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Finnish Label to Halt New Signings Until P2P Sites Stopped
Los Angeles - A Finland-based record label has announced that
it will cease signing new artists until "our politicians have stopped the
P2P sites," TorrentFreak reported....
Music Publishers Settle Suit Against Unlicensed Lyrics Site
Washington
- The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) announced on Tuesday that it
has successfully settled its copyright infringement suit against Motive Force
and Sean Colombo, operators...
Guilty File-Swapper Tenenbaum Seeks New Trial
Boston
- Joel Tenenbaum, the Boston-area student who was found guilty of sharing 30 songs
online and ordered to pay the major record labels $675,000 in...
U2's Bono Decries File-Sharing, "Rich Service Providers"
New York
- U2 frontman Bono took to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times over the
weekend, in part to rail against the sharing...
Google Begins Favoring MySpace in Music Stream Links
Mountain View,
Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) appears to have
shifted the bulk of its new music streaming links on search results to
MySpace-owned iLike, pushing Lala --...
Warner Music Brining Artist-focused Channels to Hulu
New York
- Major record label Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has signed a deal to feature its
artists' content on Hulu, the video portal joint venture...
Chinese Sites Ku6, Sohu Establish Anti-Piracy Fund
Beijing
- Chinese content sites Ku6.com and Sohu.com on Monday jointly announced the
creation of a new International Movie & TV Copyright Joint Procurement
Fund, into which...
MySpace Swaps Imeem Web Playlists for Advertisements
San Francisco
- News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace has replaced all of the songs and playlists embedded
around the Web using its recently acquired imeem streaming service...
Qtrax Cancels Dec. 24 Press Event; Promises January Launch
New York
- Qtrax, an ad-supported music download service in the works for years that has
been plagued with launch delays, canceled a press event on...
