In the land of ones and zeroes, it’s consumers 1, Sony BMG 0. The music giant agreed Tuesday to cease embedding compact discs with digital rights management software that limited the number of copies ...

Sony BMG has discovered the hidden costs of digital rights management. By Carl DiOrio, The Associated Press Sony BMG has discovered the hidden costs of digital rights management. In a settlement that ...

Sony BMG Music Entertainment, feeling the legal heat over the copy-protection software in millions of its music CDs, last week was sued in both Texas and California. By exploiting a hole in the copy ...

Sony BMG plans to join the crowded pool of digital music services by launching its own music subscription service... sometime. Sony BMG CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz said that the service would allow ...

Sony completed its buyout of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in their joint music label Sony BMG on Tuesday, but the deal's tricky math had the companies and observers touting different price tags. By Georg ...

Sony and BMG wanted to make one thing clear after the European Union and the Federal Trade Commission approved their merger: They’re artist-friendly. Whether that remains true after 2,000 jobs are cut ...

TOKYO – Sony BMG will start selling music downloads in the copy-protection-free MP3 format later this month in North America, as even the last holdout among the major record labels crumbled to the ...

German media group Bertelsmann plans to sell its 50 percent stake in music company Sony BMG and its wholly owned music publishing arm to avoid a stock market listing, newspapers reported on Monday.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Sunday that it had appointed Tim Bowen as chief operating officer. Bowen previously oversaw much of the non-U.S. operations of Sony BMG, the nation’s second-largest ...

Sony BMG is no stranger to piracy. As one of the most vocal supporters of the RIAA and IFPI antipiracy efforts, the company has some experience hunting down and punishing consumers who don't pay for ...

Sony BMG, the parent company of labels like Columbia, Epic, RCA, and Arista, teamed with mobile content provider Thumbplay today in a move that will make more than 7,000 Sony songs available on ...

Commentary--Sony BMG Music Entertainment, feeling the legal heat over the copy-protection software in millions of its music CDs, last week was sued in both Texas and California. By exploiting a hole ...