Universal To Set Its Music Free
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The world's largest music company will sell restriction-free music downloads at Amazon.com and other online vendors. But not at Apple's iTunes store.
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By Anonymous  Online music stores cheered at EMI's decision to sell their music free of digital rights management (DRM) software. The move will help stores cash in on digital music sales.
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SpiralFrog, a new online music   service, on Tuesday said it reached an agreement with Universal   Music Group to offer free downloads of its songs and is trying   to reach similar deals with other record labels.
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The online retail giant finally unveils its long-awaited music store. In a double punch to Apple, it's DRM-free--and cheaper.
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Arts & entertainment: US government looks into record labels' proposals to offer unlimited music for mobile devices for a flat fee
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Hoping to one-up Apple with its recent move away from digital rights management, high-quality music site MusicGiants began offering DRM-free music recently with the release of Paul McCartney's newest album, Memory Almost Full.
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Blog: The Electronic Freedom Founddation (EFF) has filed suit against the Universal Music Publishing Group in response to Universal's previous action to remove a short home video from You Tube featuring music content protected by a copyright.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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SpiralFrog, a new online music service, on Tuesday said it reached an agreement with Universal Music Group to offer free downloads of its songs and is trying to reach similar deals with other record labels.
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Joining the fight against   Apple's dominance over the portable music market, Universal Music Group   announced Tuesday that it will be making its entire catalog available   for free downloading via the ad-supported Website SpiralFrog.com.
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Despite recent acquisition, DRM-free music should launch in the iTunes store as planned.
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LOS ANGELES -- Three recording companies have agreed to make music available to be shared and sold over an online file-swapping service that aims to lure music fans away from rival services where trading of music and movies remains unfettered.
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Universal Music Group is poised to win a small battle in its war to claim royalties from sites that allow users to upload videos that contain its music.
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Universal Music Group has licensed songs from its stable of artists including U2 and Eminem to a company that has developed technology designed to prevent the unauthorized distribution of audio tracks over online file-sharing networks, a source familiar with the venture said.
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Qtrax will feature tunes from major labels, protected by DRM and supported by ads.
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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.
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The U.K. is looking to change copyright laws that make it illegal to copy music for personal use and for libraries to archive material under copyright.