Project Playlist in Sony BMG licensing deal

December 22, 2008 Project Playlist allows users to upload music to create playlists that other users can then stream, but until the Sony BMG deal has done so without paying labels a licensing fee. Per our policy of taking very seriously the requests of rights holders to block access to third party sites that are believed to be infringing, we have evaluated the requests of the major music companies and determined that it is in our best interest not to allow Project Playlist widgets on MySpace, and effective immediately, we will no longer be allowing these widgets within the MySpace platform. If the music industry truly wants digital distribution to make up for falling CD sales, it needs to stop treating retail CDs as its primary revenue generator by this time next year, according to a recent Gartner research report.

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