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February 26, 2006
TouchTunes jukeboxes downloaded and played one billion songs
AXcessNews.com - Digital Music Sales Triple to $1.1 Billion in 2005
(AXcess News) Reno, NV - Yesterday, AXcess News reported that Apple Computer Co. (Nasdaq: AAPL) iTunes online music store passed the 1 billion download mark. Today we learned that iTunes isn't alone in that distinction when Lake Zurich, Illinois-based digital-downloading jukebox pioneer TouchTunes Music Corporation has announced that its jukeboxes have downloaded and played more than one billion songs since the first units went online in 1998.
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Licensing Long Form Music Videos
Digital Music News: Insider Blogs
Since MTV style short-form music videos are now widely available on multiple platforms, digital and mobile providers perceive concert footage as a key to setting their services apart.
If a concert or music-based documentary producer is producing for a network, PBS, or a cable service, they should also be thinking of digital platforms as secondary windows in addition, or instead, of DVD. Furthermore, revenue streams from concert footage can be multiplied across multiple platforms. For instance, Network Live is an online venture consisting of AOL Music, the promoter AEG Live and XM Satellite Radio. Led by CEO Kevin Wall, executive producer of the Live 8 concerts, Network Live produces live programming from various AEG-owned venues and provides the footage to its partners AOL Music and XM Satellite Radio.
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February 24, 2006
RightsLine
Rights & Licensing Management
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February 17, 2006
Sun Article on OCAP, etc.
Tuned-In: Network-based TV Services
Tuned-In: Network-based TV Services
For years, Sun Labs quietly nurtured the key technologies for a new era of network-based TV services. Today, Sun finds itself at the center of an exploding global market.
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Clear Channel Just says Yes!
EFF says Clear Channel patent doesn't sound right
Clear Channel claims that it and only it has the right to burn CDs of a
just-completed live concert. That can't be true... can it?
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RIAA Just says no!
RIAA et al. says CD ripping, backups not fair use
The RIAA and other industry representatives have argued that making backups of CDs and DVDs is not fair use, and that even ripping CDs is infringement.
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XM changes
Director at XM Resigns as Costs Skyrocket
XM Satellite Radio posted losses it blamed on extra spending to lure subscribers in response to Sirius Satellite Radio signing Howard Stern.
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February 08, 2006
Industry News
Vonage Files for IPO, Names CEO
Vonage filed for an IPO that seeks to raise up to $250 million for the fast-growing, but unprofitable Internet phone provider. It also named Mike Snyder, formerly president of ADT, as its new CEO. (Read the filing)
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Media Audio Books
Downloading audio books from the Internet.
Our guest today is Jeff Dittus who is the CEO of MediaBay. Jeff's company sells audio books and classic radio programs as digital download over the Internet.
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February 06, 2006
Blog for Media, Wireless and New Technologies in the Communications Industry
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TESTING
Just a trial...
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