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Report: Spotify Label Payments Total $41 Million in 2010
London - Streaming music service Spotify has paid out $41
million in royalties to rightsholders in the first eight months of 2010, the
company tells Music...
RIAA Asks Court to Nix Reduced File-Sharing Damages Award
Los Angeles - The Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) has filed a brief seeking to overturn a federal judge's reduction of
damages in a file-sharing...
Universal Music Names Rob Wells President of Global Digital
Santa Monica, Calif. - Major record label Universal Music
Group announced on Thursday that it has promoted Rob Wells to the new created
position of president...
Getty Images to Offer Sony/ATV's Spin City Music Library
New York - Stock photography and digital media distributor
Getty Images said on Thursday that it has signed a deal with Sony/ATV Music
Publishing, to distribute...
Report: Spotify Offering "Big Money Advances" to Record Labels
San Francisco - European streaming music service Spotify is
"closer than ever" to signing licensing agreements with the four
major record labels that are necessary to...
MySpace Debuts 'Social Entertainment' Site Redesign
Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace online social network on
Wednesday unveiled a long-awaited redesign of the site in beta, which now
positions itself...
LimeWire to Halt Distribution, Support of File-Sharing Software
Los Angeles - The company behind veteran music file-sharing
application LimeWire, announced that it will stop distributing and supporting
the application in order to comply with...
NAB Compromise on Radio Royalties Includes FM Phone Chips
Washington - The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB),
a trade group representing radio stations, TV networks and others, has
submitted a proposal aiming to settle an...
Lady Gaga Music Videos Hit 1 Billion YouTube Views
Los Angeles - Recording artist Lady Gaga's music videos have
surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube (NASD: GOOG), according to a post from the artist to
her...
Microsoft Offers $150 Annual Zune Pass Subscription
Los Angeles - Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has launched a new Annual Zune Pass
subscription tier on the service, which costs $150 per year, Ars Technica
reported. The...
