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Warner Music Group Corp. Reports Results for the Fiscal First Quarter Ended ...
CNNMoney.com (press release)
Below is the business segment discussion for the quarter. Revenue from the company's Recorded Music business increased 3.4% from the prior-year quarter to ...
Warner posts lossmusicweek.com

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Music Business - Cash in on the Big Show
I-Newswire.com (press release)
Every genre and crowd has their own music business in all major festivals. Between musicians, fans, and press the event can be a practical who is who of any ...


A Big Music Veteran Explains Why Big Music Is Doomed
All Things Digital (blog)
And I'll occasionally talk to someone in the recorded music business who still thinks the labels can pull it off — maybe Spotify will really work, ...
UMG Veteran Bronikowski Headed To Yahoo MusicBillboard Business News
Yahoo Hires Former UMG Exec Bronikowski As New Music ChiefpaidContent.org

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New Book, That's A Rap! To Teach Youth About The Music Industry
South Florida Caribbean News
The music business can be an intimidating and misleading thing for young people to try to understand. That's a Rap! is one of the first books written ...


Telegraph.co.uk

The axe to swing once more at EMI
CMU News-Blog (blog)
As well as preparing a new business development plan to convince Terra Firma investors that they should stump up yet more cash to save the flagging music ...
EMI crashes £1.5bn into the redThe Guardian
The big storiesFinancial Times
Terra Firma to ask investors for £100m to prevent EMI defaultAltAssets
musicweek.com -Music Ally (blog) -Billboard Business News
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Black Rose Productions Inc. Starts 2010 With A Fresh Outlook On Music
I-Newswire.com (press release)
The music business has suffered a blow with the failing markets and has been looking for a way to revive the dying industry. As digital technology grows, ...

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BBC News

R&B Singer Jill Scott Sued by Record Label
ABC News
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - R&B star Jill Scott was sued Wednesday by her longtime record label, which is accusing the ...
Jill Scott Being Sued By Former Record LabelPerezHilton.com (blog)

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BeatCrave.com

Did Taylor Swift's Record Label Defense Help Or Hurt Her?
BeatCrave.com
Secondly, Scott Borchetta, the head of her record label Big Machine Records has fired back at critics for expressing their unhappiness with Swift's ...

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The New Middleclass Musicians: I Fight Dragons
Techdirt
But for the majority of bands that sign with a major record label, they fail to really get big enough to matter, and the labels very quickly drop all ...


Reuters

Are Book Publishers the New Record Labels?
Digitaltrends.com
Like, oh, the battle record companies have waged with digital distribution of music for over 10 years now. As the $1.29 price tag on DRM-free iTunes tracks ...
The Macmillan vs. Amazon ThrowdownHuffington Post (blog)
Macmillan, Amazon battle over e-book pricingEconsultancy (blog)
Hachette joins Apple's anti-Amazon book clubMacDailyNews (blog)
Ars Technica -Marketplace (blog) -CNET
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Reviews | Album Reviews | Various Artists | Si, Para Usted: The Funky Beats of ...
Pitchfork Media
One of my fantasies is to be able to wander through the complete archives of the world's great record labels, neatly ordered and annotated. ...


TopNews New Zealand

Macmillan's War on E-Books
American Conservative Magazine
There was also a high barrier to entry for independent record labels because of the limited physical channels of distribution. You could start a record ...
Electronic commerce: A page is turnedFinancial Times
NSFW: Hey, 1997 – Macmillan called, they want the Net Book Agreement backTechCrunch (blog)

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comScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share
MarketWatch
... to music on mobile phone 11.7% 12.1% 0.4 -------------------- ---- ---- --- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital ...

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DailyTech

Verizon Wireless Expands 3G Wireless Network in Concord, Massachusetts
MarketWatch
With V CAST Music with Rhapsody, customers who purchase music over-the-air can download the master copy of the songs or albums to their PCs free of digital ...
Verizon Makes 3G Expansions in Middlesex CountySoftpedia

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Microsoft To Launch Windows Mobile 7 Next Week
india-server.com
Rumors suggest that the new software is capable of morphing itself into Zune phone bringing the functionality of the Microsoft's Digital music player. ...

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SingTel net income up 34% in Q4, beats estimates
TeleGeography
The operator said the attraction of music services and products such as the Apple iPhone helped increase mobile revenue by 9% year-on-year, while SingTel's ...

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What The Apple iPad Means For Mobile Operators
Fresh Business Thinking
At the start of the 21st Century, Apple revolutionised the digital music player market with the ...

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Mobile Offers

Motorola backs TuneWiki to expand music experience for smartphone users
Mobile Offers
Vodafone recently announced that almost 450000 of its customers had signed up to its music subscription service since digital rights management-free MP3 ...

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BeatCrave.com

Music goes to the Super Bowl: Arcade Fire, Kiss, T-Pain, Grizzly Bear, Jay-Z ...
HitFix
The car company has always done a good job of letting music help make their brand -- a culture brand -- so this will at least appeal to some folks who ...
music & commercials of Super Bowl XLIV (Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, The Who ...Brooklyn Vegan (blog)

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Aussie music venues face tougher regulations, fees
Reuters
BRISBANE, Australia (Billboard) - Touring professionals Down Under fear that new alcohol licensing regulations could strangle the vital pub/club scene in ...

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Billboard.biz Q&A: Verizon Biz Dev Director Ed Ruth
Billboard Business News
In this Q&A preview, Ruth discusses why music licensing costs are holding up mobile music subscription services, the opportunities for artists to go mobile, ...

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Music's New Sound: Name That Brand
Motley Fool
According to Forrester Research, total revenue from music sales and licensing was more than cut in half over the past decade, plunging from $14.6 billion to ...

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Looking at the legacy of Bob Marley
Jamaica Observer
The report went on to state that the major licensing agreements for the Marley brand are about to be launched in two key areas: consumer electronics and ...

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Take Your Studio With You! Indamixx Portable Studio USB Stick Version for ...
PR Web (press release)
Through a strategic licensing agreement, the Indamixx USB Version features the availability of Renoise. "Renoise is one of the most advanced music ...

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'Cove' nets Oscar credits...
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:48:16 EST
Oscar News: Director Psihoyos and producer Stevens designated as nominees -- Helmer Louie Psihoyos and producer Fisher Stevens will be credited as nominees in the Oscar feature documentary category for "The Cove," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has ruled.

Avalos, Eisenson to intervene in WGA case...
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:57:30 EST
Web Exclusive: Objections filed in foreign levy suit against guild -- Several objections have been filed to the proposed settlement in the tangled foreign levies suit against the Writers Guild of America, a month before the final hearing on possible payment of tens of millions of dollars to writers.

Phase 4 finds 'Bliss'...
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST
Exclusives: Company nabs N. American rights to romantic comedy -- Toronto-based Phase 4 Films has picked up North American rights to "Finding Bliss," starring Leelee Sobieski, Denise Richards, Jamie Kennedy and Kristen Johnston.

Heigl in the 'Money'...
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST
Film News: Actress' interest revives Columbia, Lakeshore project -- Katherine Heigl is attached to star in "One for the Money" for Columbia Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment.

Weisz moves in to 'Dream House'...
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST
Film News: Actress joins Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts in thriller -- Rachel Weisz is moving into Morgan Creek's "Dream House."

Kaplan Stahler hires trio...
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:00:00 EST
Gotham: Campbell, Pollack join alternative; Cates set for scripted -- The Kaplan Stahler Agency is beefing up its ranks by hiring a trio of agents: Melissa Campbell and Lisa Pollack in the alternative department and Katie Cates in scripted fare.

Jamie Kitman...
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:42:45 +0000
I don’t even know what kind of Bentley this was.  Other than it was white, had four wheel drive and 660 horsepower. Jamie Kitman.  Do you know him? I do.  He’s the irascible dude in "Automobile" magazine.  The contrarian who occasionally opines on the Op-Ed page of the "New York Times", about the fallacy of both hybrids [...]

Saving Taylor Swift...
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:58:56 +0000
I took a chance, I took a shotAnd you might think I’m bulletproof, but I’m not Silence. It’s always worst in a crisis.  Just ask Tiger Woods. Johnson & Johnson wrote the book on this, with Tylenol.  Remember the capsules with cyanide?  No? Proves the point.  J&J admitted fault, even though the company was not responsible, executed [...]

Salinger...
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:30:06 +0000
After breaking my leg, I moved into a house on Peony Way, in the cinder block suburbs, 103 streets south of the Temple, in the heart of The City of Salt. That’s what we called it.  We outsiders, we Jews, "The City of Salt".  It gave us some distance, prevented us from being swallowed up by [...]

iPad Impact...
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:24:38 +0000
1. Book Pricing Amazon blinked. In case you missed the story, over the weekend Macmillan drew a line in the sand.  No more devaluing our product, no more underselling to boost Kindle market share, we’re not going to let you sell electronic books for $9.99 upon date of hard cover publication. Oh YEAH?? Well, yeah.  You should have seen [...]

Albums vs. Singles...
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:41:08 +0000
There was a space in my bookcase where I kept my cash, waiting for four bucks to accumulate…then I went and bought an album, which I played again and again until I knew every cut, until I accumulated enough money to buy another, when I repeated the process.  You see, music was scarce. Now it’s plentiful. Albums [...]
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