Showing posts with label Internet downloads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet downloads. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Music firms want royalties from hotels and prisons, London Times, 12/28/08

Via London Times: Music firms want royalties from hotels and prisons, Recording industry to fight Ireland’s copyright exemption in court as sales decline:

"MUSIC corporations are taking the [Irish] government to court for giving hotels and prisons an exemption from royalties when they pipe songs into bedrooms and cells.

The case is a further sign of record companies’ determination to open up new revenue streams as profits from CD sales decline sharply due to internet downloads. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5404364.ece