Norway agency questions Apple music move
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Norway's Consumer Council applauded signs of willingness from Apple Inc. to open its iTunes music store to players other than its iPod, but said Wednesday the company was skirting key issues and passing responsibility to record companies.
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Appleâs popular iTunes music service, for use with Appleâs insanely popular iPod music player, will not be today as planned. Company officials are stressing it will be available âvery soonâ though
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Apple Computer Inc. has struck a defiant stance with Scandinavian regulators, staunchly defending its right to make its iPod the only portable music player compatible with songs purchased from the company's iTunes music store.
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By MAY WONG  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Inc.'s recent rollout of songs without copy protection software at its iTunes Store has given consumers new flexibility, but questions have emerged over the company's inclusion of personal data in purchased music tracks.
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Amazon waited to offer digital music until it could sell unrestricted MP3 files, rather than songs with digital rights management. It may force Apple to compete on price and terms.
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Europeans, you've picked the wrong target Steve Jobs today called on the music labels to license their music free of Digital Rights Managment (DRM) to Apple and others, to create a "truly interoperable music marketplace".â¦
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Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, has declined to sign a long-term deal with Apple Inc.'s iTunes music store, leaving open the possibility for exclusive deals with other services, an industry source said on Sunday.
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Consumer agencies in Sweden, Denmark  and Norway said on Tuesday they made progress in talks with  Apple Computer on complaints its iTunes service breaches  consumer laws, though questions remained to be solved.
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InfoWorld - Just because three major online music retailers bind their music stores to specific portable players doesn&#39;t make it acceptable, a Norwegian consumer group leading the charge against Apple&#39;s DRM (digital rights management) policy says.
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Lost in the fanfare over Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) European Union iTunes Music Store launch last Tuesday was the projected November expansion of the service into Canada.
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Dec. 14--Music fans are forsaking Apple's iTunes music download service  in droves -- a trend that will dash the hopes of music labels like EMI.
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Universal Music Group, the world&#39;s  largest music company, has declined to sign a long-term deal  with Apple Inc.&#39;s iTunes music store, leaving open the  possibility for exclusive deals with other services, an  industry source said on Sunday.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple and four of the biggest record companies have until Wednesday to submit their written response toÂ antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of musicÂ in Europe. The deadline originally expired at the beginning of June, but was extended by two weeks at the request of Apple and three of the record companies, European Commission competition spokesman Jonathan Todd said Monday. The Commission is still waiting for replies from these four companies. The one record company that didn't request an extension has already submitted its written response, Todd said. The Commission has declined to name the record companies involved but they are assumed to be the four majors: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music, and EMI Group. "We have every reason to believe that the remaining companies will reply by the new deadline," Todd said. Downloads from Apple's iTunes Web site are priced differently in different countries in the Union but consumers are prevented from shopping around and have to make their purchases of music from the iTunes site in the country they are based. The Commission said that in the single European market the distribution agreements between the record companies and Apple could amount to restrictive practices. Apple claims it has always tried to operate a single pan-European iTunes store accessible by anyone from any member state but has been prevented from doing so by the record labels and publishers.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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European Union consumer chief Meglena  Kuneva has hit out at Apple Inc.'s  bundling of its  popular iPod music players and its iTunes online music store,  according to German weekly magazine Focus.
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MacCentral - Shortly before Apple's special music event on Tuesday featuring Bono and The Edge from U2, the iTunes Music Store was updated with links to allow residents of nine new countries to buy music online. In addition to the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, iTunes now supports Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
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The European Commission ended its&#160;antitrust investigation into Apple&#160;after the company agreed to reduce the price of music downloads from its iTunes Web site in the U.K., the European Union&#39;s antitrust regulator said Wednesday.
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Apple and four of the biggest record companies this week must submit written responses to antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of music in Europe.