Sentences with phrase «major record labels»

For the same reasons, I don't listen to Top 40 radio stations; they're largely in cahoots with major record labels who sign acts because they'll sell — and this likely has more to do with the amount of cleavage displayed than it does with musical talent.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by major record labels to revive copyright infringement claims against video - sharing website Vimeo for hosting content that included songs by famed bands such as the Beatles, the Jackson 5, and the Beach Boys without permission.
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And if the Majors don't follow along, they may undergo the same difficulties as major record labels, or major car manufacturers.
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While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions around file - sharing.
Will 30 million users embrace a paid music service that comprises of over 100,000 songs from major record labels such as RS Music?
Apple became a major player early on, making deals with major record labels to sell digital tunes through its iTunes Store in 2003.
When I walked into church each week, I'd often hang out in the lobby while the band belted out those modern worship songs I was convinced existed mainly to fill the coffers of major record labels.
This past spring, Grooveshark shut down operations as part of a settlement in a lawsuit waged by major record labels.
Not content to just offer drivers Spotify access, Tesla is reportedly in talks with major record labels to create a new way for people to listen to music.
The major record labels don't promote talent the way they used to; they pull the plug at the slightest excuse.
We sell ring tones of our artists» music on our website and MP3 tracks on iTunes, but our primary revenue will come from securing agreements with major record labels.
The company has 60 million paying subscribers, just renegotiated long - term licensing deals with three major record labels, and is valued at about $ 15 billion.
Over time, the company managed to successfully negotiate deals with many of the major record labels — but this didn't come cheap.
Facebook (fb) is reportedly in talks with major record labels and music publishers to reach a deal that would see its billions of users allowed to include music in videos uploaded to the platform.
The downloading / sharing of music files was decimating the industry's profits, and CEOs at the major record labels had no solutions to the challenge.
Google (GOOG) secured deals with three of the four major record labels — Universal Music, Sony, and Warner Music Group.
After failed attempts at getting signed to a major record label, Jay - Z and his two business partners, Damon Dash and Kareem Burke, started their own label, Roc - A-Fella Records, in 1996.
This isn't the first time a group has petitioned for Congress to update the DMCA, but this petition happens to be right as many of the major record labels are renegotiating their deals with YouTube.
The Mr. and I met while both temping for a major record label, and our tastes range from avant guard jazz to the Grateful Dead.
Reggie and Dick attend a meeting at a major record label.
A demo deal with a major record label that «didn't quite pan out», left him to explore the only other thing he «knew he was good at».
At the beginning of the aughts, major record labels weren't behaving any differently than publishers are now.
But wait: didn't Apple more or less control the market for digital music in the early days of iTunes, and dictate prices to the major record labels in order to keep prices low?
Macklemore is the first indie group (an artist or group without the backing of a major record label) in nearly two decades to top the Billboard charts with «Thrift Shop» and «Can't Hold Us»; another hit, «Same Love» celebrates same - sex marriage, becoming a standard protest / civil rights anthem.
«We're now working with all of the major record labels globally, and all the major U.S. magazine publishers, as well as many independent labels, artists and publishers,» wrote Andy Rubin, the company's senior vice president for mobile and digital content at the official Google blog, while also mentioning its music store will be thrown open to users in Western Europe on November 13.
Ironically, this put Apple in the exact opposite position to the one it was in with the major record labels when it dominated the electronic music market with the iPod and iTunes: in that case, Apple did exactly what Amazon tried to do with books, by dictating the price that labels could charge for their songs.
During the Napster era the major record labels got on board with DRMs in a big way hoping that they could reduce piracy by locking their music files down.
He's co-operated with major record labels and designed several award - winning album covers.
This definition can be compared to «indie» music where artists produce their own content without the assistance of a major record label.
It once was, but rather than doubling down on independent creators, helping them monetize with ads and commerce and selling subscriptions to enhanced ad - free access, SoundCloud wasted years chasing the major record labels in hopes of building a Spotify competitor full of the most popular music.
As the first website to offer free, full - track streaming music from all four major record labels, Imeem has quietly been able to grow into one of the most trafficked social networking sites, with nearly 28 million (self - reported) visitors per month.
Unless you've been following the evolution of digital music for a long time, you might have seen the Mp3Tunes lawsuit as just another in a long line of attempts by the major record labels to squeeze money out of digital services, as they continue to fight the ongoing disruption of their business model.
Spotify needs all the major record labels to let it stream their content, otherwise its catalogue would be confusingly incomplete.
The deal may be months away from being finalized, but Spotify is said to have cleared this particular clause with major record labels.
A new Music Use Policy has been added as Facebook strikes deals with the major record labels.
YouTube has already signed on the Warner Music Group, one of the world's three major record labels to support the platform.
Before Spotify launched in the U.S., the company made deals with major record labels to obtain the appropriate rights to the sound recording copyrights in the songs, the lawsuit states.
We're now working with all of the major record labels globally, and all the major U.S. magazine publishers, as well as many independent labels, artists and publishers.
Ongoing negotiations with major record labels are of course the number one obstacle in Google Remix's race to digital store shelves, as Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group continue to hold out after more than a year of reported talks and Warner Music's agreement to come on board the project.
According to the insiders, the new offer comes as Spotify finally inks deals with the three major record labels to offer a free package.
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