Computers

The Internet music provider will market an up-and-coming band for EMI Recorded Music as it seeks to become a promotional vehicle for the big record labels. [News.com] (April 24, 2001)

Another free ride is coming to an end for Web music, only this time it's the musicians who stand to lose out. [News.com] (March 16, 2001)

With its ear attuned to the sound of money, digital music giant MP3.com on Thursday unveiled a new initiative to harmonize retailers, labels, music players, and hardware and software tools. [News.com] (January 04, 2001)

As MP3.com moves into the ambient music scene, a battle is raised between new and old media: MP3 vs. Muzak. [News.com] (December 26, 2000)

Online music company MP3.com said Thursday that it has entered a video and audio licensing agreement with Warner Music Group, the record label owned by Time Warner. [News.com] (December 21, 2000)

Online music company EMusic, along with several independent record labels, became the latest to file copyright lawsuits alleging that MP3.com infringed its copyrights. [News.com] (December 19, 2000)

While shopping for cat food and dog leashes, customers of Petco Animal Supplies will get an earful of in-store music as part of a deal between the company and MP3.com. [News.com] (December 19, 2000)

MP3.com on Tuesday relaunched its controversial music-streaming service, My.MP3.com, in two forms--one paid, the other free--as the company attempts to emerge from its legal entanglements. [News.com] (December 05, 2000)

MP3.com inked a licensing deal Monday with David Bowie for the right to stream his music catalog over the Web, tying up a legal loose end stemming from its embattled online music locker service. [News.com] (November 27, 2000)

Internet music company MP3.com Thursday was slapped with another lawsuit, coming just two days after ending its costly legal battle with the major record labels. [News.com] (November 16, 2000)

MP3.com agreed Tuesday to pay $53.4 million to end its copyright infringement suit with Seagram's Universal Music Group in a deal approved by a federal judge just minutes before a scheduled trial to assess damages in the case. [News.com] (November 14, 2000)

MP3.com is scheduled to face trial Tuesday to determine how many of Universal Music Group's albums the start-up improperly copied for use in its ill-fated online music storage-locker service. [News.com] (November 13, 2000)

Web music service MP3.com on Wednesday agreed to a preliminary three-year, $30 million licensing agreement with the National Music Publishers' Association's subsidiary, The Harry Fox Agency. [News.com] (October 18, 2000)

Several U.S. congressmen have introduced new legislation that would legalize the services for which MP3.com faces potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in copyright damages. [News.com] (September 26, 2000)

Despite his company's mounting legal troubles, the embattled chief executive of MP3.com today vowed to fight on. [News.com] (September 12, 2000)

A federal judge ruled MP3.com willfully infringed the copyrights of Seagram's Universal Music Group, opening the company to enormous potential damages in one of the first trials to address the legal boundaries of Internet music distribution. [News.com] (September 09, 2000)

A federal judge today found that MP3.com willfully infringed the copyrights of Seagram's Universal Music Group, opening the company to enormous potential damages in one of the first trials to address the legal boundaries of Internet music distribution. [News.com] (September 06, 2000)

The company today unveiled a service that will email Net music fans radio-edited songs. [News.com] (August 31, 2000)

Lawyers for MP3.com tried and failed to turn the tables on Seagram's Universal Music Group in court today, countering charges of copyright infringement with accusations of anti-competitive tactics by the record label. [News.com] (August 30, 2000)

MP3.com chief executive Michael Robertson took the witness stand today to defend his company against charges of willfully violating record label copyrights to profit from a novel Internet music service. [News.com] (August 28, 2000)

A legal hourglass is draining to the end for MP3.com, which will face trial for potentially huge copyright-infringement damages next week if it can't strike a deal with one remaining record company. [News.com] (August 25, 2000)

Net music site MP3.com has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit with Sony Music Entertainment, sparking a rally in its stock price. [News.com] (August 22, 2000)

MP3.com has settled a copyright infringement suit with a unit of EMI Group, allowing the online music company to resume distribution of songs owned by the record label. [News.com] (July 28, 2000)

MP3.com today settled a copyright infringement lawsuit with Time Warner and BMG Entertainment. [News.com] (June 09, 2000)

When MP3.com first came on the scene, there was a photo on its Web site that industry insiders say may be a fitting icon for the rebel Net music company: Billy Idol giving the recording industry the finger. [News.com] (January 28, 2000)