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Euro iTunes Store Delayed

Posted by pudge on from the there-is-no-good-music-in-europe-anyway dept.

pnjman writes "Due to the record labels being unable to agree licencing issues, the European iTunes music store has been put back until at least next year."

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  1. Or Just In Case You Decide On Accuracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article doesn't know when it's going to happen.

    After Spetmeber is the msot definite term used.

    It "MAY" be sometime next year.

    Lot different than "at least next year." Makes it sound lik it's two years away or something.

  2. What about a Canadian store? by Drakonian · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably not a priority - it took FOREVER to get a Canadian Apple Store.

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    1. Re:What about a Canadian store? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      It has similar licensing rules to the US

      No it doesn't. In the U.S., the label only has to get permission from one publishing company to sell a track online. In Canada, the labels have to get permission from several publishing companies for each track. This is probably the main reason there isn't an iTunes canada store yet.

      Posting Anonymously because even though IANARL (I am not a record label), I do work for one and I don't want anyone confusing what I'm saying and mistakeningly thinking I'm representing the label....

  3. Re:Reading the article... by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Informative
    Copyright is more than financial, and the EU hasn't yet achieved a single-financial state of being. Britain, for instance, doesn't even share the same currency as its neighbours, which is fairly specific.

    More to the point there are as many, if not more, legal systems in Europe as there are countries. That, when it comes to copyright, is a much bigger issue than the financial union, even if moves towards economic union inevitably infringe on some of these issues. Contracts signed in one country usually have no bearing on any others unless the artists and publishers have specifically negotiated the contract that way. You can't, in the US, sell exclusive rights to a copyrighted work to one company in Virginia and another in Florida, but you can in different parts of Europe.

    Long term I don't doubt the borders will be blurred. But Apple has made the mistake of believing that those borders are already blurred enough, and they're not, and the EU is still very much a union of seperate countries: the commonalities are still very much the exceptions, not the rule.

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