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Warner Music Stock Outperforms Peers (New York Times)
Here’s some good news for Warner Music Group ’s long-suffering private equity backers: According to The New York Post, the music label, whose artists include R.E.M. and Green Day, is the year’s best-performing media stock.
23 Jul 2008, 8:01 am | click here for more
Music industry to tax downloaders (Independent)
Internet users could face an annual charge of up to £30 to download music, below plans to be unveiled today that aim to tackle illegal file-sharing.
23 Jul 2008, 7:26 pm | click here for more
UK deal to fight film and music net piracy (Financial Times)
A groundbreaking deal between broadband companies and the music and film industries to tackle illegal downloading, in which thousands of people will be sent warning letters, will be announced on Thursday.
23 Jul 2008, 6:42 pm | click here for more
Helen Music (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
WILLIAMSTOWN – Helen Hiscock Bennett Music, 91, of Williamstown, formerly of Prestonsburg, Dexter, Mich. and Meriden, Conn., died Tuesday, July 22, at St. Elizabeth Medical middle, Grant County, Williamstown.
23 Jul 2008, 6:11 pm | click here for more
Universal’s Imeem Deal May Unlock More Free Music (New York Times)
Universal Music Group’s announcement on Monday that it would license its catalog to Imeem , a rapidly growing social networking site, may well be a key milestone in the development of digital music.
23 Jul 2008, 5:37 pm | click here for more
MySpace Music to launch in September (CNET)
Chris DeWolfe announces launch date of the service, which is backed by three of the four top music labels, during Fortune Brainstorm conference.
23 Jul 2008, 5:04 pm | click here for more
'Mirroring the music' (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
For the new, $1 million production of Verdi's "La Traviata," which opens tonight at Music Hall, its creators had to find a fresh take on the familiar story of the good-hearted but doomed courtesan.
23 Jul 2008, 3:42 pm | click here for more
Music Video Games, LLC Announces Strategic Relationship with Rhino Entertainment (GameSpy)
The agreement allows MvG to license original music for upcoming games.
23 Jul 2008, 3:20 pm | click here for more
Steinberg Ships Consumer Music Recording App, Sequel 2 (PC World)
Steinberg began shipping the new version of its consumer-based music recording application Sequel 2. Sequel is targeted to...
23 Jul 2008, 11:52 am | click here for more
MIKE WENDLAND: iPhone music apps abound (Detroit Free Press)
Thanks to a bunch of new programs downloaded from the App Store, my iPhone 3G now has become a music lover's dream machine, letting me hear to live radio, identify songs I hear or even hum and, on the fly, build a playlist of my favorite artists or genres.
23 Jul 2008, 10:13 am | click here for more