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Horses and waterJust as our terrier like competition
watchdog is getting ready to re-authorise APRA (see post here), the horse that is the recorded music
industry DownUnder is reportedly calling on Apple to hurry up and launch an
upside down iTunes Music Store which is kind of funny ...
According to Kirsty Needham in the
Sydney Morning
Herald, SonyBMG is claiming that it
has sold 2 million legally downloaded music tracks in Australia which apparently
means they are selling faster than something called "CD singles", but SonyBMG
goes on to admit that the sales are mostly music video clips to mobile
phones.
Around the same time, ARIA says that launching an iTunes Music Store DownUnder would be a major catalyst for online music sales. Meanwhile over at the BleedingEdge , there is all sorts of speculation that the reason those April rumours about an upside down iTunes Music Store didn't bear fruit is because someone (with a name not too remotely different to SonyBMG) pulled out of the deal at the last minute. SonyBMG says it is still negotiating with Apple on the terms the latter can get access to the Sony catalogue, but goes on to make the point that Apple could launch (and provide that major catalyst) anyway??? Kirsty Needham also tells us that, in the USA (where they've had iTunes Music Store for how long now*?), it is claimed that 43% of those downloading music are now using legal online sources; up from 24% last year. Of course, now that someone is actually making money for them, the record companies seem to think that they are giving their music away too cheaply and are reportedly trying to up their royalties in the USA. You can find Kirsty Needham's report here. For reports about the licensing impasse in the USA see here and here. Also remember what the Canadian cousins are trying to achieve here. While the record companies and iTunes and other online stores have joined together in the UK to take the collecting societies to the UK's Copyright Tribunal, here. I wonder where the Attorney-General's "fair use" inquiry has got to or if anyone would care to take up the extensions to the Australian Copyright Tribunal recommended by the CLRC? * The answer is 2 years and 1, 2, 3 at least 4 months. Posted: Sunday - 11 September, 2005 at 06:08 PM | |