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Wednesday fun – Chris Anderson abuses ‘free’

In an ironic twist Chris Anderson is guilty of taking content for his latest book from Wikipedia for free and without citation:

Chris Anderson and his US publisher Hyperion have said they intend to "correct" future editions of his title Free after the Virginia Quarterly Review said it had "discovered almost a dozen passages [...]

EMI go DRM free

mspoke, who is a regular commenter on this blog, yesterday posted this as a comment to my “going on holiday” post:

Nic,

How can you go away when EMI announce they will be offering DRM-free music from May. Maybe people will respond to this comment.

What I don’t get about the EMI announcement is [...]

Now major labels are thinking about DRM free MP3 sales

This is going further and faster than I thought, driven by fears that illegal file sharing is starting to hit the growth of digital music sales.

This is from the International Herald Tribune.

Executives of several technology companies meeting here at Midem, the annual global trade fair for the music industry, said this weekend [...]

YouTube to start paying for content in deal with Warner

The following was on MarketCluster

Warner Music is partnering with YouTube in a content licensing deal that means the label will make money when its content is used in videos that appear on YouTube. No deal terms were disclosed. Warner is making its entire music video library available on YouTube and the [...]