Yahoo! News: Digital MusicDigital MusiciTunes Store Dominates Music, and Movies May Be Next (NewsFactor)- June 20, 2008 NewsFactor - On Thursday, Apple passed yet another significant milestone at its iTunes Store. The company announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than five billion songs. Movies could be the next digital medium to realize those numbers.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080620/bs_... Poison sues label over royalties (AP)- June 20, 2008 AP - Members of Poison say their record label has consistently underpaid them royalties throughout their career, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080620/ap_... Downloads From Apple's iTunes Store Top Five Billion (NewsFactor)- June 19, 2008 NewsFactor - Apple reported Thursday that more than five billion songs have been downloaded from its online iTunes Store.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080619/bs_... Apple iTunes Music Sales Top 5 Billion Songs (TechWeb)- June 19, 2008 TechWeb - InformationWeek - The digital media service also announced that visitors are renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies each day from iTunes.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080620/tc... France clamps down on Internet piracy (AFP)- June 18, 2008 AFP - France moved Wednesday to clamp down on Internet piracy with a bill that would set up a new agency to track down cybersurfers who illegally download music, videos and movies from the web.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080618/tc... Independent producers appeal vs Sony-BMG approval (Reuters)- June 16, 2008 Reuters - An independent group of music producers asked a European Union court on Monday to throw out -- for a second time -- approval by Brussels competition regulators of a major recorded-music venture by Sony and BMG.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/med... Impala appeals against Sony BMG music deal (AP)- June 16, 2008 AP - Independent music group Impala said Monday it has appealed the decision by European Union regulators to approve the combination of the music units of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_... Digital challengers to MP3 format face high hurdles (Reuters)- June 15, 2008 Reuters - Much like the Dvorak keyboard, new digital music formats pose a challenge even as they offer solutions.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080615/wr_... Innovative Germans let others make the profits (AFP)- June 15, 2008 AFP - Germans are innovative European champions but although they created the MP3 audio encoding format and the fax, it is often foreign groups that have profited from their development.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080615/bs... Just a Minute With: Peter Gabriel (Reuters)- June 13, 2008 Reuters - Grammy-winning musician Peter Gabriel believes the Internet has drowned users with too much choice, failed to democratize the pop industry as much as was hoped and eroded the quality of what people listen to.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalmusic/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080613/mus... |