Agreement is a first step for licensing online music

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Large record companies have negotiated with composers and music publishing companies for licensed rights for new online music services. Initially, record companies will pay $1 million to publishers and composers as a licensing fee. The successful mediation is partially a result of the growth of piracy in the industry. Record companies are planning services via Pressplay and MusicNet and Napster hopes to return. An upcoming report from Jupiter Media Metrix will note that the popularity of free online music has grown 492% in 5 months.

On-Line Information Services, Videotex & Teletext, Telegraph & other communications, Strategic alliances, Consumer Audio Recordings, Integrated Record Production/Distribution, Prerecorded records and tapes, Internet, Online services, Internet services, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Internet/Web technology application, Technology application, Copyright, Copyrights, Licensing agreements, Sound recording industry, Recording industry, Sound recordings, Composers, Online music, Music publishers, Music publishing

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Apple introduces what it calls an easier to use portable music player

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Apple Computer's $399 portable music machine, iPod will be available to Apple computer owners Nov. 10. At 4" x 2.5" and about three-quarters of an inch thick the iPod can stash 1,000 songs via it's 5-gigabyte hard drive. With Apple's Firewall, one can transfer a song from a computer in a second. The device can run about 10 hours from a rechargeable lithium battery. At the moment, only the 7 million or so Apple-users can operate the iPod. Windows-computer users may get a shot at the gadget if Apple so deems.

Electronic computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Analog & Hybrid Computers, Household audio and video equipment, Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing, Product introduction, Consumer Audio Equipment, Management, Computer industry, Computer hardware, Microcomputers, Consumer electronics, Audio equipment industry, Hardware product introduction, Audio equipment, Jobs, Steven, Apple iPod (MP3 player/device)

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Dangling Broadband From the Phone Stick

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The justice department may consider the fact that many customers are forced to purchase telephone services in order to get Internet services in deliberations on possible consolidation within the telecommunications industry.

Legal issues & crime, Acquisitions & mergers, Government regulation (cont), Government domestic functions, Marketing procedures, Government regulation, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Telephone Communication, Legal/Government Regulation, Company legal issue, Cases, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Company acquisition/merger, Marketing, AT&T Corp., T, United States. Department of Justice, AT&T Inc., Communications industry, Qwest Communications International Inc., Company marketing practices, Government communications regulation, MCI Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., VZ, Telecommunications policy, MCIP

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