Big music companies like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group are already experiencing a sharp decline in sales of compact discs.
Big music companies like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people ) and EMI Group are already experiencing a sharp decline in sales of compact discs.
By early January 2008, a few months after Amazon MP3 launched, the three other major labels--Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG--dropped DRM.
On the other hand, one might also want to consider that in September, Baidu's music accessibility got slammed by a quadumvirate of Warner Music Group, Vivendi Universal 's Universal Music Group, EMI Group and Sony BMG (half-owned by Sony), which all filed suits against the Chinese e-commerce firm (see: " Bronfman Leads Music Bigs In Baidu Piracy Lawsuit").
She's had a modestly successful recording career--her newest album is the fifth she has recorded for Sony BMG, the joint venture between Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and Bertelsmann A.G.
That questionable practice led EMI (other-otc: EMIPY - news - people ), Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal Music to sue Baidu for copyright infringement in 2005, though a Beijing judge ruled last year that Baidu could legally link to copyrighted materials.
Sony ( SNE - news - people ) BMG and auditioned to appear in the final Harry Potter movie.
The resulting hoo-hah also sparked lawsuits from vexed customers and left Sony BMG parleying with lawyers over an appropriate settlement.
Initially the site will offer 1 million, DRM-free songs (ramping up to 5 million) from Sony BMG, Warner Music, and EMI.
ENGADGET: Sony Ericsson's PlayNow Arena: 1 million, DRM-free songs on Monday
She's had a modestly successful recording career--her newest album is the fifth she has recorded for Sony BMG, the joint venture between Sony and Bertelsmann A.G.
You probably already know that Sony BMG has started selling at least some CDs that include built-in copy-protection, making it difficult to play the CDs on a computer using any media player other than the one bundled on the CD, and limiting the number of copies you can make.
And Sony BMG will join EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store.
Since X-Factor gave Jedward the hook the brothers have performed with Vanilla Ice, signed a record deal with Sony BMG and auditioned to appear in the final Harry Potter movie.
Sony BMG, a joint venture of Chief Executive Sir Howard Stringer 's Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) with Bertelsmann, is now offering free music downloads as well as cash refunds to those who bought the music disc, as part of a proposed settlement of lawsuits, according to U.K. media reports.
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