The original Nipper painting can be seen at EMI Music's Gloucester Place headquarters in London.
His father was head of property at EMI Music publishing and threw parties for visiting stars.
Take Jon Platt, a 45-year-old executive at EMI Music Publishing who measures over 6 foot 6.
Williams and record companies EMI Music Publishing and BMG Music Publishing had offered Ludlow Music a 25 percent slice of revenues from the single.
Apple has signed a cloud-music licensing agreement with EMI Music and is close to inking similar deals with other big labels, according to CNET.
The story notes that Vevo offers music from three of the four major music labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music.
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The agreements are with Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers.
It is being built by global consultancy Deloitte, which will work with publishers such as EMI Music Publishing and online music stores such as iTunes and Amazon.
Alan Levy, chairman of EMI Music, says there is "a common understanding" that Apple will begin to offer "differential pricing" on the iTunes Music Store within the next 12 months.
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"Amazon is an important destination for music fans, and we're pleased to see them creating innovative music services that offer fans the ability to enjoy their music conveniently on all their devices, " said Mark Piibe, Executive Vice President of Global Business Development for EMI Music.
It will make it easier for new music services to get started by ensuring that artists' work can be easily licensed for the internet, mobiles and streaming services such as Spotify, said Neil Gaffney, executive vice president at EMI Music Publishing UK, which is backing the scheme.
Groove Mobile also powers the music store for Orange Mobile in the U.K., and features music from labels such as EMI, Warner Music Group , V2 and Beggars Group.
Some think the announcement was a ploy to jump ahead of EMI and Warner Music in the regulatory queue, rather than the reflection of a done deal.
And Sony BMG will join EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store.
The firm has inked agreements with Universal Music Group, EMI Group (which Universal has just signed a deal to buy) and Sony Music Entertainment, but has been unable to do so with Warner Music Group.
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When it launched in October 2008, Spotify publicized music rights deals with Sony BMG Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, EMI and Merlin.
The battle for control of music giant EMI has pushed the owners of the iconic Capital Records tower in Holloywood to run for cover.
The Parlophone label group also includes the Chrysalis and Ensign labels, as well as EMI's recorded music operations in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia and Sweden.
Nevertheless, the four defendants were found guilty of 33 specimen charges, so they will have to pay compensation to 17 different music and media companies, including Warner Brothers, Sony BMG, 20th Century Fox, Universal Music and EMI.
Initially the site will offer 1 million, DRM-free songs (ramping up to 5 million) from Sony BMG, Warner Music, and EMI.
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Big music companies like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group are already experiencing a sharp decline in sales of compact discs.
Meanwhile, only EMI sells DRM-free music on Apple's iTunes store.
One of the world's big music groups, EMI , plans to sort out its struggling North American operations and picked one of its top executives, Ken Berry, to do it.
Spotify is a music service that allows unlimited streaming of songs from the Big Four music labels, Sony, Warner Music, Universal Music Group and EMI, and also offers a premium, add-free service via subscription.
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The service will first be rolled out in the Nordic countries on Monday morning, and will initially include one million tracks from the largest global music labels, including Sony BMG, Warner Music, and EMI.
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On the other hand, one might also want to consider that in September, Baidu's music accessibility got slammed by a quadumvirate of Warner Music Group, Vivendi Universal 's Universal Music Group, EMI Group and Sony BMG (half-owned by Sony), which all filed suits against the Chinese e-commerce firm (see: " Bronfman Leads Music Bigs In Baidu Piracy Lawsuit").
"For me, as an Englishman, EMI was the pre-eminent music company that I grew up with, " said Universal Music chairman and chief executive Lucian Grainge.
That questionable practice led EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal Music to sue Baidu for copyright infringement in 2005, though a Beijing judge ruled last year that Baidu could legally link to copyrighted materials.
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