EU to Music Industry: Get Your Act Together

Courtesy Mashable!  Tue, 05/26/2009 - 08:29

When we talk about an online music or video service, almost inevitably we’re talking about the US version of the service, because - due to copyright issues - the service (or at least some of its content, as is the case with YouTube) doesn’t work in the bigger part of the world.

The usual explanation I hear is “it’s due to copyright laws,” but the entertainment industry has, in fact, the power to change things; they’re just slow and reluctant...

Tags:

 

More related items

Google search changes bad for net, says Twitter
Google accused of warping its search results by boosting posts from its Google+ social networkGoogle has angered Twitter and faces accusations of "warping" its search results and breaking...

Copyright is Failing, Who Feeds the Artists? Asks EU...
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has once again spoken out against the so-called copyright monopolies. Last year at the Forum d’Avignon she noted that if media...

Google to launch music store with upgrade to Android
'Google Music' service will form part of new version of Android operating system designed specifically for tablet devicesGoogle is to launch a music service to compete with Apple's iTunes...


 

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
computer-internet.marc8.com