Posted Tue 14 Apr 2009 12:07PM BST
The music industry really must try and ensure
that key votes in the French parliament that affect the protection of
its copyrights don't take place just before big holidays when most MPs
are already sunning it up on the Riviera. Just before Christ 
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 14 Apr 2009 11:55AM BST
So, in the eyes of the American judicial
system, in the early hours of February 3rd 2003 iconic music producer
Phil Spector pushed a gun inside the mouth of former b-movie actress
Lana Clarkson and shot her dead. He then walked outside his Beverly Posted Thu 9 Apr 2009 1:41PM BST
While staging the latest YouTube-diss session in London yesterday, songwriter collecting society PRS For Music let it be known that they had "agreed commercial terms" with Spotify regarding the royalty the ever popular streaming service will pay Posted Thu 9 Apr 2009 1:39PM BST
Organisers of the brilliant Glade Festival are having to seek legal advice after a group of German nudist ravers asked if they could come to this year's event and party for three days without the hassle of clothing. It seems that word has spread that Posted Thu 9 Apr 2009 1:32PM BST
From squabbles about illegal online music services, to squabbles about legal ones. PRS For Music continued its ‘YouTube are evil' campaign yesterday (that's my name for the campaign by the way, not theirs, I think they're calling it the ‘YouTu Posted Thu 9 Apr 2009 1:30PM BST
With the three-strike system for combating illegal file-sharing now almost certainly about to become law in France - only the French Constitutional Council still has to approve the provisions that sit within the proposed Creation And Internet Law - U Posted Wed 8 Apr 2009 12:48PM BST
Courtney Love is always babbling on about people stealing from her,
but it seems there's actually some truth in it. Or rather, a lot of
truth in it. It seems that all the money left to her and daughter
Frances Bean by Kurt Cobain has been siphoned Posted Wed 8 Apr 2009 12:46PM BST
Rihanna's father Ronald Fenty has commented on Chris Brown's
decision to plead not guilty to charges of assaulting and threatening
his daughter when he appeared in court on Monday.
Fenty
told US Weekly: "So what happened? Somebody else did Posted Wed 8 Apr 2009 12:44PM BST
Talking of which, Billy Bragg has been talking up the Featured
Artist Coalition's viewpoint regarding the good old copyright extension
debate. He wrote to Music Week in response to some chatter in some
parts of the record business that the recentl Posted Wed 8 Apr 2009 12:40PM BST
Big Beatles announcement people. No, not that announcement. The
Beatles catalogue will be re-released on CD to coincide with the launch
of the 'Beatles Rock Band' game in September.
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