Apple Is Called Poised to Offer ‘Cloud’ Music
Apple has entered the final stages of negotiations with the major record labels and music publishers for a service that will allow people to upload and store their music on the Web and listen to it on...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Blog: In EMI Bid, Universal Considers a Sale
To get European regulators to approve its $1.9 billion takeover of EMI, the Universal Music Group may do something once considered unthinkable: sell Parlophone Records, which releases the music of...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Blog: Re-emerging BMG Buys Rights to ’80s Hits From Culture...
2:51 p.m. | Updated BMG Rights Management, which in just four years has become a major music-publishing company, has expanded once again with a $90 million deal for some 30,000 songs, including a slew...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Blog: Sony Makes Deal for Electronic Dance Music
In the latest sign of the music industry’s gold rush over electronic dance music, Sony Music has struck a deal with a leading independent dance label, Ultra Music. The arrangement calls for the labels...
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