Monkrat Announces New Commission-Free Service To Sell Downloads Of Live Gigs
Monkrat, a UK concern, has developed an e-shop website plug-in that allows labels, musicians and other sound artists to sell downloads directly from their own sites. Developed initially as a methodology for selling downloads of live concerts, Monkrat has expanded to include virtually any type of audio content that the artist has legal rights to sell. In the Live Performance scenario, when musicians or bands play out, Monkrat’s...
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,...






