Shazam strikes deal with Warner Music to identify the next big music artist
The deal will allow Warner Music to help it identify up and coming artists as well as music trends worldwide.
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The deal will allow Warner Music to help it identify up and coming artists as well as music trends worldwide.
Ireland has bent over backwards to accommodate the wishes of copyright holders by blocking file-sharing websites – but there isn’t as much effort put into the voluntary blocking of child porn, such as exists in the UK or Norway, writes Aaron McKenna.
The Data Protection Commissioner had appealed a High Court ruling which had quashed an earlier decision to order Eircom to suspend it’s ‘three strikes and your out’ agreement with four music companies.
The enterprise minister says the rights of legal internet users are taken into account before any website can be blocked.
UPC, Imagine, Digiweb, Vodafone, Three and O2 have been given 30 days to block users’ access to the piracy website.
Sony, Warner Music and Universal have reached a deal with Baidu. Currently almost all of music downloads in China are illegal.