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Conspiracy Against Shareaza and Open Letter to the Recording Industry
La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, Shareaza, Azureus and Morpheus. They are suing because recent French legislation suggests that all P2P programs must have a feature to block the transfer of unauthorized copyright media, a feature the mentioned clients don't have. More detailed background to the case can be found here. (02/01) ReadYou may also like
Music program is changing lives of Venezuelan kids
deseretnews.com | 30/06/08 
A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and ... More
Is the Internet Turning Musicians Into Buskers?
Wired News | 01/05/08 
Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ... Read
Apple to Resolve EU Case on ITunes Prices, People Say
Bloomberg | 09/01/08
Apple Inc., the maker of the best- selling iPod media players, will settle European Union claims that its policy of varying prices at its iTunes music ... Read
RIAA Complaint Dismissed in California in Interscope v. Rodriguez.
Recording Industry vs The Peopl | 10/09/07
In a default judgment case in Southern California, Interscope v. Rodriguez, a judge has dismissed the RIAA's "boilerplate" complaint for failing to ... Read
RIAA charged with extortion
p2pnet | 06/06/07
The RIAA Settlement Support Center involved in her case is, she says, "a company organized for the sole purpose of contacting prospective defendants and ... Read
Piano smugglers face the music
Reuters | 13/04/07
Chinese smugglers are suspected of dodging taxes to the tune of $1.3 million in the sale of thousands of imported pianos, with eight separate cases before ... Read
Judge's decision leaves RIAA with lose-lose situation in Elektra v. Santangelo
Ars Technica, | 23/03/07
The case of Elektra v. Santangelo has been one of the more closely followed cases in the RIAA's crusade against suspected file sharers, due in no small ... Read
Apple Knows Who Stole Your iPod
San Diego Reader | 08/09/06
One Monday morning last month, I found that my car, parked on Third Avenue in Hillcrest, had been broken into and my $400 video iPod was gone. After filing ... Read
How Spector evidence stacked up
BBC | 27/09/07
Actress Lana Clarkson was found dead from a gunshot wound to the mouth in Phil Spector's home in California in February 2003. With no witnesses to the ... Read
Kiri Te Kanawa Wins 'Panty-Throwing' Lawsuit
Playbill Arts | 27/03/07
Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa has prevailed in a breach of contract lawsuit brought against her in Australia, a case that achieved global notoriety because of ... Read
Violinist Hits the Streets on a Mission of Musi
The New York Times | 19/10/07
Walking briskly past Lincoln Center with a violin case in hand and a suitcase in tow, David Juritz looked like a busy orchestral musician arriving in the ... Read
Microsoft wins reversal of MP3-patent decision
ZDnet | 07/08/07
The judge of a California district court threw out the damages after finding that a jury improperly ruled that Microsoft infringed one of two patents at ... Read
Spector trial expert backs suicide theory
L.A Times | 27/06/07
Phil Spector's murder defense team began its case Tuesday with testimony from a prominent forensic pathologist who said the circumstances of Lana Clarkson's ... Read
Ashanti testifies in contract case
USA Today | 19/09/06
Ashanti told a courtroom Monday that she was a teenager trying to follow her dream when she worked a decade ago with a producer who wants more than $2 ... Read
50 Cent Talks His Way Out Of The Whole ‘Quit Music' Thing
Hecklerspray | 14/09/07
Clearly, though, that isn't the case - 50 Cent didn't mean that he'd actually quit music, or forever, or if Kanye West sold more albums than him this ... Read
Judge: music labels have to prove sharing
Ars Technica | 26/12/06
The beat goes on in the world of file-sharing litigation. Earlier this week, the case against Patti Santangelo was dismissed without prejudice and refiled, ... Read
RIAA drops file sharing case
Ars Technica | 17/10/06
The RIAA has dropped its case against Chicagoan Paul Wilke, with the two parties moving to dismiss the case with prejudice in federal court late last week. ... Read
Can bad TV save a bad music career?
Times Colonist | 23/06/08
Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ... More
Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales
Reuters | 07/06/08
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ... More
A new harmony for music labels, TV
Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ... More
Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll
The Guardian | 11/05/08
It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ... More
How much should music cost?
Los Angeles Times | 06/05/08
hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ... More
Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands
Timesonline | 04/05/08
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More
Music can be path to language and math
AP Google | 01/05/08
The challenge was to come up with an idea that can transform public education, particularly in poor communities. The winner: an educator with a passion ... Read
No One Likes The Music Labels. Who Cares?
Silicon Alley Insiders | 21/04/08
Newsflash, courtesy of PR agency Edelman: Young people don't feel warmly about the music industry, presumably because they are harshing their mellow and ... Read
Music biz lawyers wary of labels' new grab
Reuters | 29/12/07
Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of ... Read
Further lack of harmony between EMI and top acts
Timesonline | 19/12/07
The relationship between EMI and some of its leading artists soured further yesterday as the record label suggested Robbie Williams's potential departure ... Read
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars
Wired News | 19/12/07
I used to own a record label. That label, Luaka Bop, still exists, though I'm no longer involved in running it. My last record came out through Nonesuch, ... Read
EMI to exit IFPI
Variety | 10/01/08
In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ... Read
Why (And How) I Just Canceled All My Music Subscriptions
Wired News | 28/12/07
Now that three of the four major labels have decided to sell music without DRM, I've finally decided to drop it too. I've subscribed to Napster, Rhapsody, ... Read
The music biz's digital flops - a short history
The Register | 26/05/08
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More
Musopen puts classical recordings, scores in public domain
Ars Technica | 22/05/08
Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ... More
Amazon's CreateSpace Puts Out-Of-Print Music Back On The Market
InformationWeek | 06/05/08
CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ... More
Now hear this: surround sound for MP3
Greater Paramus News | 02/01/08
In the small San Diego County offices of French multimedia giant Thomson, employees crank up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," a recording laden ... Read
RIAA wiped off the net
The Register | 21/01/08
A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an ... Read
Recording industry should brace for more bad news
CNet | 17/01/08
Forget about Warner Music Group's plummeting stock price, or the shrinking retail floor space. Forget about EMI's announcement this week that it's cutting ... Read
EMI to exit IFPI
Variety | 10/01/08
In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ... Read
Trent Reznor is happy to say goodbye
Sootoday.com | 09/10/07
In a short news post on the Nine Inch Nails website, Trent Reznor yesterday announced that his contract with Interscope has been fulfilled and he is now ... Read
RIAA Defendant to Appeal Jury's Verdict
Wired News | 08/10/07
The woman who lost the nation's first Recording Industry Association of America music pirating trial said Monday she is appealing the $222,000 verdict ... Read
Warner Music May Fall on Report Madonna Will Leave
Bloomberg | 11/10/07
Warner Music Group Corp. may fall following a report that Madonna will leave the company and sign a recording and performance contract with Live Nation ... Read
Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper Shit Than We Thought
New York Magazine | 27/11/07
In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, ... Read
Saul Williams Offers Trent Reznor Produced Album For Free
antiMUSIC | 26/10/07
The Fader Label, the recording branch of The Fader, today announced the release of the new recording by esteemed poet, artist and musician Saul Williams: ... Read