[IP] Microsoft, record labels can't agree on royalties
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From: Tor Fosheim <tfosheim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: October 4, 2005 1:05:59 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Microsoft, record labels can't agree on royalties
Hi David,
For IP, if you like:
Interesting news - especially with this Apple/Warner conundrum going
on. We are seeing steep drops in record sales that are obviously
connected to equally sharp rises in online single sales - and now the
record companies are beginning to feel like they got suckered,
methinks... Not even mighty Microsoft are getting them to the table
these days - at least not when they try to bring the prices down:
Ars Technica writes:
Microsoft, record labels can't agree on royalties
10/4/2005 10:17:43 AM, by Eric Bangeman
Microsoft's plans to launch a subscription-based music service are on
indefinite hold, after the software company walked away from
negotiations with the Big Four record labels. The central bone of
contention was royalties. The labels were looking for between US$6
and US$8 per user per month, a figure Microsoft balked at.
Apparently, those figures are in line with what the current
subscription services like Napster, RealNetworks, and Yahoo Music pay.
More: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051004-5384.htm
All the best from Oslo,
Tor
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Tor Fosheim
Journalist,
www.dinside.no/data
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