INFO: The Continuing Saga of Recording Companies and MP3

     This New York Times article, excepted and linked below, discusses various aspects of recording companies to regain control of the distribution of their recordings. This article should prove interesting to those in the electronic software book and journal publishing industries where similar intellectual property concerns exist.

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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: MATT RICHTEL
Title: Record Labels Assert Control in Cyberspace Source Date: July 5, 1999
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Record Companies, Internet/WWW, Piracy, Countermeasures URL: Listed Below Article Summary

July 5, 1999
NEWS ANALYSIS
Record Labels Assert Control in
Cyberspace
By MATT RICHTEL

     PALO ALTO, Calif. -- When it comes to portents of gloom, doom and despair, the record industry has lately been ticking off a litany of threats, real and imagined, posed by the Internet: Bands selling new albums directly over the Net; independent artists and labels posting thousands of music files online; music piracy on the Web, and online audio sites creating vast libraries of tunes.

     And yet, the major labels show no signs of ceding their reign over the music business. In fact, despite a few early setbacks and some critical hurdles ahead, the recording industry now seems intent on taking a leading role in digital distribution.

That fact was underscored by the announcement last week that recording, technology and consumer electronics companies had agreed to standards for protecting music copyrights in online music sales. In the last 18 months, the major labels have waged a remarkably successful war against piracy on the Net, using their music libraries and stables of popular artists as tools to persuade technology companies to cooperate, and have positioned themselves to dominate the digital music era.

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http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/05musi.html Received on Mon Jul 05 1999 - 13:01:25 GMT