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Warner Music Pulls All Content from Youtube
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Unable to renegotiate the share of ad revenue it sought, Warner Music Group has pulled all of its content from YouTube. Affected are thousands of songs and artists from WMG's extensive recording catalog, as well as, those published by Warner/Chappell Music who may not record for the company.
“We are working actively to find a resolution with YouTube that would enable the return of our artists' content to the site," Warner said in a statement. “Until then, we simply cannot ...
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Labels Force Content off Youtube and Myspace
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Over what should have been a slow pre-holiday weekend two stories broke that again put the major labels at odds with several major Music 2.0 companies. Here are links to our updated coverage:
Unable to get the revenue share is sought, Warner Music Group pulled all of its label and publishing content off YouTube. We have up to date details and a commentary. Earlier in the ...
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Undersea Cables Cut; 14 Countries Lose Web
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All About Jazz
Reports from the Mediterranean indicate that two of the undersea cables severed and repaired earlier this year have been cut again, disrupting internet access and phone service between the Middle East, Europe, and parts of Asia. An additional third cable is down in the same region.
The cuts are causing traffic to be re-routed through the United States and elsewhere. Egypt's communications ministry tells the Associated Press that the outage has almost completely killed internet services throughout Egypt. A second ...
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No Isp Filtering Under New Riaa Copyright Strategy
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All About Jazz
The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday announced a new strategy in its quest to curtail online copyright infringement — a plan that for now requires no filtering from internet service providers.
“There's no filtering," said RIAA spokeswoman Cara Duckworth. “We are simply passing along a notice of detection and the ISPs will forward a notice to the subscriber." Many feared the next stage in the record labels' war on file sharing would include demands that internet service providers ...
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Warner Music Videos Removed from Youtube
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Michael Ricci
Negotiations over licensing fees stall. Warner Music Group's videos began disappearing from YouTube this weekend, the casualty of a contract impasse between the music company and the Internet's dominant video site.
Negotiations broke down last week over licensing fees for Warner's music and videos, say people familiar with the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly. On its blog, YouTube alerted its audience to the collapse in talks, noting that professionally produced music videos and those that ...
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MySpace Pulls Project Playlist After Label Threats
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MySpace pulled all Project Playlist widgets from its site yesterday. The move apparently came after MySpace received notices from several “major music companies" demanding that the popular playlist sharing widget be removed.
“MySpace has received notices of infringement about Project Playlist at different times from several of the major music companies currently suing Project Playlist," MySpace said in statement. That's PR-speak for some or all of the major labels, as well as, a big publisher ...
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Music Sales Drop 2% Q3 Despite Digital Growth
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Overall demand for music among U.S. internet users fell 2% in Q3 of 2008 according to a new NPD survey which included purchased CDs and downloads, P2P sites, and borrowing music to rip. It's not clear if the numbers are just a blip or within some margin or error, but they certainly can't be spun as good news for a beleagured music industry. Growth in track sales and the number of new downloaders did, however, offer a ray of hope ...
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