Music search and streaming service Project Playlist may finally be turning the tide in its ongoing battle with the music industry. EMI Music, one of the three major labels which was suing Project Playlist for copyright infringement, dropped out of the litigation and is announcing today that it has licensed its entire catalog to the service instead. EMI joins Sony BMG, which was never part of the lawsuit, in licensing its digital catalog of music to Project Playlist.
That is two down, two to go. Warner Music and Universal Music Group are still party to the suit. If Project Playlist CEO Owen Van Natta can get them to license their catalogs as well, maybe the vultures circling the company will go away. The service is currently banned on both Facebook and MySpace. Getting the other two labels on board would be necessary for lifting those bans.
Warner and Universal don’t seem to be in any rush to settle, however. And Project Playlist doesn’t have much time. The number of U.S. unique visitors going to its site has dropped from 10.4 million in November, 2008 to 6.1 million in February, 2009, according to comScore.
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Isn’t Warner working with YouTube already? So I doubt they’ll be interested. And Universal tends to march to their own beat, I think.
I doubt they’re really suing them for the money… I think they want either ownership of the project, or just to drive them into the ground.
Maybe EMI & Sony BMG realized that Project Playlist is ran by smart people and decided to monetize instead of stigmatize.
There is no Sony BMG anymore
Interesting announcement for EMI, given the recent restructuring and more explicit digital focus. This service is cool, but it seems like the labels could develop something in-house that could offer the same functionality and provide a more direct syndication relationship with the label and the sites that are streaming their songs.
These lawsuits were part of a negotiation, as they always are. There’s a carrot and a stick and the lawsuit is the stick. It’s a totally standard playbook.
Why does labels need a carrot when the stick is plenty enough?
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playlist is a very good service. I wonder if they will bind to twitter…
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Nowadays, it’s an inversion of “If you build it, they will come”
It is now, “if they want it, and it doesn’t exist, they will build it”
To kill all access to a specific kind of community project that is in high demand, simply provokes previous people involved to go and create their own “new and improved version of it”
Home of the underdogs, the most popular abandonware website went under, and now you can NOT count the number of spin off sites that were immediately established…
There is one called gog.com that finally got rights holders to cooperate with them to sell the product that was completely unavailable for purchase anywhere, let alone a paid digital download…
The two holdout companies for the music industry are looking to gain profit from a lawsuit that wrecks the company, which will then spawn countless more companies from the jilted user base of millions of individual human beings who contributed to their content…
There IS a profit model if they WORKED with the company, but these ancient behemoths of companies are unwilling to adapt… Make an agreement with the site that gives you profit and royalties, instead of this “cut off the hydras head” bull****…