Thursday, March 31, 2011

Royalty disputes over music rights: Amazon's cloud services cause a stir

Amazon offers customers space on the company's own servers. The trick: Buy the MP3s online retailers, Amazon collects the files on your parallel Cloud Drive. They are present everywhere via a browser or special smartphone app to retrieve. This usage scenario now provides displeasure with the publishers.

It is not clear yet whether Amazon should negotiate the current licenses with the new rights holders. Amazon sees himself on the safe side, the cloud service is like an external hard drive of the customer to understand - even if it exists only virtually. Following that a license extension is obviously not necessary.


With the advance of the Amazons at the same time increasing pressure on rivals Google and Apple have similar services in the pipeline, but are still in licensing negotiations with the music industry.

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