AT&T Partners With eMusic For Cellular Download Service

AT&T Wireless has partnered with eMusic to deliver a new wireless music download service dubbed eMusic Mobile. Each song costs $1.50 and can only be purchased in bundles of five songs for $7.50. AT&T subscribers will have access to the entire 2.7 million-strong eMusic catalog. Like other mobile download services, each track is a dual-download, meaning one copy formatted for the mobile phone will be sent over the air, while...

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US Objects To Chinese Music Download Restrictions

The United States wants to discuss Chinese rules on music downloading and cinema rights that appear to discriminate against foreign sound recordings and films in a WTO complaint. Hollywood studios and U.S. Internet music providers such as Apple’s iTunes store could be among the groups that suffer from “less favorable distribution opportunities” for imported films and foreign suppliers of music recordings in China,...

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