music piracy

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 7:00AM 11/19/2011
    Prerecorded music has been a fading industry for years, and herding struggling labels together will only make it that much easier to identify the remains. And there aren't too many people mourning major labels' passing.

    By Linda Doell

    | 8:00AM 7/14/2011
    The makers of the beleaguered LimeWire peer-to-peer software have agreed to notify consumers that using the file-sharing program can expose private information, said Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler. The Consumer Protection Division of Gansler's office had been investigating LimeWire,...

    By Matthew Scott

    | 8:30AM 11/19/2010
    After a long and successful career, legendary music mogul Quincy Jones is reaching out to a new generation. In conversation with AOL, he points a finger at the Internet for crippling the music business.

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 1:06PM 9/13/2010
    When DailyFinance reporter Jon Berr's wife posted a brief video on YouTube of their 3-year-old son dancing to Survivor's Eye of the Tiger, she never expected to become part of the complex fight over copyright and fair use on the Internet.

    By Sam Gustin

    | 10:00AM 11/05/2009
    And so it goes on: the interminable wait for a deal that would make the Beatles music available on the Web. Instead, Apple Corps. Ltd., which manages the Beatles' legacy, and EMI, the band's record label, have announced the release of a limited-edition USB flash drive preloaded with Beatles songs...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 2:00PM 10/23/2009
    Scot Sandra Burt was singing to herself to pass the time as she stocked shelves at the grocery store where she works, in Clackmannashire, Scotland. Imagine her surprise when the UK's Performing Right Society (PRS), sent her a letter warning that she could be fined for singing songs written by its...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 2:20PM 3/04/2009
    A foreign court decision and a bit of legislation floating around Washington could soon reshape the music and video entertainment industry. Time will tell how this will affect your pocketbooks. The issue in both instances is the digital rights to music, movies, and television shows. For years, the...