LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The magnitude of Sony Music Entertainment's landmark recording contract with the estate of Michael Jackson raises an inevitable question: Is it a smart deal for the label? Given Jackson's superstar status, his influential creative legacy and the market's ...
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Almost a decade after the major labels launched their legal assault on Napster, courts are still writing the rules of the road for the music business's digital future. Companies can't set out to build a business based on ...
US firm Warner Music has joined forces with private equity giant KKR to consider a bid for British music company EMI, which would break the company up, a newspaper reported Sunday. Warner and the private equity firm met in recent weeks to ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity firm KKR <KKR.UL> and U.S. music company Warner Music Group <WMG.N> are in talks to launch a break-up bid for Warner's indebted British rival EMI <LNDONE.UL>, reported the Sunday Times. The paper said KKR is interested in ...
Record industry bosses hit back Tuesday at the "myth" that musicians no longer need them to become successful, insisting the Internet can help raise their profile but cannot make them stars. The success of the Arctic Monkeys, the British band who made ...
<div><p>On the eve of its launch, Vevo announced Monday that it has struck a deal with EMI Music to include artists from the major label on the new music video website.</p><p>EMI music videos will join those of artists from Universal Music Group ...
<div id="subtitle">EMI signs onto Universal-backed music video site Vevo a day before launch</div><div><p>Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a ...
<div id="subtitle">Judge orders Boston student to destroy music downloads but refuses to limit his statements</div><div><p>A graduate student who must pay four record labels a combined $675,000 in damages for downloading and sharing songs online has been ordered to destroy his illegal music ...
<div id="subtitle">MySpace completes acquisition of imeem music site for less than $1 million; gains mobile apps</div><div><p>MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications ...
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a grainy black and white Web video, similar to footage from an in-store security camera, you can make out the muscular frame of rapper 50 Cent, smashing dozens of TV sets with a baseball bat.</p><p>None too subtle ...
