With CD sales slipping and perhaps encouraged by the network television writers wanting their fair share of the Internet pie, the Songwriters Association of Canada also want fair compensation off the World Wide Web. In addition, the songwriter’s association wants the music and lyrics to be free to download for fans. So, who will pay [...]

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Cell phone giant Nokia has teamed up with top record label Universal Music Group to offer its customers free unlimited music downloads. This new music model flies in the face of current pay-per-track models offered by other current competitors. The free unlimited music downloads that Nokia and Universal are offering are an attempt to thwart [...]

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Apple’s been bobbing for patent applications this week and that has caused all sorts of speculation as to what this could mean for the iPhone. Looks like the big PC-buster is looking for a method to display music lyrics on their iPhones and iPods in conjunction with songs that their clients download. Gracenote has been [...]

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The Rhapsody of Searchable Music Lyrics Free searchable music lyrics to over 200,000 songs are now being offered at Rhapsody Online. In a deal with RealNetworks and LyricFind, the lyrics from 1,800 different independent and major music publishers are being offered at no charge. This offering will provide competition to the Yahoo and Gracenote offering [...]

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Emerging musical artists now have a new venue online in which to be found. The place is called OurStage, which is your stage for being seen, heard and discovered. In a concept similar to American Idol, OurStage let’s the fans vote their favorites to the top of the rankings. According to Oscar Rohena who works [...]

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