Apple is working on music streaming service - and is held back by Sony
The Internet radio music from Apple is delayed due to difficult negotiations with the music publishing rights Sony / ATV. Whose boss Martin Bandier told the New York Times over the weekend that he would achieve better royalties for artists. "We want the service. We just want to be paid fairly." The statements by the influential music manager are also the first confirmation that Apple is working at all on such a streaming service.
Sony / ATV managing the rights for current stars such as Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, but also songs by old masters such as the Beatles and Beach Boys. The company is owned by the Japanese electronics giant Sony and the estate of Michael Jackson. In summer, they swallowed the publishing division of the battered British music company EMI.
The Wall Street Journal had a few weeks ago for the first time reported on Apple's plans for an internet radio and also limited, because of the rights that negotiations for months could pass before a start. Apple with its iTunes online platform of the world's largest music seller. However, now more and more streaming music on the rise. There are, on the one subscription services like Spotify or Rdio, which can fully for a monthly fee to listen to music. Such a service have Apple also considered, but rejected the idea, wrote the Wall Street Journal. Another model is free Internet radio stations like Pandora (only available in the U.S.) or last.fm, in which the user must follow a playlist generated by the transmitter, and the individual songs and their order can not pick and choose. The services create playlists instead to music genres and preferences of individual users.
The Apple service advertising should be displayed to the music, it said. He should run on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads, and possibly on Windows PCs. According to the New York Post, Apple aims at a more flexible license with more uses than about at Pandora. Even the first report in the Wall Street Journal had let the share price collapse of Pandora.
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