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BlueBeat claims it owns copyright in Beatles tracks

Hank Risen, the owner of BlueBeat.com, which was found last week to be selling MP3s of the Beatles' catalogue for as little as 15p per track, has defiantly stated that he owns the copyrights in the songs that he's selling.

EMI filed a lawsuit against the company,...

Logitech's Squeezebox Radio gets Queen album early

In what's being described as an industry first, Queen are joining up with Logitech to offer their new album "Absolute Greatest" exclusively first the Wi-Fi-enabled Logitech Squeezebox Radio and music player.

From now, owners of the Logitech Squeezebox Radio...

BT plans music subscription service

BT is reportedly in early discussions with execs at all four major labels to try and build a legal music subscription service to rival the vague plans that Sky says it has about a similar initiative.

Sky says that it's reached agreements with EMI and Sony Music,...

Orange music goes DRM-free

Orange has followed Vodafone in announcing it will offer digital rights management-free music downloads in what it says is a "major refresh" of its music portal.

Orange will sell DRM-free music downloads from Universal Music, EMI Music and a number of independent...

EMI refuses to stream at new PRS rates

EMI Publishing has said that it's not going to be making its catalogue available at the new audio streaming rates for websites, recently published by PRS for Music.

The collection society, which organises royalty payments for music publishers, cut its minimum...

New Danger Mouse album comes as blank CD-R

Music producer Danger Mouse shot to fame in 2004 with "The Grey Album" - a mashup of the Beatles' "The White Album" and Jay-Z's "The Black Album".

EMI, who owns the copyright for the Beatles' tracks, weren't too pleased as he hadn't asked permission. They ordered...

Re-mastered Beatles CDs to launch with Rock Band game

The original Beatles catalogue, digitally re-mastered for the first time, is to get a worldwide CD release on 09/09/09 - the same date as the The Beatles: Rock Band goes on sale.

However, there's still no news on the catalogue being made available for download....

Vodafone goes DRM-free

Vodafone has announced that it has signed deals with Universal Music, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI to offer their tracks and albums DRM-free across Vodafone markets for both mobile phones and PCs.

Said to be the first deals of their kind for a mobile network...

iTunes "Pass" available for Depeche Mode fans

Apple and EMI have announced the launch of "iTunes Pass", marking a new phase in digital music marketing.

"iTunes Pass is a great way for artists to give exclusive music and video, on their own schedule, directly to their fans", said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice...

iTunes finally goes DRM-free

At the Apple keynote at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco Philip W. Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing for Apple, followed absent Apple boss Steve Jobs' tradition of announcing "one last thing".

Music fans will be pleased to note...

EMI signs artists up for iPhone game app

EMI Music has signed up a number of its artists to feature in a new version of a popular iPhone game.

The developers behind Tap Tap Revenge, the most popular free download from the App Store in 2008, have come up with a new paid-for sequel in Tap Tap Dance.

The Beatles to feature in Rock Band-type game

The Beatles are to feature in a music video game next year thanks to an exclusive partnership just announced between Apple Corps (the Beatles' record label, not the computer co), Harmonix and MTV Games.

This marks the first time that Apple Corps (along with...

Datz Music Lounge launches

The "Datz Music Lounge" has launched, described as "a revolutionary new way to buy and enjoy music".

The Datz Music Lounge lets you download as many tracks as you want over the course of a year for a one off cost of £99.99.

Similar to Nokia's...

MySpace Music courts independents

When MySpace Music was made official in April, three of the big four music labels - Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group - had already signed up.

The fourth - EMI - joined the initiative months later, but the only indie distributor was The...

VIDEO: A sneak peek at SanDisk's slotMusic player

SanDisk's CD rivalling music platform, slotMusic, isn't going to be available in the UK until early next year.

Details have already been revealed though for what albums US punters will soon be able to buy on microSD cards to slot into their slotMusic player.

Play.com signs up big four for DRM-free downloads

Online retailer Play.com has announced that tracks and albums from all four major music labels are now available in MP3 DRM-Free format on their digital music service PlayDigital.

With the claim of beating their major UK competitors Amazon, HMV and Tesco to...

YouTube adds click to buy buttons

Google has announced some new YouTube services in the States, aimed at finally monetising the site.

Viewers will now see buttons under YouTube videos to offer a chance to buy music, movies, TV shows, concert tickets and other products featured or mentioned...

Nokia Comes With Music launches in the UK

Nokia has announced the debut of its "Comes with Music" service which gives owners of certain handsets unlimited access to a library of millions of tracks, with the ability to keep the music they've download after a year.

"Comes With Music sets a precedent...

MySpace Music launches with DRM-free downloads from Amazon

MySpace, along with the big four record labels, EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group as well as Sony ATV/Music Publishing have unveiled the new, revamped "MySpace Music".

Promising a host of new features for both users and artists, MySpace...

SanDisk and big four record labels launch slotMusic

A new physical music format has been launched by SanDisk and the big four record labels, EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group.

Dubbed "slotMusic" the format is based on the microSD cards that are due to launch soon available with...

7digital sees 300% sales increase from DRM-free

7digital.com has said that it has seen "rocketing" digital music sales following the introduction of the DRM-free MP3 download format across the Warner Music and EMI catalogues.

In March, 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to offer the Warner Music...

Microsoft launches Messenger TV

Microsoft has launched a new feature for Windows Live Messenger - Messenger TV.

Claiming to bring together two of the nation's most popular online activities - watching videos and chatting on instant messenger, Messenger TV is way for Windows Live Messenger...

Amazon offers "disc on demand" service

Amazon.com, Sony BMG and EMI Music have announced that they will bring back the music of hundreds of "highly coveted" out-of-print albums on CD through CreateSpace's "Disc on Demand" service that will be offered via Amazon.com.

Formerly out-of-print albums...

Comes with Music service to cripple Nokia?

Reports are suggesting that Nokia has bitten off more than it can chew with its coming later this year "Comes with Music" service.

While the service has won the support of the big music labels including Universal Music and Sony BMG (and possibly EMI some time...

"PluggedIn" major music video site launches in States

A new video music website has been launched into beta by the music industry in the States, called PluggedIn.

The site offers over 10,000 high resolution music videos by major names, as well as music news, blogs, photos, artist profiles and social networking...