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Older and Wiser Music Firms Think It's Time to Settle Down: Following the $10.5 billion-plus acquisition of PolyGram NV by Universal Studios parent Seagram Co. in the late 1990s, the remaining top music rivals have been taking a spin on the dance with a partner here, a partner there, but no marriages have been consummated - until recently. After years of playing the field, they're now starting to settle down

Are your workers guilty of pillaging and pirating the music industry? As the battle for copyright infringement wages on, the music industry is sparing no punches. The effects of this crusade may have implications for the workplace given that many of these "freeloaders" may be employees who use corporate resources to commit their crimes.

Retail Marketers and Music Artists Unite! It is no secret that the record industry has suffered over the past few years as a result of slumping CD sales, illegal music sharing, and the challenge of competing for radio airplay within rigid programming formats. For recording artists the ideal audience for their music can fit right in with the lifestyle brand of a national retail chain.

Techno's edge: Today one genre of music, generally known as techno, is breaking down frontiers - musical and geographical - faster than you can shake a glow stick. The music's rhythmic framework allows an electronic music producer to innovate new music by simply overlaying or intertwining rhythms or samples of virtually any origin.

The evolution of the music industry: The shift to digital technology is a profound change from today's music industry because record companies currently profit by selling music as a hard good and not as a service. They get paid by selling discs, not musical experiences. But this business model is only perhaps 150 years old.