New York - Major record label Sony Music (NYSE: SNE) has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that the company violated online privacy rules when it improperly accepted registrations on websites from children under 13 without parental consent. The FTC alleged in a lawsuit, filed via the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, that Sony collected personal information from at least 30,000 underage children on 196 of its websites, in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).