Who Owns the Live Music of Days Gone By?
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Radio and TV show archives have become valuable prizes in the desperate search for new content for Web sites and DVDs.
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Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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British rock band Marillion has gone a step further. Since striking off on its own in 2000, the band has used its online site, http://marillion.com, to raise over 500,000 pounds (&#36;913,200) from fans to finance its last two albums and support its first North American tour since 1995.
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Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 1--When Tower Records' Web site was sold to a Canadian company recently, the buyer hired a group of former Tower employees to revitalize the business from a base in Sacramento.
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Is song from "Once" getting the once over?.
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Blog: Former Talking Heads band member Jerry Harrison says the future of digital music may not involve either cyber stores or physical ones. What then?
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London will be equipped with vending machines that sell individual songs.    Also: Adobe Reader 7.0 lets viewers edit text on Acrobat & hellip;.  Yahoo competes with rivals by expanding its free e-mail storage space  & hellip;. and more.
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Patent infringement claim A German court has ruled that local Public Prosecution officers were right to seize SanDisk digital music players at the IFA consumer electronics show held in Berlin last September. SanDisk's players are accused of incorporating without permission technology owned by a number of European firms.â¦
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British rock band Marillion has gone a step further. Since striking off on its own in 2000, the group has used its online site, http://marillion.com, to raise over 500,000 pounds (&#36;913,200) from fans to finance its last two albums and support its first North American tour since 1995.
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Three plays, then subscribe London-based music site Last.fm announced today that it has convinced all four major record labels to let its users listen to their catalogues on demand and for free, worldwide. There's a catch, though - listeners are limited to three plays of a particular song. Last.fm will offer a new subscription package for what it calls "unlimited access".â¦
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Covent Gardenâs purchase of a for-profit maker and producer of performance DVDs is unheard of in the performing-arts world.
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Wednesday was the first day in the life of a new Central License Agreement for music copyright holders throughout Europe. Now, license authorities and music publishers have agreed to dismantle their "home territories" and recognize each other's copyrights. Is this the prototype for the EU's new single software patent authority?
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Want to listen to a live recording, but don't want to risk potential problems from using a file sharing network like Kazaa or Morpheus?  The Live Music Archive offers thousands of hours of free, legal music, available on demand.
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Music promoter the Mean Fiddler has signed a deal with Universal Records that will let fans download live tracks from bands who are playing at events such as the Reading Festival.
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DRM-free tracks can be traced to original owner Apple's much touted DRM-free music download service launched yesterday under the moniker iTunes Plus.â¦
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With digital rights management on music purchases now the norm, record labels have turned to a unique, if not ironic, approach to gain added promotion: DRM-free tracks. Hollywood Records has teamed up with Yahoo to do just that, selling a special MP3 version of Jesse McCartney's new album Right Where You Want Me.