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# Sony BMG Refile For EU Merger OK
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/sony_bmg_refile/
- Published: 2007-02-02T01:40:21.000Z
- Updated: 2007-02-02T01:40:21.000Z
- Description: Sony and Bertelsmann have refiled for EU regulators to approve a 2004 deal the combined the music companies, the European Commission said Thursday. Regulators are re-examining the deal they cleared. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2007/02/sony_bmg_refile.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

Sony and Bertelsmann have refiled for EU  
regulators to approve a 2004 deal the combined the music  
companies, the  
European Commission said Thursday. Regulators are  
re-examining the deal they clea

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red in July 2004 after an EU court negated the approval citing "manifest errors"  
in how the EU had determined that combining the companies wouldn’t restrict customer choice.

For now its business as usual at Sony BMG. But even the hint of de-merger has cooled talks between EMI and WMG and has delayed the Universal BMG publishing merger. ([more](http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8N14BF00.htm?ref=hypebot.com))