YouTube’s library of licensed music just got a whole lot bigger thanks to a new deal with Merlin, the world’s fifth largest music label after Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group.  Merlin represents 14,000 artists including Aphex Twin and The Prodigy and now, when YouTubers upload videos with music from Merlin artists, instead of having the soundtrack removed from the video, the artists will receive royalties.


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In an attempt to gain the upper hand in a lawsuit asserted against it for using of wireless patents registered by Samsung, Apple has filed a new federal case seeking to gain important information from chip-maker Qualcomm to determine whether its use of its processing technologies will be covered by separate licensing agreements, Litigating Apple [...]

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In an attempt to gain the upper hand in a lawsuit asserted against it for using of wireless patents registered by Samsung, Apple has filed a new federal case seeking...

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This morning Vimeo has got some big news—they’re launching a music store to help users deal with the pesky issue of music licensing.  Now, instead of finding royalty free tracks or licensing music outside of Vimeo, Vimeo users can discover and license affordable music in the Vimeo Music Store.


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EMI, one of the ‘big four' record companies, has signed a partnership with social games publisher MXP4, making it one of the first major labels to sell music within social games on Facebook.As the Guardian reports today, the record label has agreed to a deal with MXP4 to provide  a range of tracks from EMI artists such as Lily Allen, Gorillaz, the Jackson 5 and David Guetta for MXP4′s Bopler Games collection of games on Facebook.The Bopler Games are driven directly by the music [...]

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