Obviously, record labels want radio companies to pay them performance royalties, and radio companies have traditionally opposed the idea.
Still, big pharma is backing the Kennedy-Enzi plan, which would also give the FDA more power to change drug labels and force companies to conduct studies.
The record labels, film companies and games firms that supply it with stock were persuaded to take a small stake in HMV as the chain found it increasingly difficult to pay them for the merchandise.
Record labels and radio companies have actively lobbied Congress on the issue of whether the Copyright Act should be amended to legally require the payment of sound recording performance royalties for the past 80 years.
Our research from different countries suggests that instead of using GMO labels, most food companies prefer to buy more expensive non-GMO ingredients and pass the added costs to the consumers.
"Our hope is that rather than put the labels on, these companies will get off their duffs and do what all their competitors are doing and just get the lead out, " said Jim Wheaton, president of the Environmental Law Foundation, a California-based environmental group.
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He approached airlines, carmakers, hotels, drink companies, clothing labels and even a manufacturer of horse shampoo.
The Treasury Department, which regulates alcohol, said this past week that beer, wine and spirits companies can use labels that include serving size, servings per container, calories, carbohydrates, protein and fat per serving.
Mr Christensen thinks that RoboBraille could be funded by a combination of public and private grants as well as charging pharmaceutical companies for producing Braille labels for medication which is soon to become a legal requirement.
It is unclear whether beer companies will actually use the labels, however.
Where the record labels once called the shots, now companies like Apple, Wal-Mart and Best Buy seem to have just as much say with their ability to promote individual songs or albums to dedicated audiences of buyers.
U.S. labels get around this by licensing from foreign companies.
Customers will get access to "hundreds of thousands of songs, both current popular hits and back catalogue, from the world's largest record companies, and many smaller independent labels, " Vodafone said in a statement.
It is one thing to argue that American smokers make a conscious decision to purchase cigarettes despite warning labels and that, accordingly, the tobacco companies are not responsible for their loss of health.
Spokeswoman Gladys Horiuchi said the group knows of no wine companies that plan to use the new labels.
Dr. Bronner's says that the certification companies have issued loose standards for organic labels that a "reasonable consumer" would not understand to include petrochemicals.
"None of the labels you're dealing with are major music companies, " objects Stuart Hersch, president of Universal Music Group, who has scrutinized Gould's business plan.
"None of the labels you're dealing with are major music companies, " objects Stuart Hersch, president of Universal Custom Records, who has scrutinized Gould's business plan.
Hundreds of record labels and stores, dozens of film and TV production companies have closed.
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The labels are voluntary, so it will be up to beverage companies to decide whether to use them on their products.
Independent labels have been better at spotting and nurturing talent than have the big companies.
Most of the goods CCBU imported (sugar, bottling equipment, plastic preforms, labels, caps, etc.) went through the Maqsudi-owned companies.
And it would give the FDA the power to fine companies to force them to do safety studies or change the labels of drugs.
And then, because of being a performer, the people who are producing you as far as record companies, not necessarily the new indies - the new independent labels - which is what I am on now.
Mensing that failure-to-warn claims against generic drug companies are preempted by federal law, primarily because generic companies have no authority to make unilateral changes to their product labels even if they come to believe that stronger safety warnings are warranted.
Standards announced Tuesday by the Secure Digital Music Initiative -- a group of computer and music companies -- will finally clear the way for the major record labels to make their top tunes instantly available.
Almost 10 years later, Smith said he expects Diageo gradually to put the new labels on all of its products, which include a small number of beer and wine companies.
Desperate record labels might have been willing to sell themselves over to Apple, but TV executives and cable companies are strong enough that they have no need to cede power to Cupertino.
In November, Best Buy, Minute Maid and Clorox joined companies like Costco Wholesale, General Mills, Seventh Generation and REI in promising to implement the labels early next year.
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