Free-music subsidized via tour income - widely utilized as an excuse in the justification of music piracy - has always been a long shot, unc...

From Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times For 60 years, the Music Performance Fund, an unsung charity financed by a small fraction of record compan...

From Patrick Frater, Variety: U2 manager Paul McGuinness launched a blistering attack on the world's Internet providers Wednesday, accus...

From Peter Kafka, Silicon Alley Insider: Warner Music Group (WMG) has pulled its catalog out of Last.fm 's "on demand" free st...

From Dow Jones: Chinese and international record companies called Tuesday for an advertiser boycott of Baidu.com Inc., the country's lea...

From AP: Recording industry spent $1.5 million in first quarter to lobby on piracy, Internet broadcasts The Recording Industry Association ...

From Register.co.uk: "I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation," Thom Yorke said of the band's decision las...

Created by ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers We have the right to be compensated for the use of our creative ...

From Guardian: In 2007, there was an increase in the volume of music acquired for nothing and a sharp decline in the amount paid for, accord...

If the reasonable logic that follows is accurate, then nothing short of an ISP filtering mandate will save music. From Chuck Klosterman, Esq...

From Music Technology Policy: Capitulating to the wisdom of mobs: I view the ACS (alternative compensation scheme), voluntary or involuntar...

Cayocosta Piracy bad, file-sharing okay. The industry's fight against piracy just got harder now that EMI is on record stating that it a...

From Lars Brandle, Billboard: Global spirits giant Bacardi has developed a serious thirst for music, via a 360-degree-style deal with Britis...

Don't buy the hype. From Wikipedia: New Economy was a term coined in late 1990s by pundits to describe what some thought was an evolutio...