Channel - Music | paidContent:UK

@ MusicTank: Weekend Video: Terry McBride, CEO, Nettwerk Music Group - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jul 2008 07:38 AM PST

Terry McBride’s Nettwerk is perhaps best known for funding the legal defense for a 15-year-old music downloader sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). But the label, which…

@ MusicTank: Lavigne To Rake $2 Million From YouTube Plays - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Jul 2008 08:16 AM PST

Avril Lavigne is set to score a big pay day thanks to YouTube revenue. Nettwerk Management CEO Terry McBride told MusicTank’s Face To Face With The Millennials in London today:…

EU-Wide Licenses Approved For Music Sites; Services Applaud Reforms; Artists, Not So Much - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 16 Jul 2008 08:42 AM PST

Digital music providers welcomed today’s EC decision to end Europe’s country-by-country royalties collection system, a move that will make it easier for them to license songs for online use. 7Digital…

New Launches: The Film Club, MuZu TV Aim For Movie, Music Crowds - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 11:06 AM PST

-- The Film Club: Another bunch of film distributors is setting up an online distributor. Terry Stone, Mike Watson and Anthony Nottage are working on The Film Lounge, an adult…

EMI Turnaround Well Underway; Radiohead Go With Google - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 02:20 AM PST

Now that the extravagant “flowers” bill has come down, EMI’s turnaround certainly looks on track. The label may not have to report its earnings publicly since it was taken private…

Last.fm’s Indie Talks Stall, Labels Protest ‘Illegal’ Use Of Repertoire - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 12:45 PM PST

Independent labels are taking legal advice over what they say is illegal use of their repertoire by CBS’ (NYSE: CBS) Last.fm, after efforts to strike a royalty accord stalled, paidContent:UK…

Music Bits: SonyBMG/UMG MP3, Virgin Stalling, Fatboy Slim - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 12:50 AM PST

-- SonyBMG/UMG MP3: Digital music retailer 7digital will be taking DRM-free MP3 repertoire from SonyBMG and Universal “imminently”, we can reveal. The label got MP3s from EMI last summer and…

Save The Date: EconMusic Seminar: September 23, Natural History Museum - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 08 Jul 2008 12:01 AM PST

Just another reminder that, on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 23, we will be throwing EconMusic, a half-day conference in London discussing the emerging economics of the digital music business.…

HMV Chief: ‘Ain’t Much We Can Do About Illegal Downloads’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 07 Jul 2008 05:31 AM PST

“Music is not a commodity,” declares HMV (LSE: HMV) boss Simon Fox in a lengthy interview in the Sunday Telegraph on the retailer’s digital future. It’s a rather ironic pronouncement…

Digital Won’t Halt Music Downfall, Radiohead Go Free Again - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 02 Jul 2008 07:59 AM PST

The growth of online and mobile won’t stop the fall in music buying over the next few years, according to an eMarketer survey of published forecasts. The research aggregator says…

Music Biz Doubles On-Demand Income, Digi Sales Still Small - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 30 Jun 2008 03:19 AM PST

Maybe free online music can give money back to the industry after all. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says digital licensing income from on-demand streaming services, including ad-supported offerings like…

BT Begins Warning Music Sharers, Portgual Sends Them To Jail - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:37 AM PST

BT (NYSE: BT) appears to have joined Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) in sending warnings to its customers whom the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says are illegally sharing music. One such…

U2’s Bono: Our Manager Wrong On Radiohead, But ISP Profiteering ‘Disturbing’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 29 Jun 2008 02:49 PM PST

U2 manager Paul McGuinness may this year have become one of the music industry’s biggest advocates of action against ISPs and social networks, but not all of his comments have…

Concert Rec Engine Songkick Closes First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 26 Jun 2008 10:06 PM PST

Songkick, a US-UK concert recommendation engine, has closed its first round, estimated by VentureBeat at $1.1 million from the Accelerator Group’s Saul Klein. Based in Brooklyn and London, the company…

Amazon MP3: Heading Towards British Soil? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:58 PM PST

Is Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) readying a launch of its MP3-based store in the United Kingdom? Amazon executives have been visiting British label heads, and are planning a splash later this…

Forget Digital Music, Beatles In Talks For Video Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 22 Jun 2008 07:06 PM PST

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 for a Beatles-themed video game, in a…

@ London Calling: Bundled Music Services “Commoditizing” Music? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 20 Jun 2008 04:05 PM PST

At the London Calling music conference on Thursday, there was little doubt among the panel assembled to discuss the value of music on mobiles that cell phones would one day…

France Creates €15 Million Body To Enforce ‘Three-Strikes’ Music Policy - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 05:22 PM PST

That’s it. France will officially endorsed its three-strikes-and-your-out music piracy proposal and will introduce the measure in January. The measure, by which ISPs will agree to send three notices to…

@ London Calling: Revenues From Ad-Supported Online Music: “A Drop In the Bucket” - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 19 Jun 2008 02:51 PM PST

Anyone relying solely on ad-funded business models to shore up the rapidly falling revenues in the music business might want to have a rethink. In a discussion at the London…

@ London Calling: Video Interview: Feargal Sharkey Demands ‘iPod Tax’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 11:48 AM PST

Former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey, of Teenage Kicks fame, used the London Calling music conference to demand a levy on gadgets that allow music to be copied. Appointed CEO of…

Music Retailer 7Digital Coming To America - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 19 Jun 2008 04:45 AM PST

London-based online music retailer 7Digital will open to US customers in July. The company, which powers white-label music downloads for the likes of Sun Online, ITV.com and Last.fm as well…

Last.fm Finally Gets Major-Label Buy-In For Music Vids, UMG Signs On - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 17 Jun 2008 02:44 AM PST

Thirteen months after it announced its intention to create an MTV-beating service to offer the “long tail” of music videos, Last.fm has struck its first major-label partnership for the project.…

Almost Everyone Copies Music, Most Money Now In Concerts: Research - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 16 Jun 2008 03:36 AM PST

Research by the University of Hertfordshire for industry body British Music Rights confirms what we suspected and paints a dire picture for those still trying to make money out of…

BMG Could Retain Some Euro Assets in SonyBMG Sale; Could Sell For Around $1 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 08:16 PM PST

In the permutations being worked out for the sale of BMG part of music label SonyBMG, Bertelsmann is looking to retain a stake in the European part of the business,…

UPDATED: Orange Does ‘Unlimited’ Subscription Music, NOT DRM-Free - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 12 Jun 2008 03:10 AM PST

Update: I eventually got hold of Orange in France, who told me they had incorrectly translated their press release to English, overstating the DRM-free features. Though the release states tracks…