The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998 extended the US term of copyright to bring it in line with international norms.
The online music service is currently only available in the US for Mac computer users.
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The service, only available in the US, enables users to store their music on Google's servers in the "cloud", so that they can use it on any connected device.
The book, a series of interlocking stories set against the background of the US music industry, jumps around in time from the punky 1970s to the near-future.
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Spotify, the largest and fastest growing music service of its kind, is available from today in the US. We're massively excited to be here.
Spotify, the UK based competitor as an internet radio station or music streaming service to Pandora, has just launched in the US as they said they would.
"First, the UK and Europe have an incredibly vibrant classical music scene in terms of concert attendance, record labels and journalism - though of course the US is the biggest single country in terms of actual classical music sales, " he said.
He spent almost two decades out of the spotlight, although the US music industry honoured him in 1989, inducting him into its Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
The UK remains the third biggest market for music behind the US and Japan - and the number of new albums sent to retailers in July, August and September 2003 reached an all-time high of 230 million.
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"British music definitely had a good year in the United States last year, " says Mark Sutherland, international bureau chief at US music bible Billboard.
But it's possible many of us will be using cloud music systems in the not-far-off future.
Mr. PAGE: I enjoyed feeling like a collaborator--I mean, actually being a collaborator in this situation, where the endeavor was purely artistic--which is largely what Barenaked Ladies' intentions are, but it's so caught up for us in the world of the music business.
"You can't express how much this one man meant to those of us dreaming to make it in the music business, " Wilson said.
The sales figure for Up All Night may appear low given the size of the US music market, but album sales have plummeted in recent years.
Leverage from our deep roots in music and art cultures will be a focus for us out of the gates.
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Produced on Broadway by Lincoln Center Theater, "The Nance" is a two-layered play in which authentic-sounding burlesque routines concocted by Mr. Beane and Glen Kelly, who wrote the original music, alternate with backstage scenes that show us in agonizing detail what Chauncey's emotionally starved private life is like.
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Currently, the app is only available in the US, and it only supports questions about places, music and news.
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But arriving so late in the US means that the newcomer will find a market where digital music consumers already have plenty of choice, from Pandora to last.fm, from Rdio to Rhapsody.
We imagined a device that would do for games what the iPod and Kindle have done for music and books, letting us play in a cool new way.
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Since New York is one of the best music cities in the world and is right in our backyard, contributing to the digital music conversation during Internet Week just feels right to us.
And if Americans hear us, they might see the progress that rock 'n' roll music in China has made.
"Yes, the Zune brand is gone, and the Zune products are gone, " Xbox Music GM Jerry Johnson told us in a meeting last week.
So I felt that the concert was a means to start this celebration whereby all Africa comes and in doing so, there's the music and there's also all the dimensions of us interacting with each other.
"I think it's neat both for Pearl Jam and Target that they've made a deal like this that is going to include the corner record store, where so many of us fell in love with music like Pearl Jam's, " Jim DeRogatis says.
Umbrella Assassins played a live set for us at The Fleece in Boxford during our radio show's tour of music venues.
After dropping out of music in the mid-60s, Lightfoot quickly returned to play with the Kenny Ball Band, touring the US, New Zealand and Fiji.
Jobs was clearly brilliant in creating consumer products that made it easier for each of us to listen to music, cruise the internet, play video games, and to a lesser extent, perform our business functions more efficiently.
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And in your typical spirit, you left by surprise as if to remind us once more, that in life as in music, each great performance could be the last one even if the show must go on.
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Even with the music labels as minor partners, and a proven business model in a number of territories, US listeners were locked out of the service until the lawyers for the American divisions of the shareholders checked over the pricing and remuneration.
The "good guys" have tried to tempt college kids with free legal music for far too long to no avail, and after continuous failed attempts at gaining traction here in the US, it's no surprise that the RIAA would devote precious man-hours to concocting a most-wanted list of pirating schools.
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