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Pressplay and EMI today announced that the EMI has agreed to license music from its extensive catalog to the online music company comprised of Sony and Universal. Pressplay currently expects to launch its consumer music subscription service later this fall. EMI is one of the backers of MusicNet, which also expects to launch a subscription service this fall. MusicNet is the digital music distribution company formed by RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and EMI Group. Pressplay will offer access to a vast catalog of digital music through an array of affiliates, including Yahoo!, MSN, and MP3.com. The Pressplay service will… Read more »

MusicNet announced today the launch of its technology platform, which is being delivered to distribution partners, AOL and RealNetworks, for incorporation into their systems for future consumer offerings. MusicNet is providing the entire technology platform and music content from label partners BMG, EMI, Warner Music Group and Zomba to its distribution partners. MusicNet’s technology platform, developed over the past year by the MusicNet team with support from RealNetworks, will offer both streaming and downloading of content and includes secure, end-to-end digital rights management functionality enabled by RealSystem Media Commerce Suite. The infrastructure also includes proprietary security features, peer-to-peer file sharing,… Read more »

American songwriters and music publishers have reached preliminary agreement with the on-line file sharing service Napster to settle the class-action lawsuit currently pending in federal court in California. The agreement includes terms under which the songwriters and music publishers will license their music to Napster’s new membership-based service. The announcement of the proposed settlement was made jointly by Edward P. Murphy, president and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association, Inc., Gary L. Churgin, president and CEO of The Harry Fox Agency, Inc., George David Weiss, president of The Songwriters’ Guild of America, Inc., and Napster president and CEO Konrad… Read more »

Maverick Recording Company and Activision, Inc. have partnered with world championship skateboarder Tony Hawk to release Music From and Inspired by Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3. Scheduled to hit stores October 16th, the soundtrack, to be released by Maverick, is the music accompaniment to Activision’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater(TM) 3 video game, to be released for the PlayStation ® 2 computer entertainment system and PlayStation ® Game Console on October 30th. In addition to the audio CD, Music From and Inspired by Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 will also include a first of its kind, enhanced CD, Tony Hawk Inside… Read more »

Clear Channel has identified 150 songs that are considered to be “lyrically inappropriate” for airplay in the wake of the terror attacks carried out in the U.S. on Tuesday, September 11. A Clear Channel spokesperson has confirmed that the list has been circulated among its stations across the country. The lyrical content targeted by the list includes any references to death, flying, September, or general destruction. The popular (and highly political) band Rage Against The Machine received the dubious honor of having their entire catalogue on the list. Pam Taylor, a spokesperson for Clear Channel stations in the San Francisco… Read more »

While the U.S. financial markets suffered a broad sell-off Monday in the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks, a number of sectors of the economy saw incremental gains at the closing bell. Gainers included security and defense companies specializing in issues ranging from airline safety to military buildup. The big losers were insurers and travel stocks. The markets had been closed for four days, the longest shutdown since the Great Depression. NYSE volume came to a record 2.33 billion shares, surpassing the previous volume record of 2.13 billion on January 4, 2001. The Dow Jones Industrial average set a record… Read more »

XM Satellite Radio today received from the Federal Communications Commission nationwide terrestrial network authority necessary to commence commercial operations and has rescheduled launch of the first U.S. digital satellite radio service for Tuesday, Sept. 25. XM had originally scheduled its launch for Sept. 12, but postponed it following the tragic events of last Tuesday in Washington, where the company is based, and in New York. Those events also led to federal shutdown and interruption in the FCC’s repeater network authorization process. “We are grateful that the FCC has moved so expeditiously in the face of the tragic events that have… Read more »

The Pentagon was struck by aircraft, a car bomb exploded outside the State Department and agents patrolled outside the White House with automatic weapons Tuesday as an apparent coordinated terrorist attack spread fear and chaos in the nation’s capital. The enduring symbols of American power were evacuated, the Capitol, White House and more shut down, and the nation’s air traffic system ordered shut down. Billows of smoke drifted from the Pentagon over the Potomac River toward the capital. “Terrorism against our nation will not stand,” vowed President Bush. He spoke moments after two planes had flown directly into the twin… Read more »

Garth Brooks recordings will be the testing ground for a new procedure that may result in the demise of radio, promotional and review copies of CDs. Authenticated users, as determined by EMI Recorded Music, will be sent digital files of the Capitol Records Nashville artist’s forthcoming single “Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)” over the Internet. Security and other technologies are from BayView Systems. “Nobody is going to be sending CDs to radio stations anymore,” EMI Recorded Music senior vp new media Jay Samit said. “I see a future where hard copies of the product are replaced… Read more »

Consumers have not accepted purchasing and downloading music via the Web and are not likely to change with the new services being developed by the recording industry, according to a survey by research firm GartnerG2 on Wednesday. The survey of 4000 adults on the Internet found that nearly 50 percent of those polled listened to CDs on their PCs; whereas only 25 percent listen to music downloads from the Internet on their PCs. In the same GarterG2 survey, it was reported that only 6 percent of the same demographic purchased digital music downloads in the last 3 months. “The percentage… Read more »