Sony BMG Settles Anti-Piracy CDs Charges
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WASHINGTON -- 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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Qtrax will feature tunes from major labels, protected by DRM and supported by ads.
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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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Amazon announces that it will add music from Sony BMG to its Amazon MP3 digital music download service.
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FTC commissioners have approved a prospective settlement with Sony in the wake of the music company's problematic copy-protection attempts, which included rootkits and phone-home software. Now it's the public's turn to comment on the arrangement.
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Warner Music Group Corp. and AnywhereCD said  they settled disputes over the scope of their agreement and  agreed on dismissing related lawsuits.
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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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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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Vivendi's Universal Music, the world's   largest seller of recorded music, is vaulting to the top spot   in music publishing too after agreeing to buy BMG Music   Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion).
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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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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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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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XM Satellite Radio and Warner Music  Group, the world's third largest music company, said on Friday  they had settled a lawsuit brought by the music company over  XM's portable satellite radio with advanced recording features.
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XM Satellite Radio  and Warner Music Group , the world's third largest music company, said on Friday they had settled a lawsuit brought by the music company over XM's portable satellite radio with advanced recording features.
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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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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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Universal Music Group, the world&#39;s  largest music company, said on Friday it closed its $2.19  billion acquisition of BMG Music Publishing, which means it can  begin to sell off some European publishing rights as directed  by regulators.