paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Terra Firma may have written off 90 percent of its investment in the label after Citigroup refused to ignore about half the debt it provided for the deal, but - slowly, slowly - EMI Group is turning a corner. Full-year earnings to March 31, 2009, are up 7.4 percent to £1.563 billion ($2.58 billion)...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter issued a preliminary injunction against BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com , handing a victory to music company EMI Group, which sued Risan and his companies recently....
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Variety : Two websites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter issued a preliminary injunction against BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com at the request of music company EMI Group. The injunction prohibits the sites and their owner, Hank Risan, from streaming or selling songs by the Fab...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
New York Post A game of chicken is starting to hurt EMI ‘s ability to attract talent. Sources said that artists have become wary of signing with the music company because of the battle between private-equity firm Terra Firma and Citigroup over restructuring EMI ‘s debt….According to sources inside and outside EMI , musicians are concerned that the company doesn’t have the...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Citigroup has rejected Terra Firma Capital Partners's latest bid to restructure EMI Group, as the music company's lender and its owner haggle over how to address its debt burden.
eWeek (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Get back to where you once belonged: Judge approves a temporary restraining order for digital music site BlueBeat.com over sale of Beatles songs. - The Internet music site BlueBeat.com, which bills itself as trying to quot;stop the insanity of overpriced online music, quot; is no longer carrying the entire catalogue of songs from legendary rock band The Beatles. EMI Group, a British music company which...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It won't be long until the Beatles albums digitally belong to you. But first there is a lawsuit about it. The Wall Street Journal : The Beatles catalog finally became available for paid digital downloading, but not the way the band's record label, EMI Group Ltd., intended. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Digital Sales Don't Save Universal Music Beatles Rock Band Selling Faster Than Expected...
Voices (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Beatles catalog finally became available for paid digital downloading, but not the way the band's record label, EMI Group Ltd., intended.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Music company EMI Group said it is suing a US-based website that is selling downloads of Beatles songs.
IP Lab Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
LONDON - Music company EMI Group said it is suing a US-based website that is selling downloads of Beatles songs.EMI said it had filed a copyright infringement suit against Bluebeat.com in a US court.Bluebeat.com's site lists... (source: New Zealand Herald) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
PC World (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
EMI Group on Tuesday filed a copyright violation suit against an online music site selling MP3s of Beatles albums and individual tracks.
eCoustics.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
EMI Group on Tuesday filed a copyright violation suit against an online music site selling MP3s of Beatles albums and individual tracks.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Music News: EMI sues obscure Santa Cruz-based website -- An obscure website is brazenly offering the Beatles' music for sale digitally, much to the dismay of EMI, the group's record label.
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Two years ago, a bunch of labels affiliated to music giant EMI Group sued both MP3tunes and its infamous founder Michael Robertson - former founder and CEO of MP3.com and currently running VoIP startup Gizmo5 - over alleged copyright infringement. A year ago, a judge did the sensible thing and tossed out the part of the case that could personally bankrupt the man. Fast forward to about two weeks ago,...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc. plans to launch a service that would allow users to listen to songs for free over the internet or purchase them, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. A story on the newspaper's website said Google has struck deals with the four major record labels, including Warner Music Group Corp., EMI Group Ltd., Sony Corp.'s Sony Music Entertainment...
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