Warner Music Group

YouTube, Warner Music Strike Deal To Bring Back Music Videos

businessinsider.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Technology


Warner Music Group has completed a deal with YouTube (GOOG) that will bring back music videos for Green Day, U2, Madonna and other artists to the vide...

Court To Record Labels: Your "Rules" About Reselling Promotional CDs Are Bogus

Tony Sachs | Posted 06.21.2008 | Business


Tony Sachs

If record companies really expect these people to not sell their freebies online or to used record stores, then they're even stupider than they seem.

Warner Music Group Losses Widen, Suspends Dividend

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business


LOS ANGELES — Warner Music Group Corp., whose artists include R.E.M., Madonna and Green Day, said Thursday that higher costs and a shift to digi...

Bronfman: Incompetent Or Misunderstood?

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


For a brief, shining moment, Edgar Bronfman Jr. had redeemed himself. It was 2006, and Mr. Bronfman, the bearded scion of the Seagrams, seemed to hav...

Bronfman Flips Fifth Avenue Apartment

New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Private equity bosses are constantly fighting off criticism that they are "flippers," buying companies and quickly selling them for a profit without a...

How Frank Sinatra Earned $50 Million From The Grave

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Who says the music business doesn't pay? Warner Music Group cut a check for $50 million dollars to Frank Sinatra last year -- and the Chairman's been ...

Warner Agrees To Sell Music Without Copy Protection On Amazon

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Warner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tun...

More Music Layoffs: A Dozen At DefJam

Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Unfortunately for employees at big music labels, it looks as if we're going to be hearing this refrain for a while: Universal Music Group's Island Def...

Warner Music To Mobile Biz: Help, Please!

Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Our fellow blog pundits are having a laugh at Warner Music Group's Edgar Bronfman Jr. today, based on a speech he delivered yesterday at a wireless co...