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Byline: By, Lawrence Matheson Stability AI, the troubled artificial intelligence firm behind image generating software Stable Diffusion, is attempting a fresh start with a new chief executive and an influx [...]

Byline: Mike Snider, USA TODAY Remember Napster, the online network that let you download music tracks for free? All it did was totally change the entertainment industry. Still, you may [...]

VANCOUVER: BIGG Digital Assets Inc, announces that TerraZero and Napster, the original music disruptor and longest-running independent music streaming service in the world, and TerraZero Technologies, the leading open metaverse [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff For the past several years, the Canadian news media has been working hard to persuade you that Big Tech has been stealing our content - by [...]

Byline: Steffi Cao, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — At the turn of the millennium, web-based technology was in a state of chrysalis. Google was just one of several mainstream search [...]

NAPLES FLORIDA: Music Licensing, Inc., operating under the brand Pro Music Rights, announced significant achievements and market impact as revealed in its 2023 year-end audit, scheduled for completion. As the [...]

NAPLES, Fla: Music Licensing, Inc. has issued the following news release: Music Licensing, Inc. (OTC: SONG), operating under the brand Pro Music Rights, proudly announces significant achievements and market impact [...]

VANCOUVER: BIGG Digital Assets Inc., a leading innovator in the digital assets space and owner of TerraZero, Netcoins, and Blockchain Intelligence Group is pleased to announce that TerraZero has entered [...]

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia and LOS ANGELES: Somms.ai has issued the following news release: Somms.ai is emerging from stealth to unveil a groundbreaking solution for the music industry in the age [...]

The new podcast from the brothers Eric and Jeff Rosenthal explores what made hip-hop blogs matter — and why they faded away. For music fans who came of age after [...]

Byline: James Titcomb UNIVERSAL Music has warned that AI-created music threatens 'widespread and lasting harm' to artists and threatens a Napster-style crisis without robust copyright protections. The rise of ChatGPT, [...]

Byline: Kirsten Drysdale My earliest internet memories are sounds. The dial-up tone, the ICQ chat alert and the song Gone Away by the Offspring, which was the first track I [...]

Byline: Emma Garland It's 6pm on a weeknight in 2002. I settle into a desk chair and thump the huge, round power button on the family computer with my big [...]

NAPLES: Pro Music Rights, Inc. has issued the following news release: Pro Music Rights, Inc., one of the world's largest music licensing companies, announces the signing of an agreement to [...]

George Alagiah, broadcaster and writer, 66; Marvan Atapattu, coach and former Sri Lanka cricket captain, 51; Aston 'Family Man' Barrett, bassist (Bob Marley and the Wailers), 75; Boris Becker, commentator [...]

In the age of the internet, the way artists create, share and monetize their work has shifted and changed in the last 20 years. It all started when the file-sharing [...]

Byline: Nathan Jolly In 2001, Metallica were a band in extreme turmoil. They had just sued Napster and their own fans for copyright infringement; the bass player exited stage left [...]

Byline: Dorian Lynskey It must be about 20 years since I read my first article about 'the death of the album'. Technology gave birth to it in 1948 with the [...]

Byline: WADE SHERIDAN Charli XCX performs on a dreamy late night show alongside Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek in her new music video for 'New Shapes.' The trio [...]

Byline: Rashad Alexander Editor's Note: This A&E story contains opinionated statements. When a song or album gets leaked, it means a song has been unofficially released by an outside source [...]

Byline: WADE SHERIDAN The Rolling Stones dropped on Thursday a previously unreleased track titled 'Troubles A' Comin,' which will appear on the band's upcoming 40th anniversary edition of classic 1981 [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A new market study published by Global Industry Analysts Inc., (GIA) the premier market research company, today released its report titled https://www.strategyr.com/market-report-cloud-music-streaming-forecasts-global-industry-analysts-inc.asp. The [...]

Byline: WADE SHERIDAN Tinashe released on Friday her fifth studio album titled 333, which contains 16 tracks in total. The album is available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. -- The following information was released by the University of Pennsylvania: Remember Napster? The peer-to-peer file sharing company, popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, depended on [...]

LOS ANGELES: MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP has issued the following news release: Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) partner Yakub Hazzard is no stranger to the risks associated with [...]

Byline: WADE SHERIDAN Melissa Etheridge released on Tuesday a new music video for her latest single, titled 'One Way Out,' which will appear on a new album of the same [...]

Byline: Tommy Clift How NFTs may change the music industry Illustration: Mazie Neill Çó The Sentry A look at the future of the music industry. It's no secret that the [...]

We are invited to view the imminent arrival on the London stock market of The Hut Group, a Manchester-based e-commerce retailer, as an uplifting story of smart technology, clever marketing [...]

RealNetworks has agreed to sell its unit Rhapsody International, which operates the Napster music business, to MelodyVR for USD 70 million. MelodyVR specialises in VR music performances and live streamed [...]

Byline: Mark Sweney A British music tech startup has struck a surprise $70m deal to buy Napster, one of the pioneers of the music streaming revolution. London-listed MelodyVR, which films [...]

Byline: Pam Moore When I started teaching indoor cycling in the early 2000s, my playlists, mostly composed of songs I downloaded from Napster, were on CDs. While I'm thrilled that [...]

Byline: Caroline Morris Image courtesy of soundcloud.com SoundCloud rappers are about to make bank. Hopefully. Music streaming has been around for over two decades, beginning back in 1999 with the [...]

London: London Stock Exchange plc has issued the following announcement: MelodyVR Group PLC (AIM:MVR), a leading music company and operator of the MelodyVR and Napster platforms, announces that it has [...]

London: London Stock Exchange plc has issued the following announcement: MelodyVR (LON: MVR), the AIM quoted leading music company and operator of the MelodyVR and Napster platforms, is pleased to [...]

London: London Stock Exchange plc has issued the following announcement: MelodyVR Group PLC (AIM:MVR), a leading music company and operator of the MelodyVR and Napster platforms, is pleased to announce [...]

LOS ANGELES: Upturn Network has issued the following news release: Spotify is the go-to online music streaming service for hundreds of millions of people. One of the big attractions to [...]

Byline: WADE SHERIDAN Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line have joined forces on a new song, titled 'Undivided.' The pair create the song together in a studio [...]

SEATTLE: RealNetworks, Inc. has issued the following news release: RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) today announced the completion of the previously disclosed sale of Rhapsody International, Inc., which does business as [...]

SEATTLE, Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK) today announced the completion of the previously disclosed sale of Rhapsody International, Inc., which does business as Napster, to MelodyVR [...]

London: London Stock Exchange plc has issued the following announcement: Further to the announcement of 25 August 2020 of the conditional acquisition of Rhapsody International Inc., a Delaware corporation trading [...]

Byline: Justin Cho Students around the country are taking part in the Spotify Wrapped trend. How did Spotify manage to garner so much influence? It's that time of the year [...]

BOSTON: Media Shower has issued the following news release: Media Shower, the Boston-based media and communication company, and O'Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, have [...]

Byline: Anatole ShuklaAnatole ShuklaShelby DolchPowell SheagrenAtesh CamurdanAmy Harris Rolling Stone could learn from the adage that a rolling stone gathers no moss -- and roll on by ditching the '500 [...]

London: London Stock Exchange plc has issued the following announcement: MelodyVR Group PLC ('MVR' or the 'Company') Interim Results Publication Date MelodyVR Group PLC (AIM:MVR), the leading creator of virtual [...]

SEATTLE: Rhapsody International Inc. has issued the following news release: Napster and RecoChoku announced today a new partnership that offers NTT DOCOMO subscribers access to 50 million songs. RecoChoku is [...]

RecoChoku's dMusic(TM) Subscription Service Now Powered by Napster SEATTLE, Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Napster and RecoChoku announced today a new partnership that offers NTT DOCOMO subscribers access to 50 [...]

Byline: Sandy Mccarthy Napster made its name as an illegal music downloading platform after its launch in 1999 but has since moved to a model offering licensed tracks to both [...]

Byline: Emma Kirwin For as long as people have been charging for music, people have also been trying to access it for free. Even before the internet gave us torrenting [...]