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Napster says European music licensing hampered

The US-listed company, which rescued the Napster brand from bankruptcy 14 months ago, on Sunday claimed that failure to reach agreement on licensing music had exacerbated illegal internet piracy in Europe. Speaking at the annual Midem music conference in Cannes, Mr Gorog said: "Administratively, there are some real challenges [for licensing societies] to keep up with our requirements. We would like to debut with more than half a million tracks in Europe ... but we are months away from a resolution."

Financial Times, 2004, January 26th | Language: EN | 0 words

Kazaa krijgt groen licht vervolging muzieklabels

Sharman heeft van een Amerikaanse rechter groen licht gekregen om muzieklabels aan te klagen die Kazaa gebruiken om uploaders op te sporen. Het bedrijf beschuldigt muzieklabels ervan onbevoegd ongelicenseerde versies van Kazaa te hebben gebruikt om het downloadgedrag van Kazaa-gebruikers in de gaten te houden.

Webwereld, 2004, January 23rd | Language: NL | 253 words

IFPI report says music industry's internet strategy is 'turning the corner'

London, January 22, 2004 - The music industry's internet strategy is turning the corner, with new legal online music sites spreading fast and the campaign against illegal music file-swapping making a clear impact across the world.

IFPI, 2004, January 22nd | Language: EN | 696 words

RIAA embarks on new round of piracy suits

(...) launched its largest wave of file-swapping lawsuits Wednesday, filing new copyright infringement suits against 532 currently unnamed individuals.

Cnet, 2004, January 22nd | Language: EN | 933 words

Muziekindustrie strijdbaar naar Midembeurs

En wellicht zal de muziekindustrie aankondigen dat ze de internetpiraten nu ook wereldwijd juridisch zal aanpakken. Volgens Marcel Heymans wordt het vanaf nu menens. (...) In de V.S. zakte de muziekverkoop vorig jaar nauwelijks, in Europa neemt hij nog dramatisch af. [Dirk De Clippeleir] "De muziekindustrie heeft altijd op één drager geteerd. Dat maakt ons kwetsbaar." De Super Audio-cd (SACD) wordt zeker een belangrijke nieuwe drager. Uiteindelijk zullen we daar belanden, denk ik: een SACD voor de echte fan, die mooi verpakt is en goed beveiligd; en een goedkope versie zonder veel omhaal, die kwalitatief minder goed is. Heel wat grote cd's zullen dit jaar op SACD uitkomen. zie ook www.midem.com

De Standaard, 2004, January 22nd | Language: NL | 0 words

Nieuwe cd's sneller in bibliotheek

Als het leenrecht van kracht wordt, mogen nieuwe cd's al na twee maanden in de bibliotheek uitgeleend worden. "Dit is bedroevend", zegt de muzikant Kris Wauters, die zich engageert in de strijd tegen de piraterij. De bibliotheken respecteerden het embargo [van 6 maanden] toch niet, en de meeste Europese landen kennen geen embargo, meldt de woordvoerster van Moerman.

De Standaard, 2004, January 22nd | Language: NL | 0 words

U.K. music industry eyes song swappers

The British music industry will sue Internet song swappers unless they stop putting their music collection online for others to download. Under a new U.K. copyright law, file-sharing has been criminalized. But few expect it will result in jail time for downloaders.

Cnet, 2004, January 21st | Language: EN | 458 words

Europeans pay for millions of songs

Europeans purchased more than three million song downloads in 2003 from the continent's primary online music store, OD2 [which licenses its download service to 30 European retail and Internet partners, including HMV and Microsoft's MSN]. (...) The more mature US market is growing even faster. American music fans purchased 30 million download tracks in 2003. OD2 is the most established player in Europe, having arranged licensing deals with all five major music labels, giving it a catalogue of 260,000 songs. [BROKEN] the link above does no longer work, if you have the right one or a copy of the full article, please mail me! Your effort will be greatly appreciated!

Zdnet, 2004, January 20th | Language: EN | 0 words

Study: Music Piracy Rising

The number of U.S. households downloading music from peer-to-peer networks rose 6 percent in October and 7 percent in November after a six-month decline (...). The RIAA has filed more than 380 copyright infringement lawsuits against individuals across the country since September and reached settlements for thousands of dollars with hundreds of individuals since.

Wired, 2004, January 19th | Language: EN | 495 words

[VIDEO] Kazaa can block downloads, but won't -porn firm

Pornography producer Titan Media said Kazaa (...) can closely monitor activity on the network through "spyware" installed on users' computers and could use that capability to block its users from downloading copyrighted files. Pornography accounts for more than 40 percent of the material on Kazaa, he [Keith Ruoff] said. [BROKEN] the link above does no longer work, if you have the right one or a copy of the full article, please mail me! Your effort will be greatly appreciated!

Forbes, 2004, January 19th | Language: EN | 0 words

Kazaa rates No. 1 on Yahoo Search list

The most popular topic for users of Yahoo Search last year was the Web's largest file-sharing network. "Kazaa beat out heavy hitters like Harry Potter and Britney Spears to take top overall honors."

Beacon Journal, 2004, January 19th | Language: EN | 152 words

Rights issue dogs CD protection

A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs (...) could result in record labels owing tens of millions of dollars in back payments to music publishers. At issue are "double session" CDs that include two versions of each song on a disc, formatted for playback on different kinds of devices.

Cnet, 2004, January 15th | Language: EN | 1336 words

[VIDEO] Piracy fears validated after film surfaces on Internet

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2004, January 14th | Language: EN | 298 words

Canadian MP3 player tax challenged

The Copyright Board of Canada ruled in December that hard drive-based digital music players should be subject to fees aimed at compensating musicians, songwriters and record labels for copyright infringement.

Cnet, 2004, January 14th | Language: EN | 246 words

[VIDEO] Real's CEO warns of video piracy

The rate of innovation (in the film and video industry) is not what is needed to avoid the Napsterization the music industry went through (...) While online music services such as Apple's iTunes and Real's Rhapsody have taken off in the past year, video services are lagging. [BROKEN] the link above does no longer work, if you have the right one or a copy of the full article, please mail me! Your effort will be greatly appreciated!

Digit Magazine, 2004, January 12th | Language: EN | 0 words

HP declares war on sharing culture

HP's CEO Carly Fiorina filled her keynote speech at CES with media piracy rhetoric, saying that consumers are undermining the economy and the morals of this nation by exchanging music. Fiorina went on to say HP will be the media industry's first rate lackey and do all it can to equip files with DRM (digital rights management) controls.

The Register, 2004, January 11th | Language: EN | 1020 words

Digital Music Needs A New Track

Belgium-based consumer watchdog Test Aankoop filed the suit against giants such as... (...) More important, the lawsuit shows that copy protection, one of the big hopes of the music industry, hasn't struck the right balance with consumers yet. (...) Copy protection has been a miserable failure in the United States so far due to bad execution and bad user experience (...) While 2 billion CDs are manufactured globally each year, almost none of those sold in the United States are copy protected.

Forbes, 2004, January 11th | Language: EN | 989 words

Telenet wil klare taal over vermeende muziekpiraten

Een paragraaf uit het volledige persbericht n.a.v. dagvaardiging door IFPI. Telenet erkent ten volle het recht van auteurs om hun werken te beschermen tegen onrechtmatige verspreiding. Maar de klanten die actief zijn in deze nieuwsgroepen, gebruiken Telenets infrastructuur louter als een vehikel voor de distributie van hun data. Telenet doet zelf geen controle op de inhoud van de gegevens die door zijn klanten worden getransporteerd over het netwerk. Telenet erkent het recht op privacy en vrijheid van meningsuiting van zijn klanten.

Persbericht Telenet, 2004, January 11th | Language: NL | 1234 words

Ten Colo. music swappers settle lawsuits for up to $4,000

The settlements were made available Tuesday in U.S. District Court. Eight people settled for between $1,000 and $4,000 while two people were not ordered to pay. All agreed to not use the Internet to illegally download music in the future. (...) Most of the RIAA's cases have been settled. Record companies can legally demand $150,000 per song, but defense lawyers familiar with some of the cases have said penalties ranged from $2,500 to $7,500 each.

Usa Today, 2004, January 8th | Language: EN | 301 words

Sony unveils music store, gadgets at CES

The company announced a music download service called Connect, which will be available this spring and will offer more than 500,000 titles for 99 cents per track (...) ATRAC will be the audio format used by the service.

Cnet, 2004, January 8th | Language: EN | 595 words

Radio 1 verkocht al 13.000 muziekbestanden

Via de site van Radio 1 wordt momenteel een honderdtal liedjes te koop aangeboden. Het gaat om een selectie van populaire Belgische nummers die door de luisteraars van het radiostation werd gemaakt en die al eerder op 27 december werd uitgezonden. De aansluitende downloadactie is een initiatief van onder meer de IFPI, de koepelorganisatie van de muziekindustrie.

Zdnet, 2004, January 7th | Language: NL | 413 words

Anti-piracy effort in schools raises fairness questions

As part of its campaign to thwart online music and movie piracy, Hollywood is reaching into school classrooms with a program that denounces file-sharing and offers prizes for spreading the word. [BROKEN] the link above does no longer work, if you have the right one or a copy of the full article, please mail me! Your effort will be greatly appreciated!

Indystar, 2004, January 7th | Language: EN | 0 words

Music sales are on the mend

Recent data from Nielsen SoundScan shows that an improving economy is having a positive effect on the music biz.

The Register, 2004, January 7th | Language: EN | 413 words

Amerikaanse muziekdownloaders zijn bang

de nederlandse versie van onderstaand artikel (Music downloads decline after RIAA lawsuits) in cnet

De Standaard, 2004, January 6th | Language: NL | 464 words

IFPI response to Netherlands Supreme Court judgement on Kazaa

Following the decision, the international recording industry has issued a call to Kazaa take three key steps necessary to help deal with the large numbers of unauthorised copies of copyrighted products that remain available through its service. (...) In particular IFPI believes that Kazaa is able to control and filter, and thus should be held responsible for, infringements taking place on its service.

IFPI, 2004, January 5th | Language: EN | 439 words

Unexpected twists in Internet law

Dit artikel is een overzicht van 2003 met betrekking tot 'internetrecht'. Het beschrijft o.a. de Anti Spam Bill, Pop-up advertising, Music Industry, Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)...

Cnet, 2004, January 5th | Language: EN | 1635 words

Music downloads decline after RIAA lawsuits

(U.S. research) The number of downloaders fell to about 18 million people in the winter period, from 35 million in the spring, the Pew study found. The user base of leading platform Kazaa shrank by 15 percent while Grokster's declined 59 percent, according to comScore Media Metrix, Pew's data partner for the study.

Cnet, 2004, January 5th | Language: EN | 391 words