-- Johnston: Scotsman publisher Johnston Press is the latest to start selling overseas ads on its UK news sites. Mail Online, Guardian.co.uk, Times Online and Telegraph.co.uk are all chasing ads…

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-- ITV.com: ITV (LSE: ITV) already has a long tail of sorts on television - it’s called ITV3. But producers had withheld shows like Dempsey & Makepeace and On The…

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Italian law enforcers have shut the country’s largest BitTorrent tracker, responsible for sharing files to more than 400,000 registered users. It’s another action coordinated by the International Federation for the…

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SonyBMG swung to a big $49 million (£24 million) loss for the three months to June’s end, thanks to ”continued decline in the physical music market worldwide not being fully…

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-- BBC: Beeb developers have unveiled a better way to discover music being played across the broadcaster’s outlets. The /Music section has added persistent artist profile pages that show which…

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Mobile news from our sister site mocoNews.net: -- Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) Mobile: UK publisher Trinity Mirror is developing mobile sites for 2 national newspapers and 12 regional ones, teaming…

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ISPs’ pledge to send letters to subscribers who illegally download music is unworkable and won’t stop the practice, according to the body which lobbies for UK consumer rights. The top…

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Sky and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) have duked it out over broadband access, now it’s down to the value-add. With yesterday’s announcement it is planning a monthly music subscription service,…

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-- SonyBMG: Another SonyBMG senior digital appointment, and another from the mobile space, right on the heels of ex-Vodafoner Graeme Ferguson’s addition as UK digital SVP - former Fox Mobile…

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Pretty soon, everybody will be offering a subscription music service. Latest is BSkyB; it’s secured Universal’s Total Music repertoire (which includes Amy Winehouse) for a new launch that will allow…

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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…

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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:…

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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…

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-- 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…

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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…

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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…

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-- 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…

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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.…

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“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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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