The US Copyright Royalty Board has published its ruling which effectively imposes a truce between the demands of songwriters, music labels and digital music services by keeping royalties on CDs, music downloads, online streaming services and ringtones broadly unchanged. The ruling gives none of the parties what they asked for but should be good news for the growing digital music market in the US, and is likely to set the tone for other jurisdictions.
Michelle Wong, 14 October 2008
Lovefilm's 'asset-swop' with Amazon has finally happened. The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared Lovefilm's acquisition of Amazon's DVD rental business despite significant earlier competition concerns. Under the deal Amazon is handing over its UK and German DVD mail order business to...
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Simon Fox, 21 April 2008
Amazon.com, a US Fortune 500 company is the recognised global brand leader in internet retailing, with annual revenues over $15bn in 2007. It has grown customers, products and revenues consistently over the last decade, but did not record a profit until 2004. Over the last 3 years, profit...
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Simon Fox, 13 January 2008