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| Music in the News
Thursday 04 October 2001
Vocabulary from the world of music. Listen to and read the story then find explanations of difficult words below.
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EMI to share music with online rival
Summary: The music production giant EMI is to license its artists' catalogue to rival online file-sharing service Pressplay, as well as its own service, MusicNet. The deal is the industry's attempt to attract people away from the unofficial music download services.
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| | | The deal sees the first of the big five record companies giving permission for both services to distribute its music. Both services are expected to launch before the end of the year as rivals to Napster, which has been out of action since July due to legal wranglings.
MusicNet is the joint venture between BMG, EMI and Warner. Pressplay is backed by Sony and Universal, who have so far promised their catalogues to it exclusively.
MusicNet and Pressplay are the industry's attempt to attract people away from the unofficial music download services which have sprung up since Napster's decision to develop a paid-for service. It is now thought other companies will follow suit and license catalogues to both services.
Artists in the EMI stable include David Bowie, Radiohead and Kylie Minogue.
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| | The Words | |
| | | to launch
to open for business, to become operational
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| | | rivals
your rivals are people, businesses or organisations who you are competing with in the same area of activity
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| | | out of action
if something is out of action, it doesn't work
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| | | legal wranglings
lengthy disputes that relate to the law
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| | | joint venture
a new project or business set up by more than one company
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| | | backed
supported and/or financed
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| | | exclusively
here - only to Pressplay, and no one else
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| | | sprung up
suddenly appeared
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| | | follow suit
if you follow suit, you do the same thing that someone else has just done
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| | | in the EMI stable
managed and promoted by EMI
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