EMI has beat Apple to the punch, releasing The Good, The Bad & The Queen, an album by Gorillaz’ Damon Albarn’s latest supergroup as a DRM-free download. It’s the first EMI album to be offered for legal download in mp3 format, free of copy protection. For the first time, downloads by EMI artists purchased from [...]

Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro offered his support today for an announcement from Apple and EMI Music that Apple will offer the entire digital music catalog of EMI Music DRM-free in a high quality format. “CEA applauds Apple and EMI Music for recognizing what consumers really want out of their digital music [...]

Apple today announced that EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide starting in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to [...]

EMI Music, in a joint event with Apple, announced today that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. Here are the slides from the announcement….

EMI Music, in a joint event with Apple, announced today that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. The new higher quality DRM-free music will complement [...]

EMI has announced (above) a special event with Apple to be held today in London. EMI Chief Executive Eric Nicoli will be joined by Apple Chief Executive and co-founder Steve Jobs to make a joint announcement. Whlie some are speculating that they will announce that the Beatles’s music will be available for the first time [...]

Warner Music Group Corp. confirmed today that it has approached EMI about a possible acquisition of the entire equity of EMI. Unlike previous hostile attempts at taking one another over (in 2000 and 2003), this proposed acquisition seems to be mutually desirable, with Warner’s confirmation issued in response to an earlier announcement by EMI. This [...]

EMI is reported to be talking to online retailers about selling its entire digital music catalog in MP3 format without copy protection. The move would create a major split in the music industry. Earlier this week, Warner Music chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. responded to Steve Jobs’ challenge to dump DRM by telling industry analysts [...]