Apple’s digital marketing tactics are reportedly set to be the subject of an inquiry by the Justice Department in the US.
Source: Billboard.com
The era of one-price-fits-all-songs on iTunes came to an end Tuesday as Apple Inc., the Internet’s dominant digital music store, began selling some of its most-downloaded songs for $1.29 apiece.
Apple said in January that it would end its practice of selling all individual songs for 99 cents each and …

Source: RollingStone
The Copyright Royalty Board decided Thursday not to raise the online royalty rates for song publishers, meaning much-publicized April 2007 threats by Apple to shut down the iTunes Music Store have become irrelevant. Had the board followed the National Music Publishers’ Association’s recommendation and hiked the rate on song …







