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JOINED-UP THINKING UK MUSIC ISSUES P2P RESPONSE.
UK Music passed its first real test with flying colours after corralling its members last week and persuading them to produce an 11th- hour joint industry response to illicit filesharing.
The move comes as the deadline for the BERR consultation on how to deal with P2P draws rapidly near. It closes on Thursday (October 30), when UK Music will submit the final joint statement.
It is also a major coup for the nascent organisation, which officially opened its doors today (Monday).
A draft deal has been circulating the industry for a couple of weeks and UK Music chief executive Feargal Sharkey has been confident a deal could be reached.
But, even late last week, there were some voices within the business who believed consensus would be difficult to find in last Thursday's UK Music board meeting because of different views ...
- Brazin expands UK music business.
- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence October 28, 2002 700+ words
Oct 28, 2002 (The Australian Financial Markets Newsletter - INSTO - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Brazin is acquiring an additional 41 music stores from the Virgin Group in the UK. The Australian music retailer has acquired an inventory worth around Stg2.8m, which will be funded internally and by a vendor
- Society hits a wrong note over royalties; Without consultation, the MCPS has...
- Magazine article from: New Media Age November 18, 1999 700+ words
Four weeks ago, the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) - the organisation that collects royalties on behalf of musicians and songwriters - sparked off a storm within the music industry. Following months of inaction and deliberation within the British music industry over how to ensure
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- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) May 21, 2009 700+ words
...ALISTAIR HOUGHTON THE future of the music business is still bright, despite the...Machine" on the future of the UK music business. It saw panellists, including...demonstrates to any young person in the music business what it is possible to achieve...
- Look east and west, Douglas Alexander tells UK music industry: Government...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire January 24, 2005 700+ words
...Douglas Alexander tells UK music industry: Government pledges...continuing to support the UK music industry in reaching new markets...continuing its support for the UK music industry to help expand their...by representatives of the Music Business Forum. This will be ...
- In Wales the hills are alive with the sound and the money of music; The music...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) October 16, 2002 700+ words
...a shock when people realise that the music business produces a massive turnover, pumping...manufacturing. Full time employment in the UK music industry now tops 140,000. What about...very high on Tony Blair's agenda. A UK Music Office is about to open in New York...
- Why Apple's iTunes are a raw deal in UK; Music website faces inquiry for...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) December 4, 2004 700+ words
...charged more to use it than the French and Germans. It costs UK music fans 79p to download a track on Apple's iTunes website...week. The website commands 70 per cent of the downloaded music business. Songs can be downloaded for a fraction of the cost of a...
- AUSTRALIA'S BRAZIN ACQUIRES UK MUSIC STORES FROM VIRGIN.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News October 15, 2001 700+ words
...where a five per cent share is equivalent to a 25 per cent share of the Australian market - we've doubled the size of our music business." IN2 Music in Australia will be re-launched as Virgin Music - Brazin is paying one per cent of revenue to Virgin...
- Blundy flip-flops to stop UK music.
- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence July 16, 2003 700+ words
...Brazin, will restructure its business. Investors had expected the company to reduce the size of the unprofitable Sanity music business. However, a report by Bain International recommended that its UK business be sold. The company intends to launch a business...