EMI to Offer DRM-Free Songs at Digital Stores in France, Scandinavia

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 17, 2007 - 3:23pm.

London - Following the major label's announcement yesterday that it would provide DRM-free music for sale on retail giant Amazon.com's forthcoming digital music store, EMI Music said that it has additionally signed deals to provide its artists' tracks free of digital rights management to other European retailers. EMI will offer its catalog to VirginMega in France, as well as to Scandinavian services including Telenor, Musicbrigade, Inprodicon, Basepoint Media, Aspiro and Paragallo.

http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press33.htm

Published in DMW Daily, May 17, 2007

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Submitted by SarahR (not verified) on May 21, 2007 - 9:51am.

Before labels jump to remove DRM they should lower the barriers of entry for ad-supported models and see what happens to their revenues. Sure if people have to pay for music they would prefer that it be interoperable with their variety of devices. But they'd prefer not to pay for it at all. For more on cutting edge ad-supported music options see: http://ad-supported-music.blogspot.com/