DRM-Free

- DRM-Free Digital Music Initiative for consumer brand, loyalty and incentive programs
- EMI Canada becomes first label to use Hip Digital’s CMS engine

LONDON, 1st October 2007 -- ilovevideo today announced it has launched the first DRM-free (Digital Rights Management-free) music video retail store. Brought to you by the creators of the award-winning music portal Video-C, ilovevideo offers consumers ownership of high quality music videos for playback via handheld devices, Macs, PCs and media centres.    » read more »

With the addition of EMI Music's digital repertoire, Weltbild.de now offers Germany's largest catalogue of higher quality, DRM-free MP3 tracks

1 October 2007 -- German online retailer Weltbild-download.de has added EMI’s premium quality, downloads, which come without Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions, to its music catalogue. The tracks are available as 320kb/s MP3 files and are on sale now.    » read more »

Amazon.com launches public beta of Amazon MP3, a digital music store offering customers earth's biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads

LONDON, September 20, 2007 –- 24-7 Entertainment, Europe’s leading B2B digital music provider announced today that it has made EMI Music’s higher quality DRM-free catalogue available to its extensive network of digital store partners. The first retailer in 24-7’s network to release EMI’s DRM-free catalogue was Weltbild, one of Germany’s largest online media retailers, followed by online music giant, CDON, in the Nordic region. Other partners are scheduled to follow shortly    » read more »