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For those without a fireplace and/or an ability to carry a tune, TV stations have for decades offered the Yule Log, an on-screen fireplace crackling as Christmas Carols play in the background.
According to "The Holiday Yule Log" book, the first televised fireplace was in 1966 on New York's WPIX-TV. With carols on in the background and no commercials, it was an instant hit and was adopted by other stations around the country.
But what if the holiday season takes you even further afield, so that you don't even have a plasma TV to keep … Read more
Talks to make The Beatles' catalog available on Apple's iTunes have "stalled," according to Paul McCartney.
Apparently the impasse is between the band's representatives and record label EMI, McCartney told the Associated Press in London on Monday. EMI, the smallest of the four top recording companies can't close a deal with iTunes or any new music formats without the authorization of the Beatles: McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the estates of the late George Harrison and John Lennon.
McCartney made the comments at an … Read more
A flood of red ink continues to threaten to swamp most of the major recording companies. The exception appears to be Universal Music Group, the largest of the majors.
Last week, UMG said that revenue grew by 3.5 percent in the first nine months of 2008 on a constant currency basis to $3.97 billion. Compare this with some of UMG's rivals. Warner Music Group reported a $9 million net loss for the third quarter. At EMI, in the first year with new owner Terra Firma guiding the label, it has lost more than $1 billion.
So what'… Read more
UPDATE 5:15 p.m. In a move that underscores the waning significance of CDs, the EMI Group has spoken to the other three major music labels about taking over the company's U.S. music distribution, according to two industry sources.
EMI, which represents artists such as The Beatles and Coldplay and makes up about 8.2 percent of U.S. album sales, is looking to outsource distribution to one of its three larger competitors: Universal Music Group, Sony Music, or Warner Music Group, according to two sources familiar with the talks. EMI's representatives met with one of … Read more
A fitting anthem for Michael Robertson these days would be The Rolling Stones' hit, Get Off of My Cloud.
For nearly a decade, Robertson, the often controversial cofounder of MP3.com and Linspire, has toiled to store music in the cloud, the term used to describe the seemingly limitless amount of data and services accessible with a Web browser. But in the past, Robertson's efforts have led him into epic legal battles with the music industry. That's where he finds himself once again. In November, EMI filed a copyright suit against him and his music service, MP3tunes.com. … Read more
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According to the Financial Times, music label EMI is planning to launch its own music portal to sell songs and videos, and offer some free content as well.
My first reaction was similar to that of the anonymous music executive quoted in the FT article: dead on arrival. Listeners don't know and don't care about labels; they want to buy all their music in one place, and so on.
But surely EMI's digital team, led by former Googler Douglas Merrill, is smart enough to realize that it can't take on Apple's iTunes with a label-specific … Read more
A federal judge has dismissed a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by EMI Group against Michael Robertson, founder of MP3tunes.
The bad news for Robertson, who also founded MP3.com and Linspire is that the judge allowed EMI, one of the four largest recording companies, to continue to pursue the copyright claims against MP3tunes, court documents show.
The case, filed last November in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, was brought by 14 record companies and music publishers affiliated with EMI.
MP3tunes enables users to store music in the so-called cloud. The company's 150,000 customers … Read more
Update Sept. 25, 4:47 a.m. PDT: MySpace and the four record labels have officially unveiled MySpace Music.
NEW YORK--Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will officially take on Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday.
That's when MySpace is expected to launch MySpace Music, the music service formed by the world's second largest social network and all four of the largest recording companies, executives from the News Corp.-owned social network said Wednesday.
MySpace executives said the EMI Group, which took much longer to join the venture than its three competitors, will make its entire music library available to … Read more
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