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Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music Announces Online Music Education 2008 Commencement Ceremony

(Boston) – For the first time since the program’s inception, the Boston University College of Fine Arts will hold a separate Convocation for the School of Music’s Online Music Education Program on Saturday, May 17 at 4:00pm at the Tsai Performance Center. In just two years, Boston University School of Music’s two distance learning graduate music education programs have experienced tremendous growth. The two programs – the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Music Education and the Master of Music in Music Education – began online classes in the fall of 2005 with a total of 67 students and have experienced exponential growth with the help of Compass Knowledge Group. This semester 117 students will graduate from the Master of Music in Music Education program with about 30 attending the actual ceremony.

RIAA Outsources Fingering of Students Who Share Music Illegally

The RIAA is outsourcing the hunt for music thieves. Its largest target currently is those who operate from within colleges and universities, a move that has piqued the attention of Educause.

RIAA Wins First Federal Music Copyright Trial - Jail time, fines and restitution are expected

A young man has just been convicted of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement for his role in administering a music filesharing server. The man was a member of Apocalypse Production Crew (APC), a "release group" for pirated music. Others in the group have paid fines related to these charges but nobody else had taken the case to trial. RIAA says that this is a landmark case because it is the first federal trial for online copyright infringement in which a majority of the filesharing charges were for sharing music. And of course RIAA is pleased with the verdict which will require the man to make full restitution to the record labels from which he stole music. The man also faces up to five years in prison and a quarter million dollar fine.

EMI Music Enters Into New Agreement With Qtrax for Ad-Supported Digital Music Service

NEW YORK, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- EMI Music, one of the world's leading music companies, has entered into an agreement with ad-supported digital music service Qtrax to make EMI's catalog of digital music available to music fans in the US and Canada.

Music industry's war on piracy

Music traders in Australia are angry about the illegal downloading of music over the internet. This is cutting the profits of the music trade across the globe, and it is the same in Australia. Stephen Peach, of the Australian Music Industry group, is one of those deeply concerned about illegal downloading. He wants to see new measures to combat illegal downloading. Peach argues that ISPs should supply information about illegal downloading of music to officials. Legal digital downloading of music is becoming a global growth industry

Aeroplan Music Store First in Canada to Announce All MP3 Format

Members can redeem miles for music to play on any device, at any time MONTREAL (CNW) - Aeroplan today announced plans to convert all audio tracks at the Aeroplan Music Store into high quality MP3s. For the first time on any commercial music download site in Canada, content from all four major record labels: EMI, Sony BMG Music (Canada), Universal and Warner Music Canada, will be available in a DRM-Free (Digital Rights Management) form. The removal of the DRM is a major milestone in the world of downloading because it frees users from access control and licenses placed upon their music. This means Aeroplan Members will be able to play their favourite songs on any device, at any time.

RIAA doubles settlement cost for students fighting subpoenas

Challenging RIAA subpoenas can be costly, and not just because college kids have to dig deep into the sock drawer to pay lawyers of their own. Ars has learned that the RIAA's legal campaign against students is now built on escalating penalties; if you force the RIAA legal team into action, then end up settling, you could end up paying more than that initial $3,000. A lot more.

Music Online Audioconference - Legal Scholar Questions Measures to "Streamline" Music Licensing

With new distribution channels for music come repeated calls for changes in the legal structure of intellectual property (IP) rights that apply to music. University of California, Berkeley Law Professor Robert P. Merges will present a paper on The Continuing Vitality of Music Performance Rights Organizations. He warns that proposals to change the existing music IP rights system could stunt creativity in the United States. and around the world. Merges warns that the more radical proposals would eviscerate or eliminate performing rights organizations, which could weaken all of the gains songwriters have made over the past century.

Online music pioneer Napster launches restriction-free music store

San Francisco - Napster, the online music site that first popularized free music over the net, launched on Tuesday what it called the world's largest online music store without digital rights management. But fans of original Napster may be disappointed. Though the music available will play on any MP-compatible device, it also costs 99 cents a track.

Apple Needs More Mobile Music; UMG Demanding Nokia-style Comes With Music Deal?

Have the music labels found a way to get Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to cave on some of their age-old requests as well as an interesting new one? The NYT’s Saul Hansell reports the Cupertino-based company is deep in “active� negotiations with major music labels to increase the range and inventory of music content available on the iPhone. Specifically, Apple wants to increase its ringtone inventory and to start selling ringback tones. It’s also hoping to hammer out an agreement on whether it can sell songs directly from the iTunes store to iPhones, via the operator’s network. But the music labels have their own list of requests, and are seeing this as their best opportunity to get Apple to relent on some of their eternal demands.

IODA Signs Demon Music Group for Worldwide Digital Music Distribution

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/19/08 -- IODA, the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry, today announced a ground breaking, exclusive partnership with catalog music specialist Demon Music Group for the U.S. and Canada. This deal expands IODA's catalog of more than one million tracks with some of popular music's most famous heritage artists including Ian Gillan, Don McLean, Ian Dury, Frankie Ford and Andy Williams. The announcement was made today at the London Calling conference in London, UK.

Another nail in the DRM coffin: Rhapsody launches DRM-free MP3 store

This week, online music retailer Rhapsody has launched a new DRM-free music store in the US, allowing users to download unprotected 256kbps MP3 files for $0.99 per track (or $9.99 per album). While Rhapsody is just the latest in a string of online music stores to offer DRM-free music (including Amazon's MP3 store and Apple's iTunes Plus), it bangs another nail in the coffin of DRM in the online music business. We think the move away from DRM will benefit consumers, device vendors and online music retailers, by removing one of the biggest barriers to consumer acceptance of digital music sales.

RIAA Clings to DRM and the Past: It's Time to Look Forward

riaa-logo-big.jpgJust when you thought the music business was entering a reasonable truce with the DRM-hating public the Recording Industry Association of America wants to promote the controversial technology. David Hughes, who is in charge of the technology unit for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), told the Digital Hollywood Conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, that DRM will still be a necessary component in the music business as music subscription services continue to require it.

Specialty Retail Chain Hot Topic to Launch MP3 Store

New York - Pop culture-inspired fashion retail store chain Hot Topic plans next month to launch its own digital music store, ShockHound, which will sell music from at least three of the four major labels in MP3 format, The New York Times reported on Monday. "For us, music merchandise is where the profit is," Hot Topic president Jerry Cook told The Times. "The reason we carry CDs in the stores is that to be in a music-centered business and not have music would be a contradiction. And you can't be an online music store and not have MP3s." In addition to MP3s from a wide range of artists, the ShockHound store also expects to sell t-shirts from more than 1,000 bands, as well as music on vinyl.

GameStop profit more than doubles

said its first-quarter profit more than doubled as sales increased sharply. The company also raised its fiscal 2008 earnings forecast to a range of $2.30 to $2.39 a share. GameStop said its earnings in the latest three months were $62.1 million, or 37 cents a share, compared with a profit of $24.7 million, or 15 cents a share. The figure in the latest quarter includes debt extinguishment expense of 1 cent a share. Sales climbed 42% to $1.81 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet Research expected a profit of 34 cents a share on sales of $1.72 billion. In the second quarter, GameStop expects to earn 26 to 28 cents a share, ahead of the average analyst estimate of 24 cents a share. End of Story

Nokia Launches New Digital Music Store in Sweden

announced today that the Nokia Music Store in Sweden has gone live. With millions of tracks from major artists, independent labels, and up-and-coming Swedish acts, the Nokia Music Store let's people enjoy music directly on their Nokia device or personal computer. The Nokia Music Store, with its compelling combination of download and streaming services, empowers you to connect to music you want, in the way you want.

SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11SpiralFrog homepage: service offers free and legal music and music videos for download.

NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- SpiralFrog(TM) (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, is adding an automatic update function in its download manager that will give hundreds of thousands of music-hungry fans faster and easier

SpiralFrog Makes Downloading Music Easier with Automatic Upgrade to Windows Media Player 11SpiralFrog homepage: service offers free and legal music and music videos for download.

NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- SpiralFrog(TM) (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, is adding an automatic update function in its download manager that will give hundreds of thousands of music-hungry fans faster and easier

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Judge upholds $107,834 in attorneys' fees award against RIAA

One of the most closely-watched file-sharing cases is a step closer to an end. A federal judge has awarded exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen $107,834 in attorneys' fees, a figure that isn't exactly what either party wanted. Andersen, a single mother in Oregon, was accused by the RIAA in 2005 of sharing music over KaZaA. Andersen denied the charges, filed a countersuit, and the RIAA finally dismissed the lawsuit last summer. Once the RIAA dismissed the case, she sought and won an attorneys' fees award as the prevailing party.

Music Copyright signs music publishing administration deal with Edition Roland

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Music Copyright Solutions Plc. said it signed an exclusive music publishing administration deal to collect the royalties for Munich-based music publisher, Edition Roland in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan among other Southeast Asian territories.

RIAA Drops Case That Hinges On 'Making Available' Issue - Is RIAA giving up on these cases or just trying to avoid precedent-setting loss?

In the lawsuits that RIAA has filed against P2P users in the past, one of the major questions that has come up has been whether or not it’s illegal to simply make copyrighted files available for others to download. The argument of users is that there has to actually be something stolen, some proof that the file was downloaded, or there was no violation but RIAA has said that the violation takes place when the file is made available online. A New York court recently agreed with users on this issue which has caused other cases to go back to the courts for further review. Perhaps RIAA plans to stop fighting this particularly battle considering that they just voluntarily dismissed a case that had been pending for nearly a year in which the major issue was the “making available” point.

EU music composer urge EU not to make sales of online music rights EU-wide

European music composers, led by Bee Gee Robin Gibb, claimed Thursday that selling online music rights EU-wide would harm authors and music making.

EU music composer urge EU not to make sales of online music rights EU-wide

European music composers, led by Bee Gee Robin Gibb, claimed Thursday that selling online music rights EU-wide would harm authors and music making.

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