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InternetNews May 25, 2005 Tim Gray	Report: AOL Close to Video Deal The company looks to cash in on music video sales with Sony BMG partnership, according to a published report.
InternetNews January 11, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie?
InternetNews July 2, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Universal, Apple Set To Play Chicken The Universal Music Group, the largest of the four major record labels and a subsidiary of Vivendi SA, is reportedly trying to change the terms of its contract with Apple for selling digital music through the iTunes store.
InternetNews December 3, 2007	Pressure Mounts on Record Labels to Offer MP3s New promotions, successful tests and retailer demands could spell the end of DRM-protected music.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Alyce Lomax	DRM May Die? Yahoo! Will online music's digital rights management go the way of the dodo?
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InternetNews August 10, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Best Buy, Universal Join DRM-Free Jam Universal Music Group will make some of its music available without digital rights management software.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Digital Music's Double Trouble The major labels' resistance to innovation, penny-pinching ways, and frequent complaints about piracy and the flagging popularity of CDs leave them ripe for disruption. Digital distribution should be only too happy to oblige.
Home Theater August 8, 2008	Universal Tries Exotic Downloads Critics of the music industry often say we wish the major labels would quit bellyaching, forget the lawsuits, and just offer a better legal-download product. That's the best way to fight illegal downloads, and that's what the Universal Music Group is doing with its new Lost Tunes download service.
Home Theater March 6, 2008	Musicians Demand Copyright Cash Little of the millions of dollars in settlements major record labels have collected in copyright-infringement suits has been shared with recording artists.
Home Theater August 16, 2007	DRM Kills Google Video Downloads In what surely must be the worst-case scenario for digital rights management, Google has informed purchasers of its video downloads that they will no longer play.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Warner's Digital Groove Digital gains help soften the weakness at Warner Music Group. Investors, take note.
Home Theater December 10, 2007	DG Loses the DRM Deutsche Grammophon, the historic classical label owned by the Universal Music Group, has become the largest one of its kind to stop using digital rights management for online music sales.
The Motley Fool November 4, 2005 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Universal Display Profits remain pretty far off in the company's future. But analysts predict that Universal Display's revenues will double between 2005 and 2006, bringing the company closer to giving its investors their ultimate reward.
Home Theater June 9, 2008	Major Label Expands to Survive The Universal Music Group will now manage classical artists and book concerts, moving into territory previously off-limits to most record labels.
InternetNews December 4, 2007	Universal to Offer Free Music With Nokia Phones The world's largest music group Universal and the world's top mobile phone vendor Nokia said on Tuesday they would offer free, 12-month access to Universal's music for buyers of Nokia music phones, starting from the second half of 2008.
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Salon.com November 2, 2000 Eric Boehlert	In defense of (Napster) collusion Music consumers will benefit if Bertelsmann can convince the major record labels to conspire.
InternetNews January 15, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Amazon, Pepsi Team For Super Bowl MP3 Giveaway Pepsi-Cola and Amazon have teamed up in a promotion to give away as many as 1 billion songs from Amazon MP3.
Wired September 2006 Sonia Zjawinski	Alt.iTunes The new iTunes: eMusic.
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Grover & Burrows	Universal Music Takes on iTunes Universal chief Doug Morris is enlisting other big music players for a service to challenge the Jobs juggernaut.
The Motley Fool July 5, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Universal Music's Bright Idea Can the music industry save the CD format? There's clearly no excuse for the industry to suppose that the old way is the right way any longer.
Wired November 27, 2007 Seth Mnookin	Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away. After years of tightening controls on his company's content, Universal Music Group's CEO has become entangled in digital strategies whether he wants to be or not and is planning to unify Apple's competitors in what amounts to a coordinated attack on the iPod.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Throw This Stock Away Warner Music Group is part of an archaic industry that has been suffering in recent years. Is it time to get rid of this stock?
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Reason December 2003 Nick Gillespie	Music Meltdown Ever since Napster mainstreamed unauthorized sharing of copyrighted materials, record labels have been singing the blues -- and for obvious reasons. But a good chunk of the decline stems from the music biz's own actions. It has steadfastly raised prices on CDs while releasing less new music.
InternetNews March 5, 2008	Facebook in Talks With Major Music Labels: Report Social networking site Facebook has approached major music labels about launching a music service.
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Salon.com September 6, 2000 Eric Boehlert	Technical foul MP3.com goes to court with a tricky defense, alleging that Universal doesn't own the music it markets.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	MySpace Faces the Music Warner Music Group and Sony BMG are close to signing a deal that will create new revenue channels in ad-supported music and music videos, pay-per-downloads, and mobile phone delivery. EMI and Universal are likely to follow suit with MySpace.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2010 Jordan DiPietro	Death by a Thousand Cuts The music industry is slowly dying. More and more people are using streaming sites like Pandora, which means there will be fewer digital downloads.
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Home Theater January 14, 2010 Mark Fleischmann	Music Price-Fixing Suit Proceeds Off again, on again case alleges major labels conspired on downloads.
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InternetNews December 27, 2007	Amazon Adds Warner Music to MP3 Downloads Amazon.com has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple's industry-dominating iTunes online store.
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