Warner quits free music streaming
By Ian Youngs
Music reporter, BBC News
Record label Warner Music has said it will stop licensing its songs to
free music streaming services.
Companies like Spotify, We7 and Last.fm give free, legal and instant
access to millions of songs, funded by adverts.
Luckily in the USA, free services can still stream it and pay the
default royalties instead. They just will have worse restrictions.
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Update:
We got in touch with Tom Conrad, the CTO of Pandora, who had this to
say regarding the effect this would have on the company. He writes:
This all started with Edgar Bronfman's comment on the Warner conference
call where he was addressing free on-demand services such as Spotify
that are d
I wonder if with Spotify they will still allow their songs on the paid
service but just removed from the free service.
Unfortunately, we don't have Spotify here yet in Germany (we often lag
behind oddly enough) but as soon as it came out I was considering the
paid option. I hate ads and yet would
Clarification from Spotify:
"To be clear WMG is not pulling out of Spotify. Media is taking things
out of context. So don't worry-be happy :)"
http://twitter.com/Spotify/status/8919825963
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^^ Funny enough, I just read that 20seconds ago on Engadget. Still, the
big question remains when or if we will see Spotify in germany. ;O)
Thanks for the update though :O)
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