the site's operator said yesterday.