Top Brass Shakeup At Sony BMG, Weiss In, Davis Out
Legendary and incendiary music executive Clive Davis is being replaced by Barry Weiss at Sony BMG, and taking a reduced role as Chief Creative Officer. Sony is positioning the new position for Davis as an über-A&R role, and certainly works to the 74 year-olds strengths. Barry Weiss is now Chairman and CEO of the BMG Label Group, which includes RCA Records, Jive, J Records, LaFace, Arista, Volcano, Verity, GospoCentric and Fo...
Majors Target Baidu & Sohu, MP3 Search Engines In China
In what could be the biggest claim for copyright-infringement damages in China, the major music labels have joined together to file copyright-infringement lawsuits in a Beijing court against two Chinese Internet companies, Baidu.com Inc. and Sohu.com Inc. The labels claim that the two companies promote illegal music file-sharing and are suing Baidu.com Inc. for $9 million and Sogou for $7.5 million in damages. The suit against...
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