Category Music

YouTube’s War with European Collecting Societies

YouTube stands off against UK and German music collecting societies over royalty terms.

Google Expands Free MP3 Downloads in China

Google offers free MP3 downloads from all four majors in the Chinese market. When will the model spread, and through whom?

Mobile World Congress Roundup

By Azita Arvani Last week, we attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the largest global wireless show.  Here are the DRM and copyright related highlights of the show. There was almost no mention of DRM, some mention of content protection, but lots of mobile music and video services around. Nokia is extending the Comes […]

Adobe Extends E-Book Platform to Several Mobile Devices

Adobe makes the e-book platform sweepstakes into a two-horse race with Amazon.

QTrax to Launch with All Major Labels

Watch ads once a month and get free, legal access to music.

A Quiet MIDEM

The MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France seems to have passed about as quietly — with respect to our interests, at least — as CES in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago.   Nokia’s Tero Ojanperä announced that Comes With Music will expand into more countries throughout the world this year, though he offered neither […]

Apple Removes DRM for iTunes Music

The end of DRM for permanent music downloads.