Did we mention that Billy Bragg is speaking at EconMusic, our London conference examining the digital music business on September 23? Billy has previously taken on MySpace for its policy…

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Since digital downloads became eligible for Top 40 chart positions in 2005, some artists have moved higher on the overall rundown thanks to online alone - and have been releasing…

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HMV.com will this month become the latest site to offer two of this year’s key music trends - DRM-free MP3 downloads and on-site streaming of tracks. The retailer had already…

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Music store Wippet, which once blazed a trail in legal P2P, has shut down. Distorted Loop quotes a spokesperson as saying: “Wippit finally succumbed to tough market conditions and the…

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Online music retailer eMusic‘s CEO David Pakman is fearful of July’s memorandum of understanding, in which ISPs agreed to reduce piracy on their nets and instead tempt users to legal…

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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 Music - but not for…

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Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) ambitious all-you-can-eat mobile music service, Comes With Music, will launch in UK next month, and will then be rolled out in continental Europe and Asia next year.…

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DCD Media, the UK-based group specializing in the production and distribution of entertainment and music programming, had taken a 19.9 percent stake in a new online broadcasting venture, Classical TV,…

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Online sports video distributor Perform says it has signed up ITV (LSE: ITV) Sport, News International, Telegraph.co.uk, Guardian.co.uk, Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT), Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI), Evening Standard, Metro and…

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Mobile content news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- What’s Happening With Vivendi Games Mobile? Possible Sale Coming: What is going on with Vivendi Games Mobile, the mobile gaming unit…

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Stockholm-based online gaming software maker NYX Interactive has attracted a €5 million investment from Player X backer Nordic Venture Partners to fund international expansion. NYX makes technology for bingo, lotto,…

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OleOle, the social football site where the users author most of the content, has acquired AVFC Blog, the leading Aston Villa journal with 200,000 monthly visits - said to be…

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Bandstocks, another website that will let music fans “invest” in their favourite unsigned acts, is getting generous coverage in this morning’s papers, though it’s only got two artists so far…

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Imagine a football pitch touchline ad that changes depending on your location. Finnish software firm Supponor has secured a first-round investment of €6 million to do exactly that. The Helsinki…

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Twistbox, the mobile entertainment firm which is owned by OTC-traded Mandalay Media, is in the process of buying out European mobile content firm AMV Holding. For now, this is an…

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So you thought you’d fritter some time away playing Scrabulous over the Bank Holiday? No such luck. A few weeks after developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla shut down access to…

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Advertising giant WPP now owns a majority of Shanghai-based in-game advertising outfit InGame Ad Interactive Technology’s owner IGA Ltd, after buying a further 12.82 percent share of the company. That…

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Royalty Share, the digital royalty manager that recently took funding from William Morris, has acquired Broad Street Digital, a unit of Arbinet. Broad Street Digital is the developer of RightsRouter,…

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-- MuZu TV: The music video startup has signed up with ITN On to get access to ITN Source’s 80,000-hour archive of Reuters, Granada and Channel 4 music interviews and…

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Turns out game maker Topware‘s latest legal action against an illegal game sharer is just the tip of an iceberg. Lifting the lid, The Times says a total five game…

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Record labels have to keep experimenting on new ways to market their products. Case in point: Capitol/EMI says it is partnering with newspaper publisher Gannett (NYSE: GCI) to offer free…

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-- Championat.tv: LiveJournal owner Sup is launching a sports TV portal, Championat.tv, alongside its existing sports portal of the same name. Sup expects 500,000 monthly uniques by year’s end. It’s…

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Video games maker Topware has won another piracy case, this time scoring £16,000 after it said a woman illegally shared one of its titles online. Topware has been bringing several…

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We reported last week the BBC’s online services are proving popular for office workers unable to watch live Olympics on the devices formerly known as “televisions”; now there are figures…

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-- Premier League footy on GO!VIEW: PSP video on demand service GO!VIEW has struck a distribution deal to allow PSP owners to watch Barclays Premier League football on their devices.…

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