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Amazon (s AMZN) has won a patent to create a virtual marketplace where users could resell digital content like apps, songs and ebooks. But it’s unclear whether such a marketplace would be legal under current copyright law.
Apple and EMI announced that the iTunes store is exclusively selling ringtones from The Beatles for $1.29 each. The 30-second tones are from the The Beatles no. 1 hits album called 1, which represent the 27 top Beatles tunes in the U.S. and UK.
Following on from Part 1 of the ‘Innovation Files’ series, this post looks at EMI’s OpenEMI initiative and how it could drive transformation…
After the sale to Terra Firma, the ensuring disaster, the salvage by Citigroup and the refinancing, could the next chapter for EMI be… ano…
EMI Music Publishing is pulling in-house from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) how some of its songs are li…
Radiohead’s last album, In Rainbows, was a little misunderstood in so far as, following its initial online-only release on a pay-what-you-li…
EMI Music is finally licensing Beatport, a specialist online retailer of electronica music, in a deal that will satisfy many electronic musi…
EMI Group’s holding company Maltby Investments Ltd, after defaulting on its loans, has called in PwC as administrators, who have in turn sol…
In many ways, it seems like the “bad old days” between content and internet companies are over. While Viacom’s high-profile copyright lawsui…
EMI again isn’t detailing how much money it’s making from digital in latest earnings, but it is saying estimates for digital growth were too…
By Jemima Kiss: Here is the spot where the video for Jay-Z and Alicia Keys spoof Newport State of Mind once lived…
The umpteenth restructure at EMI Group, since the Terra Firma takeover three years ago, sees the chief of one of its two divisions upped to…
EMI Music has chosen former Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Europe exec Bertrand Bodson as SVP, global digital marketing. When he starts June 7, Bodson…
The on-again, off-again interest is starting to sound like a ‘bad romance’. But Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music may be rekindling its interest in EM…
The album’s not dead yet – well, not in Pink Floyd’s case at least. A judge has ruled in favour of the prog rock band, which went to the UK…
In another bit of EMI news, less vital to the company’s future than today’s latest change at the top, OK Go and Capitol Records have parted…
For want of an embed code, the band was lost…to their own independent label. Viral music video experts and indie rock band…
Litigious EMI may have avoided a court showdown with yet another digital music startup (it’s settled a case over lyrics data with TuneWiki),…
By Julia Finch. EMI, the music group behind artists ranging from Pink Floyd to Katy Perry and country and western band Lady Antebellum, cras…
A judge has thrown out a complaint by record label EMI against the founders of now-defunct music search engine Seeqpod, effectively ending a year-old case that attracted special attention because it also named as a defendant a developer who had used the company’s API.
Beleaguered private equity group Terra Firma is now trying to raise an additional $160 million to keep EMI afloat, according to numerous rep…
[show=okgo size=large]In the drama over embedding music videos from YouTube, recently the band OK Go (who broke into the mainstream thanks in…
What is a lip-sync worth? According to a lawsuit filed by Capitol Records (EMI), millions in copyright violations, at least as far as Vime…
EMI is buying Loudclothing.com, a Leicester, England-based retailer of band t-shirts and other accessories, as it looks to broaden the range…
By Phillip Inman: The private equity owner of EMI is suing Citigroup for £1.5 billion after it accused the US investment bank of artificial…
Terra Firma may have written off 90 percent of its investment in the label after Citigroup refused to ignore about half the debt it provided…
Terra Firma’s really been brought down to earth, in more ways than one: after failing to restructure EMI’s debt, it has written down about 9…
You’ve got to marvel at BlueBeat’s chutzpah. The music site that quickly attracted an EMI lawsuit this week for selling Beatles tracks for $…
When music site BlueBeat decided to offer The Beatles tracks for $0.25 each, as Staci wrote this week, it knew it would be controversial.
Of all the anticipation over the last couple of years, this was not the way we expected The Beatles archive to manifest digitally. Fans can…
With recorded music sales still ebbing away, the only part of the industry that can truly make money from fans, conventional wisdom goes, is…
BlueBeat Music has found one way to stand out among the plethora of music streaming and download sites: stream The Beatles’ catalog (origina…
Streaming music service Grooveshark has signed a licensing agreement with EMI, six months after being sued by the music label, AllThingsD re…
By this time next week, EMI Music will have launched a new iPhone app tied to the launch of one of its “major artists” — and it will be a b…
— FremantleMedia Enterprises: The London-based prodco has plucked Mel Alcock from digital agency iCrossing to be its new CEO for EMEA. His…
By Bobbie Johnson: The Beatles coming to iTunes is the New Year’s Eve of rumours: it comes out once a year and always end up disappointing y…
Is EMI Music getting closer to the edge? That is the growing consensus, based on a souring loan situation. The latest to pile on is the Wall…
We first reported the fourth-place major music label’s launch of its new EMI.com site back in December — an artist showcase, rather than a…
Guy Hands has won backing for plans to re-finance EMI: investors in his Terra Firma private equity firm, which owns the major, have given th…
Four months after he took over EMI’s digital marketing, former Second Life tech exec Cory Ondrejka is rebooting the label’s online strategy…
Another day, another major label legal challenge… Elio Leoni-Sceti’s EMI has filed a lawsuit against Florida-based music streaming site Gr…
If EMI Music makes a huge amount of digital revenues, it certainly doesn’t like to shout about it. In its year-end results to March 31 — i…
In its latest appointment after more than a year of restructuring, EMI Music has named Bauer Media’s chief marketing officer Andria Vidler i…
— EMI YourSoundcheck: After last year unveiling EMI.com, the label has launched an other own-brand, consumer-facing website, YourSoundcheck…
Guy Hands is giving up daily operations of private equity firm Terra Firma, owner of EMI, moving to group chairman and chief investment offi…
As the post-credit bubble world adjusts to deal with pre-bubble deals, Terra Firma has written off half the value of its
Seeqpod’s founders must feel like Mike Robertson about now. Just as EMI is suing the MP3.com founder for his Sideload site, the label and it…
Not letting ISPs forget they have a part to play the battle against online music piracy, new EMI Music CEO Elio Leoni-Sceti is calling on th…
As the music biz tries to cope with a disappearing physical CD sales market, EMI appears to be taking some steps in the right direction. The…
As the music biz tries to cope with a disappearing physical CD sales market, EMI appears to be taking some steps in the right direction. The…
Kirkland, Wash.-based Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) has named David Sach as CFO, replacing John Butler, who stepped down in September after Clearwi…
Another batch of changes from EMI and owner Terra Firma, but, in a statement, Terra Firma head Guy Hands described the new appointments as “…
— Slicethepie/SoundOut: Music fan-funding platform Slicethepie has launched a music analytics service SoundOut to give A&R stats on the sal…
Nevermind iTunes, EMI Music is going direct to fans with the surprise launch of a new EMI.com site featuring playlists, recommendations an…
EMI Music and Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) have agreed to extend their existing marketing and distribution deal in India and the Middle Ea…
After Terra Firma scorched EMI’s earth over the last year, its new CEO Elio Leoni-Sceti is sowing new seeds with his own management restruct…
As Terra Firma’s new broom continues sweeping clean at EMI – with restructuring, job cuts and savings on those lavish artist luxuries – it’s…
You wouldn’t wish your enemies the job of trying to restructure and revive EMI at this point, but at least they are trying: Elio Leoni-Sceti…
A new front is opening in the paid music download war just in time for the holidays: Beggars Group, Warner Music, The Orchard (NSDQ: ORCD),…
Looks like that turnaround plan may take a while longer to, well, turn things around. EMI losses more than doubled in the year Terra Firma t…
EMI is planning a pre-holiday launch of a new music portal that will include the ability to buy downloads, according to the FT. We’ve confir…
EMI is planning to launch its own consumer-facing portal to market its artists
A bit of news you’re reading here first — EMI Music is bringing on Howard Handler as EVP/Head of Marketing for North America. Expect the an…
We7, the Peter Gabriel-backed music site that offers free tracks by grafting audio ads to the start of songs, has got a license from EMI Mus…
Record labels have to keep experimenting on new ways to market their products. Case in point: Capitol/EMI says it is partnering with newspap…
Music start-up vet Mark Piibe is moving to the digital side at EMI as global head of digital business development for EMI Music. Effective i…
Now that the extravagant “flowers” bill has come down, EMI’s turnaround certainly looks on track. The label may not have to report its earni…
— EMI Music: EMI Group has enlisted the European head of Air Wick maker Reckitt Benckiser
— BBC: BBC marketing director Tim Davie is being tapped to replace Heritage-Lottery Fund-bound Jenny Abramski as director of Audio & Music,…
Beatles representatives, who haven’t yet reached a deal to offer the band’s music online, are now in talks with two video games companies fo…
SpiralFrog, the ad-funded free music and video download site, has signed a distribution deal with UK-based label EMI, giving it access to t…
Terra Firma chief executive Guy Hands reaffirmed his restructuring plan for EMI Group in a recent note to partners. The address, which trav…
UK rock group Coldplay made its new single, Violet Hill, available for free for a week from yesterday at coldplay.com – and is already findi…
Music publishing company Chrysalis has ended takeover talks with prospective buyers, which included EMI and Warner Chappell, the music publi…
Just got off the phone with Douglas Merrill, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CIO who is leaving what
Another high profile Google (NSDQ: GOOG) departure: VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill has left the online giant and joined the embattled mus…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) looks set to gain EMI’s repertoire to add to the Universal catalogue that will be part of its upcoming Comes With Music pr…
— EMI, SendMe Sign Deal: Mobile media company SendMe has signed a deal with EMI Music, which will see SendMe offering EMI’s full catalog of…
Updated below: EMI announced its restructuring and layoffs earlier today, but an un-noticed move on the digital side, till now: Barney Wragg…
EMI confirmed today that it will cut up to 2,000 jobs at the company in a planned restructuring of its recorded music division that is expec…
Terra Firma’s much-anticipated restructuring of EMI will result in major job cuts and a fresh equity investment, according to reports on the…
Terra Firma’s much-anticipated restructuring of EMI will result in major job cuts and a fresh equity investment, according to reports on the…
Guy Hands’ new strategy to turn EMI around will stress
Guy Hands’ new strategy to turn EMI around will stress
With In Rainbows’ digital-only running having ended and some time having elapsed since Radiohead’s departure from EMI’s Parlophone, Thom Yor…
What’s likely to be one of the biggest boons to digital music downloads so far is still creeping ever closer. The Beatles’ material should g…
Terra Firma’s plans for turning EMI around supposedly include cutting $58 million (£29 million) off A&R and marketing budgets “by using soc…
The new broom sweeping clean at EMI also wants to clear up the small matter of online music storage. Labels owned by the group on Friday fil…
“Change is good” seems to be the ongoing mantra at EMI, which is hiring former BAA CEO (yes, an airports boss) and music producer Billy Mann…
If you thought pricing innovation in downloadable music was practised only by artists you wouldn’t be embarrassed to listen to (Radiohead th…
Terra Firma’s changing of the EMI guard continues as it brings on ex Virgin Money CEO Mark Hodgkinson as consumer development director. In t…
Sometimes it takes an outsider to call a spade a spade: Guy Hands, the new owner of EMI after the label was bought by his private equity hou…
Here’s a pricing model you might call the online equivalent of busking – Radiohead, without a label after their EMI/Capitol contract expired…
Private equity group Terra Firma, which bought music label EMI (EMI.L) will keep the company intact and not sell its recorded music division…
Not to be outdone by social networking sites that have effectively taken the role of labels by promoting and distributing music for emerging…
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Last month, EMI made Paul McCartney’s back-catalog available to digital music retailers; next up it’s Ringo Starr. EMI will…
James Blunt and Hard-Fi will start blogging on YouTube and Flickr using their mobile phones today as part of a deal between mobile video soc…
Eric Nicoli crammed a lot into his first major U.S. address since taking the full operational reigns as CEO of EMI. The obligatory announcem…
Mobile media company Player X has partnered with Hollywood Gaming and EMI Music Publishing for a new mobile game concept that incorporates t…
Digital Chocolate has teamed with EMI Music Canada to “deliver an innovative mobile entertainment experience that merges mobile music and ga…
Chingy, a rapper with EMI Group’s Capitol Records, has “recorded over a 100 versions of his “Dem Jeans” single using a different popular gir…
EMI has signed an agreement with Shanghai Media Group, which runs a number of media operations including a mobile TV station. The deal cover…
EMI is offering free Robbie Williams, Lily Allen and Gorillaz music videos for T-Mobile UK customers as a part of a UK trial into ad-support…
Blue Note Records (part of EMI) has begun releasing realtones based on the recordings of legendary jazz artists, including Thelonious Monk,…
You knew this was coming sooner or later: Music/new media vet and industry fixture Ted Cohen (also the new chairman of Mobile Entertainment…
EMI Group has released its preliminary financial results for the year ending March 31st, showing a growth in total revenue of 3.9% year-on-y…
EMI Music senior vice president for Digital Development Ted Cohen has predicted that widespread deployment of high-bandwidth networks — par…
I am not sure why this is a big deal, or even makes sense: it is one of those “just-coz-we-can” kind of deals. Anyway, the details: eBay-own…
FunMail has signed a deal with EMI to offer TrueTones based on the label’s artists, which include Coldplay, Norah Jones, Dem Franchize Boyz…
