Poor YouTube. Everyone’s trying to cash in on your idea and they don’t even have the decency to keep you in the loop.
First it was Vevo, now the video sharing site might be getting some hardy competition from Hulu, who is in talks right now with major record labels to host music videos.
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Pink Floyd is taking their long term record label, EMI to court; suing the label for allegedly miscalculating royalty payments on their back catalog.
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Beatles fans, hold on to your pants — you were already looking forward to 09.09.09 for the release of The Beatles’ Rock Band game, but now the day promises to be even more epic with the release of the entire Fab Four catalog, digitally remastered for the very first time.
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Completely free, legal, high-quality downloads. It’s a pipe dream for American music fans. And until this week, it was for the rest of the world, too. Google, Inc., launched free downloads of licensed songs in China Monday, sharing their ad revenue with the labels and giving users access to the catalogs of Sony, Warner, EMI and Universal.
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A while back, we told you about a plan from some of the major labels to launch a Hulu-like music video web site as an alternative to the unthinkable pennance they were apparently earning for letting their artists’ videos air on YouTube. Now, as some of the majors renegotiate liscensing deals with YouTube (and others just flip out), Universal has partnered with the Google-owned operation to create its own UMG-artists-only online home for music videos.
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