Friday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: RIAA Pays, Deezer, Amazon & More

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RIAA is being forced to pay $108,000 in attorney fees to Tanya Andersen. (P2PNet)

> An in depth comparison of the legal download stores. (DigitalTrends)

> French ad supported music service Deezer gets the Universal catalog. (Billboard) UMG is the only major on board with Qtrax. Is Universal leading the ad-supported charge? Why no the other 3?

> Is major label diversification paying dividends? Paul at Digital Music News points out that in this week’s quarterly report, Universal credited increased publishing and merchandising revenues from its recent buyouts for a 6.8% quarterly revenue increase. Publishing has supported EMI for years.

> Adobe has improved music support for Flash (Wired)

> Amazon has added widgets that enable bloggers and webmasters to offer music sampling and a revenue share of purchases. (press release) But the samples are only 30 seconds…thanks to our friends at the labels.

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