Roxio now belongs to Corel
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The deal moves Roxio’s products into Corel’s portfolio. Roxio is best known for software to create, edit, produce and play video and audio, including the Mac-user favorite Roxio Toast along with Roxio Creator, Roxio Game Capture, Roxio CinePlayer DVD Decoder and other titles. Corel also announced th.. .. read more..
VEVO accused of short changing indie publishers
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Sony/Universal owned video site VEVO has been accused of unfair play in the US by Matt Pincus, the boss of indie publisher Songs Music Publishing. Pincus claims VEVO is failing to pay royalties to independent music publishers, despite recently boasting $150 million in revenues last year, and of .. .. read more..
Universal City deletes Buddy Holly, Muddy Waters and Patsy Cline
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Fifteen or so years since Universal Music Group left for Santa Monica, the honchos at Universal City are taking down the signs on various streets and driveways that honor music legends. Going up in their place are signs naming movie figures of the past. Buddy Holly Drive has become W.C. Fields Drive.. .. read more..
Czech Republic stops ratification of anti-counterfeit treaty
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Czech Republic has stopped ratification of the controversial anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (Acta), becoming the second EU country to do so after Poland. \'We cannot accept under any circumstances, that civil liberties and free access to information are threatened in any way,\' Prime Minister.. .. read more..
Web radio aggregator breaks into audience measurement turf with TuneIn Amplifier
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Streaming radio aggregator TuneIn today launched a new analytics platform intended to provide broadcasters with free detailed info about their online listening. Called TuneIn Amplifier, the service reveals how many unique listeners tuned in, how many total listens (or \'tunes,\' bascially the equivale.. .. read more..
Indie Artist Outsources Music Video To Bangalore, India With Surprising Results
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Browsing the music thread on Reddit, I stumbled upon Drew Smith, an independent artist from Hamilton, Ontario. What caught my eye was the following headline, which had me incredibly intrigued: \'My brother outsourced his new music video to Bangalore, India. This is what he got back.\' Was I intrigued?.. .. read more..
Pirate Bay Founders Launch \'Legal\' File-Sharing Site
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Two founders of The Pirate Bay have launched a new file-sharing site called Bayfiles, which they claim will respect copyright rules and comply with legitimate requests to remove content. Unlike The Pirate Bay, Bayfiles is not a BitTorrent tracker. Rather, it is a one-click-hosting service or ‘cyberl.. .. read more..
Democrats to continue Internet coup with new cyber bill
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadl.. .. read more..
Universal partners on yet another musical telly talent show
Monday, February 6, 2012
Universal Music yesterday announced a new partnership with Dutch company the Talpa Media Group in relation to yet another talent TV show format to be called \'The Winner Is\'. Talpa is also the company behind talent franchise \'The Voice’, which is due to come to British screens in March via the BBC, a.. .. read more..
CueSongs\' new market for music
Monday, February 6, 2012
CueSongs provides a simple way for anyone to find well-known, pre-licensed music recordings and immediately purchase the right to deploy them on their websites, on Facebook, YouTube, in apps, online advertising and other micro-usages. CueMusic\'s co-founder Peter Gabriel says. \'The old world of music.. .. read more..
Howard Stringer\'s long, strange trip
Monday, February 6, 2012
Will CEO Howard Stringer\'s departure, whose stumbles came to epitomize the struggles of the once-great Sony Corp., turn things around? It\'s impossible to know. But things certainly have not gone well at Sony over Stringer\'s seven-year tenure. The company that was once on the cutting edge is now wide.. .. read more..
Alan Lomax Collection Available Soon for Streaming
Monday, February 6, 2012
Technology has finally caught up to the late Alan Lomax’s imagination. His vast archive — 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks .. .. read more..
Eagle vs. shark
Friday, February 3, 2012
There\'s a price on Paul Geller\'s head – $17 billion, to be exact. That\'s the amount that UMG Recordings, an arm of multimedia giant Universal, is suing Geller and his employer for in a New York federal court. The 29-year-old Geller has been personally named, along with the other senior executives of.. .. read more..
Vivendi \'Satisfied\' With Court Decision to Dismiss Claims by Foreign Shareholder..
Friday, February 3, 2012
The U.S. Southern District of Manhattan Court is not allowing investors who bought Vivendi stock on the Paris stock exchange from 2000 to 2002 to pursue the company in an ongoing shareholder lawsuit that alleges the company misled investors about its financial health. Under then-CEO Jean-Marie Messi.. .. read more..