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Napster Gains Strength out of Germany
One of the worlds largest independent record labels, Germany based Edel">http://www.edel.com">Edel Music AG, has agreed to license its music for trade on Napster’s upcoming pay peer to peer service.
While exact financial details of the deal were not disclosed, the deal will allow Edel Music artists to be featured in Napster's promotional programs starting in February.
The four other major record labels Sony Music, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Music still have not adjusted their legal and tactical stance on Napster while litigation has been on a recess over the holidays, at least publicly.
The year is shaping to be quite interesting however with many new key lawmakers taking office with the new presidency in the US.
The newly announced deal with Edel Music AG shows a good sign of acceptance of the new revolutionary service through some other key players in the music industry. Perhaps this will be a sign to other players in the music industry that BMG may be on the right track in attempting to harness the power of the service instead of fighting it and the technology which allows it to be possible.
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DaveB
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Date: January 2, 2001 @ 8:21 PM
Finally! I remember labels were reluctant to embrace the web around 1995 - saying the Internet was "a passing fad". |
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Anonymous
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Date: January 2, 2001 @ 9:51 PM
"Pay" Napster sure isn't what I'd want to bet on.
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homogenuity
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Date: January 3, 2001 @ 3:12 AM
though Edel is technically not a major label, Rudy Gassner (whom we all know as CEO of BMG) was on the Edel advisory board, and is assumed to be the orchestrator of this deal.
as such, one has to believe that Edel was on its way to becoming a proving ground for BMG, if Rudy's plans weren't to absorb it altogether.
and now we hear that Edel artists are to be featured on Napsters artist pages?
and Warner artists to be featured on MP3.COM?
hmmm ... how can independent acts compete? where will they get promotion, if even sites that supposedly exist to support smaller acts are giving their promotional space to majors and their affiliates?
it seems that sites are selling out; cashing in on the more lucrative major label content and forsaking the communities that built them.
DMusic ... please stay true to your indie roots.
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or the thought had crossed my mind that DMusic might be a launchpad for indie acts to get picked up by AMG, and shopped around to the majors? |
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Heidi
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Date: January 3, 2001 @ 11:51 AM
Some passing fad. Hehe.
~Heidi |
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doobybrain
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Date: January 3, 2001 @ 2:14 PM
i agree with you. how WILL artists who are not yet famous become famous if they are continuously becing covered by other mainstream artists? i thought napster's ideas was to promote artists and try to get them on their way...not to leave them in the same place and watch the ones who are better off be even better. what has happened to their previous business model? its all going away....
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doobybrain
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Date: January 3, 2001 @ 2:16 PM
stop helping those who dont need any more help. why not promote those who are not as well-known as others?
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DaveB
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Date: January 3, 2001 @ 3:22 PM
Most of the music companies who promote over exposed artists do so because someone else has tested the waters - the others follow. So you get this huge push for people who don't need it. Personally, I'm amazed that people but into it, but to each his/her own. There's so much stuff out there that's better. It's just a matter of time. |
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