Record Labels

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has noted that there will be an uphill battle in Japan for the streaming service, a nation where CDs remain king.

The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has sued Warner Bros, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Atlantic Records and Hollywood Records over alleged non-payments of streaming royalties.

Although most people probably thought it was shuttered years ago anyways, the music sharing service Grooveshark has officially shut down.

According to reports, Universal Music Group - the world's largest label, is pressuring Spotify to limit its free streaming service that is used by over 50 million people.

Thanks to a new report from Ernst & Young in conjunction with French record label trade group SNEP, we can see that artists and songwriters continue to get screwed by the major record labels.

A major deal is in the works between music service SoundCloud and the record labels.

Record labels cut back dues again

Would be next Internet giant to get in the game

Apple has intensified their recent discussions with the major music labels in an effort to get their own streaming radio service launched.
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Earlier this year, following a year-long investigation, the U.S. DEA arrested and indicted 46-year-old rap music manager James Rosemond on 18 ......

LimeWire has decided to settle with the record labels in their federal copyright infringement suit, paying $105 million and finally marking ......

As reported this week, Google has launched the beta of their Google Music cloud service.
To nobody's surprise, the record labels are not ......

Earlier this week, Amazon launched its CloudDrive, a digital locker for users which offers 5GB free cloud storage on their servers.
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