Sep
10
Recording Companies Are Suing The Ellen Degeneres Show
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Some of the world’s largest recording companies are suing “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” claiming producers violated their copyrights by playing more than 1,000 songs during the “dance over” segment of the show without permission.According to the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Nashville, the defendants said they didn’t “roll that way.” Scott Rowe, spokesman for the show’s Telepictures Productions, wrote in an e-mailed statement that the company has been working with the record labels for months to resolve the issue and remains willing to resolve it on “amicable and reasonable terms.”
Rowe said the issue does not involve DeGeneres, who on Wednesday was named as the fourth judge on TV’s “
Plaintiffs include Arista Music, Atlantic Recording Corp., Capitol Records, Motown Record Company, Sony Music Entertainment, Virgin Records America and Warner Bros. Records.
Nov
24
According to CNet, there is a rumor that Apple is in talks with Sony Music Entertainment, among two other major record labels to offer their catalog on the iTunes music service without the standard DRM restrictions.
Amazon has been selling DRM free music from major labels for more than a year now, so we know it’s not the labels who are in favor of restricted music. Of course, the restricted music sold from Apple’s stores only works on the company’s iPod music players. Allowing DRM free music would allow users to play downloaded tracks on any other player.
