Results tagged “musiccompanies”

Woah, we're not sure how it even plans to do this, but China's Ministry of Culture is apparently setting new rules to vet music sold online. Music sites, including Google and Baidu's mp3 divisions, will now be forced to seek approval from censors for all foreign songs they distribute. Besides having to provide written lyrics for each song, translated into Chinese, they'll also need to show documents proving they aren't infringing on copyrights. Google's free mp3 download service at least has the blessings of record companies so perhaps it won't be too hard for it to sail these waters, but we wonder if this will become the storm that sinks Baidu. Source: Wall Street Journal

Emma Ticketmaster - the group that brought us Avril Lavigne, failed to bring us Oasis, and then made up for it with one night with John Legend - is now dead. According to China Music Radar, President & CEO of Emma Entertainment John Krane resigned yesterday with Debbie Shon of Ticketmaster taking his place. From the Ticketmaster press release, it seems like all the big Emma events are still on (Harlem Globetrotters, One Festival), but the demise of yet another promotion company underscores the difficulties of bringing top line acts to China and deserves a moment of silence... Okay. You can go about your day now.