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Friday, 5 September 2008

U.K.'s PRS wins Buma case

Court blocks Pan-European license

LONDON -- U.K. collecting society the Performing Right Society has a won a court font to forbid its Dutch equivalent, Buma, from issuance an unauthorized pan-European licence for online rights.

Buma proclaimed on July 19 that it had issued such a license to online music provider Beatport, claiming it covered worldwide repertory including that controlled by PRS. However, the Dutch society is not authorised to include PRS repertory outside the Netherlands in any multiterritory license.

PRS filed a cause with a Dutch court and in a ruling Monday, the judge ordered Buma to refrain from granting licenses that offered the manipulation of PRS artists' work outside of the Netherlands. He base Buma offered "no convincing arguments" of its case.

"We are discomfited that Buma decided to act in the elbow room it did but pleased that the judge has upheld the contract footing between PRS and Buma, confirming that no society can event licenses without the verbalize agreement of the early," Karen Buse, managing director of international for the MCPS-PRS Alliance, said in a statement.

"PRS welcomes fair and levelheaded competition for members crossways Europe and we look forward to working with all ingathering societies in the next to provide the best possible service to songwriters and music publishers.

"We shall also cover to mesh our own successful and legal Pan-European licensing dodge; making it easy and efficient for online medicine services crosswise Europe to access the music they need to support and grow their businesses."

The verdict follows a European Commission ruling last month, which stated that CISAC, the umbrella trade group for performing right societies, moldiness remove all obstacles clogging the pan-European licensing system after losing its struggle with European regulators.

The Brussels-based commission described its opinion as "an antitrust decision prohibiting societies from restricting competition," and called for the surcease of territorial restrictions that prevent a collecting society from offering licenses to commercial users outside their domestic territory.

In response, CISAC said the ruling will lead to "catastrophic fragmentation of repertoire."

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Asthma In Boys May Be Just A Phase, But For Girls It May Be There To Stay

�Boys may be more apt than girls to have childhood asthma, simply, when compared to girls, they ar also more likely to grow

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Square One

Artist: Square One

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Wukker Man

Year: 2004
Tracks: 1

Netball Girls

Year: 2004
Tracks: 1

Eastenders - Brooke Kinsella Remembers Beautiful Brother

Friday, 27 June 2008

Mireille Mathieu

Artist: Mireille Mathieu

   Genre(s):
Chanson

Discography:

De Tes Mains

Year: 2002
Tracks: 11

Grand Collection

Year: 2001
Tracks: 16

Ciao Bambino Sorry (CD 2)

Year: 2001
Tracks: 15

Ciao Bambino Sorry (CD 1)

Year: 2001
Tracks: 15

Son Grand Numero (CD 2)

Year: 2000
Tracks: 20

Son Grand Numero (CD 1)

Year: 2000
Tracks: 20

Mes Plus Belles Chansons D'Amour

Year: 1997
Tracks: 15

Carrere

Year: 1991
Tracks: 10

French chanteuse Mireille Mathieu is classically known for her illustrious French crooning during the '60s and '70s. Born into a stone doL family unit of 14 children, Mathieu arrived July 22, 1946, in Avignon, France, and as a child she saved her money from working in the manufactory so she could make up for tattle lessons. In the early '60s, French pop vocaliser Johnny Hallyday's managing director Johnny Stark noticed Mathieu's enchanting vocalic beauty and later reinforced her into her possess ace with the classical urchin hairstyle and loud, vibrant costumes. She was promptly hailed as the adjacent Edith Piaf and her 1965 performance move at the Paris Olympia sparked her transcription relationship with Barclay Records. Singles such as "Mon Credo," "C'est Ton Nom," and "Qu'elle Est Belle" made Mathieu an external star in Europe patch achieving meek achiever in the Americas, only her spread over of Englebert Humperdinck's "The Last Waltz" was an telling French rendition that made her shock charts in Britain. Humperdinck returned the favour by choosing to let the cat out of the bag Mathieu's "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize."

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Spears Fools Paparazzi

Jamie Lynn Spears left hospital on Saturday with a cunning plan to outsmart the waiting paparazzi - using a decoy to give her a snapper-free exit. The 17-year-old gave birth to her first child, Maddie Briann, on Thursday at Mississippi Southwest Regional Medical Center in McComb, Mississippi. And according to America's OK magazine, when the Zoey 101 star was due to be discharged, she reportedly hired a look-a-like to be driven back to her parents' home in Kentwood, Louisiana. The decoy joined new dad Casey Aldridge, and Spears' parents Lynn and Jamie, while the actress slipped out the back entrance, with her daughter, to a car and a police escort waiting to take her to Serenity, Mississippi, where she shares a home with her fiance Aldridge. The teen star stunned the Spears family when she announced her pregnancy news last year , at the age of 16. The couple had reportedly been delaying their wedding until after the birth of their first child.

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