Universal Music Test DRM-Free Music With Subsidiary

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Universal Music is going to test out the concept of DRM-free music, but not with their big gun artists… yet. Now available through the DG Web Shop, Universal is using their classical music division Deutsche Grammophon to test out how sales of a DRM-free music will work out for them. ...

IMDb Launching a Database and Social Network for Music?

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has filed a trademark application for the term “SoundUnwound.” According to the filing, the trademark would cover: “Providing information regarding, and in the nature of, social networking services; online social networking services designed for people with a common desire to meet other people with similar ...

Warner Music Group: Going the Way of the Dodo

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

While piracy groups have been recently taking repeated kicks to the keister, it also seems that the major record labels are also finally learning first hand that they may have missed the boat on this whole “series of tubes” thing. Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr. led the earnings call ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Music

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

It has been a big year for music sites. Among the highlights, CBS purchased Last.fm for $280 million, iLike came out of nowhere with a strong Facebook application to become a multi-million user site, and imeem signed deals with most of the major labels to stream music for free. ...

Would You Watch Commercials Like Music Videos?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

We’ve all had that moment when we thought that new Snickers commercial with the Viking and the Pilgrim was so funny that we wished someone had been there to see it with us. We might spend all of 85 seconds searching YouTube for a pirated (or even promotional) ...

Best of Mashable: Music

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

In the immortal words of Madonna, “Music makes the people come together(yeah)”, and that’s especially true on the Internet. Social networks, Internet radio stations, music finding services: music seems to permeate every corner of the net. Below is a sample of the numerous posts we’ve done about music ...

Sony BMG And Yahoo Sign Music and Video Deal

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

If there’s one thing that YouTube taught us, it’s the fact that you can get sued no matter how big you are. Yahoo has learned its history lesson and now they’ve signed a licensing deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment which lets their users upload Sony’s video and music content ...

MySpace and Textango Giving Away Free Music

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

A little known company called Textango has partnered up with MySpace for a promotion similar to what we’ve seen with Radiohead. Free music. Punk band Pennywise is giving out free, ad-supported music through Textango via its mobile music distribution service. If you add Textango as a ...