AP - Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it improperly collected and disclosed personal information on thousands of children under 13 without their parents’ consent.
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CNET - A new digital music service is getting lots of attention for proposing to help consumers sell their used MP3s in much the same way people once unloaded second-hand albums.
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PC World - You may have sold off your unwanted CDs and DVDs at a garage sale-or its eBay equivalent. Now, you can sell off your unwanted MP3s to top up your Christmas budget.
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Reuters - Social networking website MySpace announced its plans to get into the music business in April, launched MySpace Music in September and streamed more than 1 billion songs during its first few days of operation. And because MySpace has already become an important way to market music, labels naturally hope it will emerge as […]
Reuters - It’s been more than five years since Apple’s iTunes store changed music retail by introducing single-track digital downloads. But it wasn’t until 2008 that most musicians and labels started to wonder out loud whether selling music by the track is good for their bottom lines.
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PC Magazine - Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed Thursday to settle a Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) case for $1 million, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The settlement equals the largest settlement ever for a COPPA case, the FTC said.
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