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The Motley Fool
July 13, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hold the Music European doubts over one music industry merger may derail another. Arguing that the pairing of desperate labels will stifle competition is just naive. The playing field has moved on.   |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2004
Dave Marino-Nachison |
Warner Music Prepares for Cuts A published report confirms suspicions that many music jobs are at risk. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
DRM May Die? Yahoo! Will online music's digital rights management go the way of the dodo? |
The Motley Fool
August 7, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner's Not Like a Broken Record Warner Music Group's quarterly results topped expectations. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
A Big Mistake at Sony BMG A small French company has alleged that Sony BMG pirated its software. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Apple Sticks With Dollar Downloads Standard pricing for iTunes downloads won't be changing soon. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2005
Tim Gray |
Report: AOL Close to Video Deal The company looks to cash in on music video sales with Sony BMG partnership, according to a published report. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner Still Loves EMI The Warner Music Group and EMI merger chatter is alive again. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
MySpace Faces the Music Warner Music Group and Sony BMG are close to signing a deal that will create new revenue channels in ad-supported music and music videos, pay-per-downloads, and mobile phone delivery. EMI and Universal are likely to follow suit with MySpace. |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
The Death of Dollar Downloads? If dollar music downloads go away, some good, old-fashioned rock 'n roll rebellion could be cooking. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Delicious Downloads Fast food companies are offering free music downloads with a purchase. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
CBS Records Is Back, Jack The media giant gets back in touch with its musical roots. The label's focus will be digital distribution through its own CBSRecords.com site, as well as through Apple's iTunes. |
The Motley Fool
July 5, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Universal Music's Bright Idea Can the music industry save the CD format? There's clearly no excuse for the industry to suppose that the old way is the right way any longer. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Radiohead's Sonic Boom Radiohead will allow its fans to pay whatever they like for its newest album, available on the Web, giving fans the opportunity to cut out the middleman and deal directly with their favorite bands. Is this the future of music? |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
Two Sides to CD Story DualDiscs may hit the market in October, but a similar technology has been patented for years in Europe, with a patent also pending in the U.S. Should a lawsuit ensue, this could derail the industry's plans before they ever begin to bear fruit. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
EMI's Cold Play EMI turns to private equity as an exit strategy. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 17, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Digital Music's Double Trouble The major labels' resistance to innovation, penny-pinching ways, and frequent complaints about piracy and the flagging popularity of CDs leave them ripe for disruption. Digital distribution should be only too happy to oblige. |
Home Theater
July 9, 2007 |
Universal Balks at iTunes Renewal Vivendi's Universal Music Group declined to renew its annual agreement with iTunes, selling content only "at will." |
Home Theater
March 6, 2008 |
Musicians Demand Copyright Cash Little of the millions of dollars in settlements major record labels have collected in copyright-infringement suits has been shared with recording artists. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie? |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2004
Mark Mahorney |
Music Download Firms Don't Get It A less-than-pleasant music downloading experience indicates companies have a long way to go. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2005
Shannon Zimmerman |
Compact Discs: The New 8-Track Major labels meet the future -- reluctantly. Online music stores represent the future of the music biz as evidenced by newly public Warner Music Group's report of $4 million in net income thanks, in part, to $31 million in digital music revenue that offset a similar-sized decline in CD sales. |
InternetNews
March 3, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
NewProbe of Online Music Underway The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that the department's antitrust unit is looking into the four largest record labels and possible "uncompetitive practices" of music download pricing. |
PC World
September 2005
Laurianne McLaughlin |
Copyright Crackdown New XCP2 technology on music CDs limits the number of copies you can make -- and gets in the way of putting tunes on an IPod. |
The Motley Fool
January 2, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
We're All Thieves to the RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America is going after consumers who have copied their own legally purchased CDs onto their own MP3s. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner's Digital Groove Digital gains help soften the weakness at Warner Music Group. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
RIAA: The Beatings Go On The music industry's fight against piracy continues, with a high-profile trial currently in progress. The courtroom action reveals that such lawsuits could be a major cash burn for the labels prosecuting them. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
SNOCAP's Indie Spirit Giving indie labels a better form of distribution is as significant as allowing artists to sell directly to fans, another possible effect if MySpace's music commerce initiative really takes off. |
Home Theater
September 23, 2008 |
Universal Laughs at the Hangman Universal Music Group has become the first of the big four record labels to significantly increase revenue in many years. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner's Broken Record Warner Music Group has to scale back today's IPO, and the writing was on the studio wall. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
What Were You Thinking, Sony? Increasingly, music companies like Sony BMG are treating their customers like criminals who borrow, rather than purchase, their products. Sony's recent move goes way beyond that idea -- providing an intrusive technology that, in effect, hijacked its customers' computers. |
Home Theater
September 13, 2007 |
Let's Get Ready to Ringle The music industry wants to sell you a CD single with three songs and a ringtone. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Cacophony at Warner and EMI Two labels want to start a band but can't agree on who the lead singer should be. Quit the bickering and get the deal done at a fair price, even if it means upsetting cash-hungry fat cats and rolling with the more logical stock combination. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Recording Industry Gets It? Not Industries that don't present themselves as particularly friendly to customers and suppliers are tasty candidates for disruption, and that's been abundantly clear regarding the recording industry for years now. |
InternetNews
March 5, 2008 |
Facebook in Talks With Major Music Labels: Report Social networking site Facebook has approached major music labels about launching a music service. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away Warner Music Group is part of an archaic industry that has been suffering in recent years. Is it time to get rid of this stock? |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Music for the Masses Sony, the fourth and final major music label to offer downloadable tunes in the unshackled MP3 format, will be available in the virtual aisles of Amazon.com later this month. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2005
Roy Mark |
NY State May Probe Digital Download Pricing In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week, Warner Music Group disclosed that it had received subpoenas regarding the pricing of digital music downloads. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2008 |
Apple Seen Set to Resolve EU iTunes Case Charges that Apple broke European rules by pricing songs country-by-country may soon be ended. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Baidu, EMI Make Beautiful Music The two companies team to fight piracy and offer music online. A streaming music service should be far more palatable to Britain's EMI as it tries to reach out to Chinese consumers accustomed to free content. |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bring On the Cacophony The band pushers are possibly starting their own band. Oh no! |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
CD Is the New Vinyl As compact disc sales continue falling, the industry must take a stand. In the worst-case scenario for the labels, the distribution power will shift toward recording artists. In the best-case scenario, the exact same thing happens -- just a bit more slowly. Investors, take note. |
Inc.
March 1, 2010
Adam Bluestein |
Coping With Fury at a Price Hike When eMusic raised prices, customers grumbled and threatened to leave. Was it too late to go back? |
InternetNews
February 7, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
An Apple Flip-Flop on FairPlay? Apple CEO Steve Jobs is calling for music labels to stop selling music encrypted with digital rights management software. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2008
Anders Bylund |
The Tale of an Extinct Business Model A business model that never existed before this decade kills off the music industry at large. |
Wired
February 2003
Charles C. Mann |
The Year The Music Dies Record labels are under attack from all sides -- file sharers and performers, even equipment manufacturers and good old-fashioned customers -- and it's killing them. A moment of silence, please. |
The Motley Fool
September 8, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
More Music "To Go" Burger King and AOL team up to bring music downloads to the menu. |
Home Theater
June 9, 2008 |
Major Label Expands to Survive The Universal Music Group will now manage classical artists and book concerts, moving into territory previously off-limits to most record labels. |
The Motley Fool
January 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bobbing for Apple Is there room for Apple to charge more for tracks? Probably, but does Universal want to be the one to open up that Pandora's Box? |
The Motley Fool
February 5, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Big Music's Song Remains the Shame Warner Music Group reports another soft quarter. |
