Omnifone, a UK-based mobile music company, has announced a collaboration with Musiwave, a leading provider of mobile music entertainment services, to distribute an ‚Äòall-you-can-eat‚Äô mobile music service, MusicStation, that works on all major music handsets. The service is the latest challenger into the mobile music market, which has gained new interest with the introduction of […]

The Sonny Rollins Podcast, a new monthly video series, focuses on tenor saxophone legend Sonny Rollins and his music. The series tells Sonny’s story through interviews with band members, friends, fans, family, and Sonny himself, and utilizes performances current and classic as well as backstage footage. “These podcasts are essentially an ongoing documentary film that […]

Fred Amoroso, CEO of DRM firm Macrovision, has responded to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s call to dump DRM. In his letter, Amoroso asks Jobs to let Macrovision take over responsibility for Apple’s FairPlay DRM system. Last week, Jobs posted a surprising statement on the company‚Äôs site challenging the music industry to abandon DRM (copy protection) […]

The BBC has an interesting article about attitudes to Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems in Europe music firms. According to the study by Jupiter Research, almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks. Many of those surveyed criticized current DRM systems as “not […]

The cell phone industry must improve the mobile music experience for consumers or it risks losing out to new competitors like Apple, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. warned Wednesday at the 3GSM World Congress. According to Bronfman, although there are already millions of music phones available throughout the world, only about 8.8 percent […]

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the RIAA and other music industry organizations. The study, The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis, by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman […]

The Beatles’ catalog of music will be soon be offered for download, according to Neil Aspinall, the head of Apple Corps Ltd. ‚ÄúAll 13 core albums, the ones originally released on CD in 1987, have been remastered,” Aspinall FOX News. “At some point they will all be released, probably at the same time.‚Äù But the […]

iPod Mondays are a thing of the past at Des Moines, Iowa’s The Lift bar. Apple asked The Lift’s iPod Mondays organizer Clint Curtus to stop using the name ‚ÄúiPod Monday‚Äù. For two years, Curtis has organized the weekly event, where iPod fans can get together and be share their music favorites. Curtis also created […]

While Apple is calling for an end to DRM, and some record labels are considering distributing digital music without DRM, Microsoft is introducing a new DRM technology. Microsoft PlayReady is designed to enable a broad spectrum of business models such as subscription, rental, pay-per-view, preview and super-distribution, which can be applied to many digital content […]

EMI is reported to be talking to online retailers about selling its entire digital music catalog in MP3 format without copy protection. The move would create a major split in the music industry. Earlier this week, Warner Music chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. responded to Steve Jobs’ challenge to dump DRM by telling industry analysts […]