STIM

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.

Pirate Bay Buyers in License Talks With Swedish Rights Society

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 18, 2009 - 11:04am.

Stockholm, Sweden - Global Gaming Factory (GGF), the Swedish firm in the process of acquiring file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay and turning it into a legal, paid site, has announced licensing talks with the Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM), TorrentFreak reported.