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Online Music Industry to Develop EU-Wide Licensing Scheme

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 21, 2009 - 9:22am.
Brussels - The EU's Competition Commissioner, Neelie Kroes, on Wednesday announced a partnership between European royalty collection societies, major labels and online music retailers including Apple (NASD: AAPL) and Amazon (NASD: AMZN), to develop an EU-wide licensing scheme for music. Currently, rights for music and other copyrighted works must be negotiated separately for each individual country, with that particular country's collection society.

French Music Industry Groups Sue Soulseek P2P Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 21, 2008 - 12:05pm.

Paris - Two French music industry groups have filed a copyright infringement claim against Soulseek, a file-sharing network focused on electronic music, TorrentFreak reported.

tags: Law | Lawsuits | P2P | Music | Copyright | SACEM | Soulseek | SCPP |

French Free Streaming Site BlogMusik Returns as Legal Service Deezer

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 22, 2007 - 1:53pm.

Paris - BlogMusik, a French site that let users stream MP3 files available on the Web for free, and was subsequently shut down in February at the hands of copyright society SACEM, has re-launched as a copyright-compliant site called Deezer. While Deezer has secured agreements with SACEM, the company said it is still in talks with major music labels and the Society for the Management of Independent Producers' Rights (SPPF). Deezer said it already has hundreds of thousands of users, and has developed its browser-based service in 16 languages.