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The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), the licensing subsidiary of The National Music Publishers’ Association, Inc. (NMPA) and Listen.com, Inc. announced today that they have reached an agreement on the licensing of musical works for Rhapsody(TM), Listen.com ®’s digital music subscription service. This agreement is modeled on the terms of the agreement that the NMPA and HFA recently reached with the Recording Industry Association of America for licensing on-demand streaming and limited downloads offered by Internet music subscription services. Under the agreement, Listen.com will have access to every musical work authorized by participating publishers to be licensed by HFA, the… Read more »

The Yankee Group today released a new study that examines the viability of webcasting, even as online-only broadcasters such as Live365, RadioWave, ClickRadio, and NetRadio suffer losses, announce layoffs, and face the specter of shuttering operations altogether. Ryan Jones, the analyst who authored the report, said in the executive summary, “The challenges facing Internet-only webcasters are significant enough to keep broadcasters in the lead for the foreseeable future. But a growing listener base, falling streaming costs and an increasingly cooperative advertising community are all aligning to mark webcasting as a soon-to-be profitable complement to broadcast radio.” The report indicates that… Read more »

MusicNet today announced the appointment of Alan McGlade as President and CEO. As head of the company, Mr. McGlade will oversee the development and deployment of the MusicNet service, which MusicNet recently announced was being delivered to distribution partners AOL and RealNetworks, as well as programming, distribution and content relations, operations, and all technology initiatives. MusicNet will be headquartered in New York, and the technology development and operations teams will remain in Seattle. Mr. McGlade will also serve on the MusicNet board of directors. “It is a true pleasure to announce that Alan McGlade will be heading up the MusicNet… Read more »

iM Networks, Inc., the leading provider of Internet solutions for consumer electronics companies, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Virgin Radio, the UK’s most listened to commercial radio station. Now music fans can listen to its digital content as easily as they would any regular FM station. Through this relationship, Virgin Radio will be distributed over iM Networks’ iM Tuning(TM) Service, placing Virgin Radio on the “Best of Planet(TM)” programming through a growing number of iM Radio ® Tuners, including the Philips FW-i1000, Acer iRhythm, iRhythm K.O. and iM Radio Tuner Software, as well as upcoming products… Read more »

Loudeye has announced plans to acquire Activate, a company that provides webcasting services. Loudeye has made several such acquisitions this year, in July snapping up assets of theDial, a Seattle based Internet radio programming that syndicates original programming; and buying Addition Systems, a streamed advertising firm in June. Commenting on the acquisition, Loudeye chief executive officer John Baker said, “Enterprise streaming is a logical extension of Loudeye’s digital media expertise into a lucrative market on the threshold of accelerated growth. This acquisition will significantly strengthen and diversify Loudeye’s revenue mix and increase future earnings potential by accessing existing corporate budgets… Read more »

Sting, the Grammy award-winning Universal Music artist and performer, has partnered with Vizzavi for its first music European-wide webcast. Vizzavi is the rapidly growing internet portal formed by Vodafone Group plc, the world’s largest mobile network operator, and Vivendi Universal, one of the world’s leading media companies. The concert is the actual recording of Sting’s much anticipated new album due for release later this year. This is no ordinary event – the recording will be Sting’s first “live” album since 1986’s Bring on the Night and will be comprised of both his solo work, as well as the hits from… Read more »

Jupiter Media Metrix reports that U.S. consumer online music spending will grow from $1.0 billion in 2001 to $6.2 billion in 2006, a 43 percent annual growth rate over the next five years. According to the July 2001 Jupiter Internet Music Model, online music sales will represent seven percent of total U.S. music sales in 2001 and 32 percent in 2006. Digital music sales – via single paid downloads and digital subscription models – will comprise three percent of total online music sales in 2001 and 30 percent in 2006, with spending growing from $29 million to $1.9 billion over… Read more »

Music publishers and songwriters said Tuesday they had joined the growing list of media companies suing file-sharing company Aimster for copyright infringement, saying that the service is trying to fill the void left by Napster. The lawsuit was filed last week in a Manhattan Federal Court by a group including legendary songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who penned “Jailhouse Rock” and music publishers Criterion Music, Famous Music, and The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization. “We are extremely disappointed that before the ink was even dry on Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ opinion concluding that Napster was engaging in massive copyright… Read more »

As the fight over digital musical copyrights moves into a new stage, song-swap service Napster said it is looking for a new ally – music publishers. “I’m spending a lot of time thinking about publishing,” Napster chief executive officer Hank Barry told Reuters. “We could get all the labels in the world on the service but we still couldn’t do anything without the publishing rights,” said Barry during a recent interview. Barry echoed what many big label executives are grappling with as a growing dispute over publishers’ royalty rates threatens to undermine recently announced plans to launch commercial services as… Read more »

Record companies face off against music publishers and songwriters like Lyle Lovett in Washington this week in a growing dispute over royalty payments that threatens industry plans to sell music online. The major recording labels and music publishers, who own music rights, are at odds over on-demand or interactive music streamed over the Internet, which allows consumers to listen to whatever song they want when they want. While the world’s big music labels argued successfully that free song-swap service Napster infringed their copyrights, songwriters and music publishers now claim that at least one major label, Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music Group,… Read more »