Music firm OK's free downloads
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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.
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LOS ANGELES - Sony BMG Music Entertainment and online peer-to-peer software distributor Grokster are working on a new venture that is expected to offer paid and free song downloads over the Internet, sources say.
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Almost music-free, too Amazon.com has opened its DRM-free music store for business. Songs are available for $0.89 per song, or $6 to $10 for an album.â¦
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Take your Virtual Wallet music shopping
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"Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that U.S. law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions."  Which of course applies only to US companies.  Kazaa should be free and clear.  ...  Should have supplied a link.  I'm a BAD blogger!
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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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An open-source application for Mac OS X encodes music using just about any audio file format imaginable. In Monkey Bites.
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By Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  May 25--Musicnotes Inc. of Madison said Thursday that it has signed licensing agreements with several thousand music publishers and administrators as part of a bid to build a Web site offering free, legal guitar notation for copyrighted songs.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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Music label Universal has taken steps to allow consumers to listen to its artists legally for free by signing an agreement with new music store entrant SpiralFrog. The service will launch late this year and is based on advertising.
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Apple yesterday launched its iTunes Plus service which makes selected tracks compatible with virtually any MP3 player.   Songs from record label EMI's digital catalogue can now be downloaded without digital rights management (DRM) anti-piracy technology.
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Last.fm users in the U.S., Britain, and Germany can search for an artist and stream a song for free, or pay to download an MP3.
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Music fans have been slow to buy music  on their mobile phones. So several companies have responded  with services that let users access from their phones music  that is stored on their computers.
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Scads of music services are making a power play for your digital dollars. We shine a light into the murk and pick out the gems. By Mathew Honan from Wired Test.
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p2pnet.net News:- Melodeo and Warner Music Group (WMG) say theyâve signed the first global agreement to allow mobile users to âsecurelyâ download complete mp3s from WMG&#39;s music catalog directly to their phones.
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SpiralFrog, a new online music service, said that it had signed an agreement to offer free
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Play.com gets the jump on Apple and Amazon Play.com, the Jersey-based entertainment retailer, has beaten Apple and Amazon to the punch today by opening the UK's first legal digital rights managment-free music download store with major label backing.â¦