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Indie music agency Merlin has settled its dispute with US firm XM Satellite Radio over the Pioneer Inno device, which let listeners record and play back songs from the satellite radio broadcasts. Major labels settled with...

The US' intellectual property enforcement coordinator Victoria Espinel has published a report promising new proposals to battle online piracy and IP infringement, which will be sent to the US Congress "in the very near future".

If Spotify gets carpeted for the recent outspoken on-record comments of its biz dev boss, it'll be ironic, because by our reckoning there have been at least 56 different rightsholder Deep Throats chattering away to journalists...

Universal Music Group has announced that it is donating more than 200,000 master recordings to the US Library of Congress...

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from several major labels against a ruling reinstating an antitrust lawsuit focused on digital music pricing.

Ever since the first iPhone came out, it has only been available on one operator in the US: AT&T. However, longstanding rumours of a new deal with Verizon Wireless look set to be finally confirmed tomorrow, at an event...

US royalties body SoundExchange has published its financial results for 2009, which have been much anticipated by supporters and critics alike. They reveal incoming royalties of $204.2 million for the year (up 20% on 2008),...

Nokia's Comes With Music never made it to the US, but now one of the local mobile operators is launching its own version. The operator is Cricket, and the service is called Muve Music. It will offer unlimited DRM'd...

Yesterday, we wrote about a study in France claiming that streaming music is now more popular there than downloading it. Figures from NPD Group now support the suggestion that this will soon be true in the US too. NPD claims...

Those rumours earlier this year about longer song previews on the iTunes Store? It seems they're finally being proved true.MacRumors has a copy of what it claims is an email from Apple to label representatives, explaining...

It's clearly the season for streaming music services to be talking stats. Following Spotify's payout revelations last week, now US personalised radio service Slacker has been spilling the beans, albeit deliberately...

Billboard has been crunching Nielsen SoundScan data to identify ongoing trends in digital album sales. The results aren't good. “Digital album sales aren't falling off a cliff, but they are experiencing a...