Amazon Pushes to Clinch Music Deals
Amazon.com Inc. is aggressively courting the world’s leading music’s most important that the licensing agreements to enhance the online music service launched Tuesday that he would try to people familiar with the subject.
These people should have, that the talks also to minimize the bad blood with the four major labels label, including some that Amazon has given notice of its plans insufficient felt. The technology company began to notify the labels on the planned introduction of the service last week.
On Tuesday, a spokesman for Sony Corp. Sony Music Entertainment, the company was “disappointed” by the type of online retailers, the new service, called Amazon Cloud. “We are keeping our legal options,” added the spokesman.
Amazon does not respond to requests for comment.
How it works currently required Cloud Amazon users to copy any song in your music library on a remote server, which plays the songs on any PC with Internet capability and Android phones.
intellectual property experts agree that Amazon probably do not need permits music companies to offer such a “passive” configuration, adjust, thanks to a precedent in a 2007 complaint about a “DVR distance “Cablevision Systems Corp. system wanted to offer. In 2009, the U. S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court decision that Cablevision save copies to customers of television and movies on central servers, as long as there are separate copies of the programs allow each user.
A feature allowing Amazon since Tuesday control drawing record company lawyers: Amazon Cloud allows up to five people at once to hear a particular song. The Cablevision Systems has received the blessing that has allowed the federal courts “only one person to see a movie or TV show at a time.
But to be acceptable even if the system is legal, it can be very inefficient for Amazon, they need large amounts of storage capacity in the service to pay.
A much more efficient, but a need, perhaps the collaboration of record companies is to compare the music collection of each user to a central database and then grant access to all the songs already in the database not really for new copies of them. Songs are not recognized by the system yet downloaded and maintained a unique way. In addition to the more effective for Amazon, such an approach to a much faster, it would be easier for users.
People familiar with the matter said Amazon is driving around a matter of weeks, offers, so they want to offer such a service.
A small technology company called MP3tunes, Inc. in 2008 by EMI Group Ltd., one of the major groups that do offer this label without a license in court. That case is pending before U. S. District Court in New York.
Unlike La La Media Inc. offered such a service, with licenses record companies before them for $ 85,000,000 in 2009 from Apple Inc., which acquired later, stop the service. Apple, with the development of a “cloud” own system for over a year.
Amazon hasty movement this week has been widespread in the music industry as an attempt to overtake Apple and Google Inc. to develop a similar service performed. Despite offering lower prices to Apple in digital music, Amazon is struggling to increase its share of digital music sales more than 5% or 6%, depending on the direction of music.
Some music publishers who own copyrights to melodies and lyrics that say behind commercial recordings, not even in the short term, which has been their companions Amazon label.
“It’s just another land grab,” said Martin Bandier, President of Sony / ATV Music Publishing, the joint venture between Sony Corp. and the estate of Michael Jackson. “I can not say it clearly. It’s really disrespectful and of course we look at all our options. “
