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...Others, like the lawsuit that Wigdor filed this month against music mogul Sean Combs, are only glimpsed in public....
...It provides artist services such as global marketing and radio promotion as well as a DIY platform through which they can upload their own music for distribution....
...And with lots of collaboration and discussion, we are exercising our rights to that security.”...
...In 2017 the game’s creators handed curation over to artists, asking Frank Ocean to create a radio station for GTA V....
...Netflix in September agreed to pay $500m over five years for the global rights to Seinfeld, the 1990s sitcom. In 2015 Hulu bought the US rights for about $20m a year....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...It will demand new legal rights, writes John Thornhill, such as the right to refuse your brain being activity monitored or its data shared, brainwashing should be banned and your personal identity should...
...Shares of Snap, the owner of Snapchat, rose as much as 44 per cent right after its March IPO at $17, but now trade at around $15....
...Sony and Universal would license their content to YouTube, and they would split advertising sales....
...Spotify declined to comment on the fundraising, but it published figures on Wednesday about its role in the global music industry....
...“We believe it’s the first subscription service to get it right,” Mr Cook said of Beats, elements of which are now being incorporated into the forthcoming iTunes reboot....
...Pandora, the streaming radio service, has 80m free users and 3.5m pay, he says, while YouTube has 1bn users any month and barely any pay....
...Record companies made $1.1bn from subscription services last year, up 50 per cent from the previous year, according to the IFPI, which represents the global recorded music industry....
...This week’s news that it has struck a deal to license music with the rights agency Merlin is a first step down this road....
...“The fact that download numbers declined at all freaked out the music industry, right on the heels of the launch of iTunes Radio,” one digital music executive said....
...Neither iTunes Radio, Apple’s internet radio service launched in 2013, nor Beats Music, released earlier this year, has yet succeeded in unseating their competitors Pandora and Spotify as the leaders of...
...Apple is planning its own subscription music service, although reports suggest its offering will be more like an online radio system....
...Last week it was revealed that global recorded music revenues grew for the first time since 1999. The news was greeted with talk of the worst being over....
...“I make a song, it gets played on the radio, people go and buy it. Then I play the Staples Center [in Los Angeles].”...
...Anil Srivatsa is the 45-year-old creator and host of Between the Sheets, a call-in talk show on sex that ran on a national radio network until 2009 and is now broadcast on internet radio....
...“We are now gearing up for commercial launch in the UK and US, and will be revealing news about global music licensing agreements and commercial partnerships in the coming weeks.”...
...Edgar Bronfman Jr, chairman and chief executive, said digital revenue reached 48 per cent of US recorded music sales, and noted 60 per cent of its active global artists had now signed expanded rights deals...
...But, set alongside global digital music revenues of less than $5bn, the figure helps explains its backers’ interest....
...Yet US regulators, focusing on the WiFi “commons,” let most of a decade slip away before auctioning 3G licenses in 2006....
...I only need mention the social networking sites such as MySpace or specific music sites which are growing so fast right now....
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