“Apple has signed a cloud-music licensing agreement with EMI Music and is very near to completing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, multiple music industry sources told CNET,” Greg Sandoval reports for CNET.
“Warner Music Group already had a deal in place with Apple, CNET reported last month,” Sandoval reports. “The licensing agreements will enable Apple to launch a fully licensed cloud-music service to rival unlicensed offerings of rivals Amazon and Google.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Rival?” Greg means “greatly surpass and utterly dominate.”
Sandoval reports, “The negotiations with Sony Music Group and Universal Music Group could be wrapped up as early as next week, the sources said. What this means is that signed contracts with all four of the top four record companies will be in Apple’s hip pocket on June 6 when Apple kicks off the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference.”
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Tease…
I won’t be convinced, until I hear the official takes of Dvorak, Bronfman and/or Enderle’s family pets on this.
Ahh hell no Tony you tell me right now what is going on because I am one of those people who read the spoiler alerts before I watch the movie
Tony Perkins – played Norman Bates in Psycho. 🙂
Tony, if you are for real, no offense, but then you would have heard the Norman Bates references all of your life.
Sure Apple doesn’t wake up with fleas after lying down with these dogs…
He’s bombed all the threads today, with no info whatsoever. I wouldn’t worry about it.