Showing posts with label sony music group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sony music group. Show all posts
12.12.09
Compilações: músicos pedem quatro mil milhões de euros às editoras
10.6.09
eMusic Strikes Deal With Sony Music, Raises Monthly Price to $12
Music download service eMusic announced on Monday that it had struck a licensing deal with Sony Music. Sony will be including some of its older catalog releases in eMusic’s library of more than 5.5 million tracks later this year.
eMusic is a subscription service that gives users a allotted number of tracks for a monthly fee. As part of the recent Sony deal, the company has raised its price from $10 a month to $12, and lowered the allotment of tracks from 30 per month to 24. Some quick math shows that the price per track jumped from 30 cents to 50 cents. Continue reading...
24.5.09
Sony To Offer Music Downloads On PlayStation Network
Sony is jumping into the online music distribution market, as sources told CNET that Sony is attempting to deal with other major recording companies to provide music downloads through the PlayStation Network.
This comes after Sir Howard Stringer, Sony Chairman, President and CEO, said that the company can compete with iTunes by providing “something that Apple can’t” and will “grab that opportunity before Apple begins to provide support for other hardware and blocks [Sony] out.” Digital music served on the Playstation Network seems to be the answer. Read more...
14.5.09
Sony Music Challenges Apple iTunes
Sony Music Group has a long history of non-transparency with customers, even scandals involving the inclusion of dubious copy protection software on CDs, but is seems like the media company is trying to change. In an interview, Sir Howard Stringer, Sony Chairman, President and CEO, said that “Sony has begun the transition from a closed system to an open one.” Continue reading...
11.5.09
Sony Streams Free Music Videos On PS3 This Summer
Sony announced at SCE Australia that the free music video service for the Playstation 3, called Vidzone, will be launched in June. The service will allow access to a wide range of music videos, as well as live concerts, behind the scenes footage and interviews, all streamed directly to the PS3 free of charge.
Sony boasts that Vidzone will have more than 10,000 tracks at launch, and will update content on a weekly basis. For starters, they have the entire Sony BMG catalog, but executives also say that “thousands of independent labels” will also support the service. Read more...
11.12.08
U.S. Government Sues Sony Music
The U.S. Government sued Sony Music Entertainment on Wednesday, claiming that Sony accepted registrations on its Websites from under-13 users, without parental consent. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The music company’s public relations representative has not commented, but the civil suit said Sony Music was in violation of the children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, which is enforced by the Federal Trade Comission. Furthermore, the lawsuit said documentation on Sony Music’s Website did not disclose how it collected and used registration information.
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