Sony/BMG Offers Fan Sites Free Music & Music Videos
Sony/BMG is promoting a new site, called Musicbox Video, that showcases videos, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and other material from a broad portfolio of its artists. Instead of beating down the fan sites and bloggers with the usual cease-and-desist letters, Sony/BMG will advocate linking to Musicbox. Easy to implement links for adding Musicbox content are displayed right next to the songs and videos. Using Flash to...
Trade Commission Probes Apple
The United States International Trade Commission has launched a probe into whether Apple Computer’s iPod portable music player infringes on a patent owned by Creative Technology. Creative’s announcement of the inquiry is another mortar round fired over Apple’s high fortress, but showcases that this battle is going to be nasty. Creative alleges that its patent covers the user interface in its Nomad and Zen digital...






