First sign of sanity for music industry's net strategy
The first sign of sanity in the music industry according to this News.com story:
Record label EMI Group has significantly loosened the reins on how its music can be distributed on the Internet, striking a set of deals that expand what consumers can legally do with EMI tunes accessed via an online service.
The label announced Wednesday that it has signed new distribution agreements with nine Net music companies, giving them the right to let customers make permanent downloads of songs, transfer songs to portable devices such as MP3 players and burn CDs of songs downloaded from the services. The names of the nine services are expected to be announced later in the day.