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Apple slapped with copyright suit - report
News Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated sued Apple in 2004 over the rapper's song 'Lose Yourself', which Apple used in a TV commercial. Apple pays a portion of the revenue it collects from Eminem... [01 Aug 2007]
iTunes' three-billion song chorus
News Back in February 2006 iTunes passed the one billion song downloads milestone. iTunes has racked up its three billionth song download, Apple has revealed. Last month, fears arose after... [31 Jul 2007]
Amazon to open DRM-less digital song store
News Apple is expected to offer the label's DRM-free music beginning this month at $1.29 per song, versus DRM-protected music for 99 cents per song. offered a single song without DRM from... [16 May 2007]
Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes
News Industry watchers had speculated such openness could eventually hurt sales of iPods by giving consumers the ability to choose any MP3 player and have it work with the iTunes Store, which is currently the world's biggest online... [02 Apr 2007]
Microsoft to issue fix for Zune glitch
News He said Microsoft did see its base of subscription customers grow by 60 per cent in January over the prior month and individual song downloads increased 65 per cent in the same period. Microsoft is... [01 Mar 2007]
Mobile music to strike a rich note
News The recently announced Apple iPhone and Microsoft's Zune MP3 player - both of which allow consumers to purchase music at the companies' song shops - will compete with mobile operators' content offerings and force mobile... [23 Jan 2007]
Apple reveals new front in iTunes battle
News Apple is engaged in an ongoing legal battle with the French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, which accuses the company of "deceit" over its interoperability with rival online song shops. Apple also fell foul of Nordic... [03 Jan 2007]
Apple denies iTunes sales slump
News Apple racked up more than one billion song downloads earlier in the year from its 21 iTunes music stores across the globe. Apples has rejected claims that sales of content through its iTunes store have... [13 Dec 2006]
Mobile music to be beat online by 2010
News While prices for wireless over-the-air downloads typically cost up to three times more than those bought over fixed lines, IDC predicts pricing for single track downloads bought on mobiles will settle at... [16 Jun 2006]
Jobs set to win iTunes pricing battle
News According to a report in the New York Post, the big four record labels had been pushing Apple to agree to introduce variable pricing instead of the 99 cents per song model the online song shop now uses. [21 Apr 2006]
Mobile music worth third of $1.1bn digital tunes
News While some in the music industry attribute this drop in piracy to a series of lawsuits, other industry watchers believe it's simply a reflection of the increasing availability and comparatively low prices of music at the online... [20 Jan 2006]
Illegal file-sharing three times as popular as iTunes
News A report from analyst house JupiterResearch discovered that consumers are three times more likely to get their digital music from illegal file-sharing networks than pay to download the tracks from online song shops such... [29 Nov 2005]
iTunes storms into top 10 music sales chart
News For its comparison, the company compared 12 separate song downloads at iTunes to a single album purchase at an ordinary retail store. The research company tracks downloads from digital... [22 Nov 2005]
Digital sales not saving faltering music industry
News The Music Managers Forum has been protesting this week that the sales from online song shops with £0.79 pricing, including iTunes, aren't providing artists with a fair share of revenues. The organisation claims... [04 Oct 2005]
Apple, Microsoft, Napster slammed over DRM
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put the issue of DRM (digital rights management) in online music under the microscope - and has found the key digital song shops seriously wanting. Apple has used DRM in this... [02 Sep 2005]
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