var fbShare = {url: ‘http://agentzoo.com/2010/02/28/cute-baby-video-wins-battle-against-music-label-reuters/’,size:’large’} Reuters – How much should a copyright owner pay for improperly telling a web site to remove content?
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var fbShare = {url: ‘http://agentzoo.com/2010/02/27/performers-see-tiny-returns-from-streaming-music-reuters/’,size:’large’} Reuters – As the music business continues to watch traditional revenue streams slow or even evaporate, a good deal of faith often has been placed in what’s hailed as a panacea for the industry’s ills: online streaming.
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MOG, an on-demand music streaming service with backing from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music, has raised $9.5 million in a new round of funding.
MOG, which has already raised over $10 million in angel and Series A rounds, launched in December with the goal of muscling into the [...]

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File under “strange and delightful” — CodeOrgan is a Flash app that turns any web page into music.
It analyses the text in the body of the supplied URL and follows an algorithm to render that site into a musical composition. It chooses a drum pattern, synth style and key [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://agentzoo.com/2010/02/24/the-new-twones-delicious-meets-stumbleupon-for-online-music/’,size:’large’} Twones started life as a FriendFeed-type service that aggregated various music services into a single stream, which we dubbed a social music feed when we first caught wind of it.
Problem was, the startup says, since users generally couldn’t play the music on their site and were constantly being [...]

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://agentzoo.com/2010/02/20/microsoft-phone-system-hits-reset-on-digital-music-reuters/’,size:’large’} Reuters – It’s been more than six years since then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates admitted that Apple caught the company “flat-footed” in the digital music market and directed his team to make up for lost ground, according to recently surfaced internal e-mails.

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var fbShare = {url: ‘http://agentzoo.com/2010/02/14/omnifone-signs-music-deal-for-googles-android-reuters/’,size:’large’} Reuters – Omnifone, the digital music service provider, is to make its MusicStation offering available to all mobile handsets which carry Google Inc’s Android operating platform, it said on Monday.
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var fbShare = {url: ‘http://agentzoo.com/2010/02/09/warner-ceo-sees-e-book-fracas-as-helping-music-ap/’,size:’large’} AP – The head of Warner Music Group expressed hope on Tuesday that the recent “fracas” over the price of e-books would help give content creators such as his company more pricing power over device makers.
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var fbShare = {url: ‘http://agentzoo.com/2010/02/08/music-ownership-beats-music-subscription-in-reader-poll/’,size:’large’} In last week’s Faceoff Series we asked about music consumption models: Do Mashable readers prefer to own their entire music collections or do some of you gravitate toward subscription services?
One week later and the results are in: Ownership wins the day at a full 50% of the vote. Of [...]