digital music in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up The Round-Up would wager that, in the digital arms race which enables people to download music there would be some innovation to make it very hard for ISPs to spot exactly what was being downloaded - which rather puts everyone back at square one. [11 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment At the moment, in 22 out of 27 European member states, manufacturers are forced to pay an extra fee or copyright levy on the sale of products that might allow consumers to copy protected content such as books, music and films. [18 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile In 1996 he became group CIO at EMI, where he took the music company through the Y2K project and led early forays into the internet and digital downloads. Martin Taylor took on the group CIO role at clearing-house LCH.Clearnet at the start of last... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile Outside of work his passions include his music and Chelsea Football Club. The group also includes Northcliffe Newspapers, one of the UK's largest regional newspaper publishers and Associated Northcliffe Digital. [11 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment Business models are changing - 360-degree deals, brand tie-ups and digital delivery are shaking up the music industry. And that power has been felt most keenly in the music industry where ease of digital delivery, whether by lawful or unlawful... [22 May 2008]
Tech Futures: The talkification of the web
Comment Over the past decade, as digital music, video and films have become the province of anyone with an ISP, whole industries have been transformed with each click of the mouse. The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival... [01 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment Such negotiations have been underway between the music and film industries and individual ISPs for a few years now but the practicalities of the process are still far from formalised. Any legislation to enforce these proposals would require an... [22 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08
Round-Up A report in The Times on Tuesday suggested ISPs could be legally required to take action against file-sharers, which is hardly going to be music to the ears of ISPs. The body representing ISPs says they would prefer a voluntary agreement, but the... [15 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up Plus there was the movie rentals service in iTunes, which might do for digital movies what it did for music. And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac fans and news rooms are a-twitter with talk of the latest goodies to come off the... [18 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08
Round-Up Cue Debbie Gibson music, excessive sweating and whooping. The great man is seen interacting with fellow executives as well as celebrities from music, entertainment, movies and politics. From music to politics. [11 Jan 2008]
Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software'
Comment Apple is ahead in music devices. Bill Gates: I'd say the most important step is that you use the cloud so that if you have licensed a piece of music, if you buy a new phone, it's there. Do we have to continue to work on our advertising scale and... [08 Jan 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment A month or so later, in a move that Jobs described as the "next big step forward in the digital music revolution", EMI and Apple made a joint announcement that the label would start selling DRM-free tracks on the iTunes Store. [21 Dec 2007]
Jeff Bezos
AS Profile In May Amazon announced plans to launch an online music store featuring downloads without copyright restrictions. The songs will be taken from more than 12,000 record labels but without digital rights management software, meaning they can be played... [12 Oct 2007]
The rise and rise of the Asian tech empire
AS Analysis While Jobs took the category of digital music players and recast his company as the one that brought that platform to the masses, Iwata at Nintendo launched the Wii, bringing gaming to millions who had never before picked up an Xbox or PlayStation. [12 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.07.07
Round-Up While today's young adults embrace mobile technology, social networking and digital music, they're largely unappreciative of the concept of technology - that's the conclusion of a pair of recent surveys by Microsoft and MTV Networks anyway. [27 Jul 2007]
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