Digital distribution news
Friday, 03 September 2010 10:20
GEMA FAILS TO GET INTERIM INJUNCTION IN YOUTUBE DISPUTE
As we recently reported, German collecting society GEMA has been in dispute with YouTube for more than a year now over licensing rates. Licensing talks between the two broke down last May and GEMA asked the German court to issue an injunction to force YouTube to remove any videos containing…
Monday, 23 August 2010 08:42
Digital album sales up with 51% in Germany
Sales of digital albums grew 51% in both unit terms and value terms in first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. These details come from German music association BVMI and show that 4.7m digital albums were sold in the first six months of this year compared…
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 10:52
YouTube vs GEMA
As you may have noticed or heard, YouTube is currently blocking a selection of videos on YouTube Germany. This is because negotiations between the German collecting society GEMA and YouTube have broken down.YouTube gives the following explanation:
" Our policy has always been to only monetize music in territories where…
Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:13
EPM Online's latest store deals II
And EPM Online just signed deals with these online stores:
France Telecom/ Orange (www.orange.com);
OneCluster, (to be launched in September 2010 - www.onecluster.com);
Thumbplay (www.thumbplay.com);
Aim4Music (www.aim4music.nl);
Satellite (www.satelliterecords.com);
More to follow soon!
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:29
EPM Online's latest store deals
In the past few weeks EPM Online signed deals with the following online stores:
YouLoad, Germany - (http://www.youload.de/)
My Clubbing Store, France - (http://www.myclubbingstore.com/en/)
So Mixx, Spain - (http://www.somixx.com/)
Traxsource, USA - (http://www.traxsource.com/)
More to follow!
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:03
Music streaming service Spotify launched in the Netherlands and introduces two new products.
Music streaming service Spotify launches in the Netherlands and introduces two new products.
Today is the day Spotify launches in the Netherlands: Spotify’s 7th European market.
Spotify indicated that it plans to launch in the US later this year.
The company also announced two new products that will be available…
Monday, 17 May 2010 09:34
50% OF DANCE LABELS SUPPORT THREE-STRIKES
CMU Daily http://www.theCMUwebsite.com report that dance music website Data Transmission recently surveyed 200 label execs, pluggers, publicists and producers about all things piracy and digital, and found that, while often not so vocal about these things, the independent dance sector is facing much of the same issues as the rest…
Monday, 10 May 2010 12:05
Apple plans to shut down Lala.com
Apple plans to shut down its newly acquired online music service Lala.com at the end of May.
What Apple plans to do exactly with Lala.com and/or its technology is not known yet.
More news to follow!
Monday, 10 May 2010 11:24
Spotify plans to launch in The Netherlands soon
Spotify plans to launch in The Netherlands soon
Streaming service Spotify has confirmed it will launch in the Netherlands soon.
Dutch media suggests the service will launch on the 18th of May.
More news to follow!
Monday, 03 May 2010 21:24
Fileshares paid for other people's music
Below is an email from a filesharing website service. This shows everyone gets paid except the person that actually made the music or the label that spends money to master, promote and release the music.Labels pay mechanical royalties to release music, legal download stores do the same to sell the…