Telegraph Blogs: Apple announces App Store subscription service
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 13:31
Shane Richmond: "To put [Apple's subscriptions policy] into perspective, here’s what a newspaper pays to a newsagent to sell its papers: about 28 per cent. You can argue all you like about whether or not it’s fair that Apple takes a simil…
Los Angeles Times: Rhapsody considers ‘legal response’ to Apple’s new subscription fee
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 12:45
"Rhapsody, a subscription music service, said today it was mulling over a possible 'legal response' to an announcement by Apple Inc. to charge a 30% fee on subscriptions purchased via applications sold on its iTunes platform."
FT.com: Digital downloads fail to counter CD decline
Thursday, 6 January 2011, 11:02
"Sales of music albums in the UK continued to fall in 2010, as a surge in digital album sales failed to offset the decline in CD sales. The data from the Official Charts Company highlights the continuing transformation of the music market, as cons…
Mirror: Prince – world exclusive interview: Peter Willis goes inside the star’s secret world
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 10:44
"[Prince] explains that he decided the album will be released in CD format only in the Mirror. There'll be no downloads anywhere in the world because of his ongoing battles against internet abuses. Unlike most other rock stars, he has banned YouTube and iTunes from using any of his music and has even closed down his own official website. He says: "The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it."
BusinessWeek: Spotify: Why Europe’s Hit Music Site Isn’t Playing the U.S.
Sunday, 13 June 2010, 09:28
"For more than a year, Spotify's co-founder, Daniel Ek, has been trying to bring the service to the U.S. What's stopping him are the industry's four major record labels … The four big labels want Spotify, now based in London, to junk its free model and find a guaranteed revenue stream it could share with them, say music executives with knowledge of the discussions."
Wired: Listening Post: Amazon Takes On Wikipedia With Editable Music Data
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 09:10
Amazon launches user-editable music database: "To get the ball rolling, Amazon has included music information from its retail site as well as data from the Internet Movie Database and Musicbrainz … As with Wikipedia, users can edit this information, but not directly. All changes must be vetted by Amazon staff before appearing on the site."
Friday, 9 May 2008, 16:18
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"Last.fm, the social music service that CBS Interactive acquired last year, is venturing into original content for the first time with a new video series called Last.fm Presents."
Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 16:37
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"The Government has said it wants to create a new exception to copyright law for private copying, or format shifting, such as the copying of a purchased CD to an MP3 player. "The exception would only apply to personal or private use," says the proposal."
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 15:51
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"Media companies have to take a different approach to protecting their content against illegal copying, says the Web 2.0 guru [Digg chief executive Jay Adelson]"
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 15:51
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"Media companies have to take a different approach to protecting their content against illegal copying, says the Web 2.0 guru [Digg chief executive Jay Adelson]"
