Shanda and Universal Music Team Up to Launch a New Digital Entertainment Service to Music Consumers in China
SHANGHAI, China (Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited/ www.snda.com) - Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, the largest operator of online games in China, today announced a strategic partnership with Universal Music, the world's leading music company. Pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, ...
| Toshiba Launches 'Music in Color'
WAYNE, N.J. (Toahiba PR/ www.gigabeat.com) - Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C., ("Toshiba") long a leader in DVD and storage devices announces the spring 2005 availability of gigabeat, the first in the Toshiba gigastyle family of products announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. The ...
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Music Experts Predict 'Tremendous' Future for Record Industry
LOS
ANGELES (NARIP) - In front of a packed ballroom in the Beverly Garland
Holiday Inn, Tess Taylor, President of NARIP (National Association of
Record Industry Professionals), led a panel discussion entitled
"A&R Think Tank: New Realities of Finding New Recording Artists."On
the panel with ...
| Look At All The Love We Found: A Tribute To Sublime
LOS
ANGELES (MusiCares announcement) - Look at all the Love We Found: A
Tribute to Sublime is set to be released nationally on June 21, 2005.
Nearly a decade since the release of the multi-platinum Sublime
self-titled juggernaut, an amazing list of artists has convened to
recreate many of these ...
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Music file-sharers face biggest round of legal actions yet; many are already counting the cost
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - 963 new actions launched in 11 countries in Europe and Asia Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Japan pursue illegal song-swappers for the first time New P2P applications targeted: eDonkey, DirectConnect, BitTorrent, Gnutella First year of legal actions in Europe shows results: ...
| Hustler Hollywood Launches New Record Label
LOS ANGELES (Hustler Hollywood Records/ www.hustlerevents.com) - Hustler Hollywood's stable of successful entertainment properties grows with the addition of a new record label. Hustler Hollywood Records' mission is to deliver a cadre of new, cutting-edge faces to the music-buying public. This commitment ...
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Richard Blackstone to Be Named Chairman and CEO of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
NEW YORK (Warner Bros.) - Warner Music Group (WMG) announced today that Richard Blackstone, president of Zomba Music Publishing, will be named Chairman and CEO of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., the company's worldwide music-publishing division. Upon the expiration of his current agreement with Zomba, ...
| MusicNet Announces Major Partnership With HMV to Support UK Retailer's New Digital Music Downloading Service
NEW YORK (MusicNet/ www.musicnet.com) - MusicNet, the world's leading digital music service provider, today announced that it has entered into a long-term partnership with HMV, the UK's leading music, dvd and games specialist, in support of its new digital downloading service. The market-leading retailer ...
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AristoMedia's 25th Anniversary!
NASHVILLE, TN. (AristoMedia PR) - AristoMedia, the Nashville-based media marketing company, is celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary. The company was formed in April 1980 as a publicity/public relations entity and has since evolved into a full-fledged media marketing organization. The company?s five ...
| Universal Music Netherlands chooses ClearPeaks' ReportMessenger Report Delivery Software
BARCELONA, Spain (ClearPeaks/ www.clearpeaks.com) - Universal Music Netherlands recently chose ClearPeaks' ReportMessenger 3.2 report delivery solution to handle its business intelligence (BI) report distribution needs. ReportMessenger automatically refreshes, personalizes and quickly distributes BusinessObjects ...
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Submarino Announces Partnership with MTV Brazil
SAO PAULO, Brazil - (Submarino/ www.submarino.com.br) - Submarino S.A. announces its partnership with MTV Brazil. Submarino inaugurated "MTV World," a dedicated section in its website (www.submarino.com.br) for sale of MTV products and other musical releases. Similarly, MTV launched the "MTV Store" ...
| BMI and Muzak Reach Agreement to Settle Rate Court Proceeding; Same Terms Offered To All Background Music Providers
NASHVILLE, TN. (BMI) - BMI has secured new licensing agreements with Muzak LLC and Muzak affiliates setting new licensing fees for the background music services for the BMI repertoire of 4.5 million musical works. Muzak and its 110 affiliates serve approximately 60% of U.S. businesses subscribing to ...
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Japan's Recording Industry wins file-sharing appeal
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) today won the appeal of its case against file-sharing service Japan MMO. Nineteen record companies, the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) and the authors' society JASRAC sued the Japan MMO peer-to-peer service in early ...
| Australian Recording Artists And Record Labels Join Forces For Broadcast Fee Reform
NEW
YORK ( PPCA) - Australian recording artists and record companies have
joined forces to seek the removal of an anachronistic statutory price
cap on the fees paid by the commercial radio industry for the broadcast
of recordings.A law embedded in the Copyright Act since 1969
has protected commercial ...
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IFPI appoints Shira Perlmutter to head Global Legal Policy
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - Shira Perlmutter, one of the media industry's leading intellectual property policy experts, is to join IFPI as Executive Vice-President Global Legal Policy. She reports to Chairman and CEO John Kennedy and will oversee IFPI's legal policy issues globally. Shira Perlmutter has worked ...
| Russian plant agrees substantial settlement with international recording industry
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - Russia's Roff Technologies optical disc plant has agreed a substantial settlement with international recording industry body IFPI and eight member company plaintiffs over the manufacture of counterfeit CDs containing repertoire by major international artists. Settling the case out ...
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Britons are the world's greatest music fans
LONDON, UK (BPI) - UK music fans are top CD buyers - Record CD purchasing fuels 3.0% market growth in 2004 - IFPI figures confirm British music business as world beater - Improving global market is good news for UK music - Digital sales add to good news New figures released today by the BPI (British ...
| Global music retail sales, including digital, flat in 2004
LONDON, UK (IFPI) More stability in physical formats Sharp increase in digital sales Best year-on-year industry performance for five years Global sales of recorded music were flat in 2004, with a slight reduction in physical audio sales offset by growing sales of DVD music videos and ...
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V2 Joins Top Indie Labels at Altnet
SHERMAN OAKS, CA. (Altnet/ www.altnet.com) - Leading online digital entertainment distributor Altnet, a unit of Brilliant Digital Entertainment, has secured top label V2 to its roster of world-class indie customers, including Koch Media, Artemis, Epitaph / Anti, Side One Dummy, Palm, Simmons/Latham ...
| Australian music industry cracks down on Bittorrent infringers
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - The Australian Record Industry's anti-piracy unit today launched raids on the Perth offices of a major Internet Services Provider in the first Australian crackdown on the use BitTorrent technology for alleged music copyright infringement. In court sanctioned civil raids, music industry ...
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