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Pink Floyd Win Battle to Halt Single-Song Download Sales

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Pink Floyd have won their lawsuit over single-song downloads against EMI, effectively halting the digital sale of the band’s individual tracks. As Rolling Stone reported yesterday, under the terms of a 1999 contract that predated iTunes and other digital-music retailers, the band mandated its songs could not be offered outside the [...] Continue reading

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Web Radio Companies Reach Deal With Labels: Pandora Survives

Internet radio companies and the major record labels have reached a revised royalty agreement that will make it possible for beleaguered services like Pandora to survive, the New York Times reports. Under the terms of the deal, which the Internet radio companies struck with negotiating organization SoundExchange, minimum per-stream royalties were cut by roughly 40 [...] Continue reading

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