“Earlier this week Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, returned from sick leave to announce the company’s new cloud storage service, iCloud,” Emma Barnett reports for The Telegraph.
“However, the music storage part of the iCloud, due to launch in the US around September time, will not be coming to the UK until at least quarter one of 2012,” Barnett reports. “A spokesman for the Performing Right Society (PRS), which ensures that composers, songwriters and music publishers are paid for their work, told The Telegraph, that negotiations with Apple about ensuring rights in the UK had started but were at a ‘very early stage.'”
Barnett reports, “A music executive at one of the major record labels, who wished to remain unnamed, said: ‘Tentative talks have begun between the major labels and Apple in the UK. However, all talks are at the really early stages and no one expects to see the cloud music service live on this side of the pond until 2012.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
The shortsightedness of record executives beggars the imagination. Not only are they churning out plastic bands but they have a tendency of extending their grasping fingers for short term gains at the expense of the consumer. It’s little wonder that torrent sites are thriving when legitimate sources are denied to the customer.
Agree; I personally would buy hundreds dollar worth of music, and many more hundreds dollar worth of videos. And there is community in my country lots of people like me. Both music and cinema industry gets crazy money unearned/lost because they do not allow their content to be sold here officially.
Worldwide, I would say that the industry loses possibly billions of dollars yearly because of that stupidity.
+1000000
There are so many bands whose music I can’t buy here. Why do they insist on turning away buyers? Do they not realize how much money they’re leaving on the table by persisting with their balkanized, artificial global divisions?
No cloud where the sun never sets…
Been to GB many times (love it). They have enough clouds already.
I would guess that the PRS and the labels have known about this for some time but are just prevaricating as usual. Yet another bargaining chip thrown down while the real losers, the artists, are not getting their piece of the action.
@Spark – yes you’re right but this year the weather has been pretty good in my part of the country………. very strange!
This pretty good weather bring to you by “La Niña” and “Global Warming”
Every country has to negotiate separately.
Canada should join the fun in January too. January 2015.
And Japan?
there are any number of ways for foreigners to create a US account.