Posted Wed 11 Mar 2009 11:31AM GMT
Executives from both YouTube and publishing royalty society PRS For
Music met in London yesterday to discuss the former's decision to block
access to music videos in the UK in protest at the latter's demands
regarding future royalty payments. ... 
So, how do people working in music know who's signing who, what those pesky record labels are up to, what the latest download whatnot is, who is moving and shaking, who is spending and saving, who is planning and scheming, or, for that matter, what Pete and Amy and Britney are up to? Simple, they read CMU Daily, the UK music business' biggest and most popular daily news bulletin. Now you to can get the lowdown from Team CMU, here on the CMU-Blog. You'll find even more at www.thecmuwebsite.com
Posted Tue 10 Mar 2009 11:22AM GMT
So then, this is a big story, isn't it? YouTube yesterday announced it would be pulling all "premium music videos", which I think basically means any music video you'd want to watch, from its UK platform because of a dispute with the publishing Posted Tue 10 Mar 2009 11:10AM GMT
MusicTank will today publish a new report called ‘Let's Sell Recorded Music', which follows up those previously reported Think Tank debates held under than banner last Autumn. The debates, involving representatives from the music industry, internet Posted Tue 10 Mar 2009 11:07AM GMT
Amy Winehouse will not perform at this year's Coachella Festival as planned, according to her spokesman, Chris Goodman, who has confirmed that "legal issues" are at the root of the problem. The singer was charged with assault last week, which ha Posted Tue 10 Mar 2009 11:06AM GMT
Having confirmed last week that his client will testify if asked to do so in the case against her girlfriend-beating boyfriend Chris Brown (mainly because she has to by law), Rihanna's lawyer Donald Etra has been talking some more to MTV News. He say Posted Mon 9 Mar 2009 11:16AM GMT
Dutch live music streaming service Fabchannel.com, which streamed concerts recorded at a venue in Amsterdam as well as LA's Roxy Theatre, has closed down. The people behind the nine year old service say that they reckon continued economic hardships i Posted Mon 9 Mar 2009 11:14AM GMT
Given reports last week, ahead of Michael Jackson's shambolic appearance at The O2, that Jacko and promoters AEG planned to do as many Jacko shows at the Dome later this year as ticket sales demanded, it should be no surprise there are rumours Jacko Posted Mon 9 Mar 2009 11:12AM GMT
Ticketmaster's promotion of its US-based secondary ticketing website TicketsNow will again go under the regulatory spotlight following the news the Canadian government has formally asked its Competition Bureau to investigate. ... Posted Mon 9 Mar 2009 11:10AM GMT
So court papers made available last week give us a little more insight, at last, as to what actually happened between Chris Brown and Rihanna after that pre-Grammy party last month. Brown, as previously reported, was in court on Thursday to be formal Posted Fri 6 Mar 2009 11:26AM GMT
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