Google and Discordant Music
December 11, 2010
Gobble. Gobble.
Black Friday has come and gone, and Google’s music service is still not off the ground. “Delays Dog Google’s Digital Music Service” reports that major music labels are balking at Google’s planned cloud-based “digital locker” service admit fears that users will also store pirated music there.
The article says that “Google wants to sign wide-ranging deals that give it streaming permission for the locker service alongside rights for a music download store tied to its search engine,” but the labels aren’t ready to sign on for the downloads until their fears about the locker service are assuaged. Ad revenues are also not yet set as the labels question how artists will be compensated.
If Google had made a deal with Catch Media, would some of these rich media problems have been fixed? Despite these issues, all the players seem optimistic that the service will be available sometime in 2011.
Google’s solution may involve buying more companies like Wildvine, the outfit that provides DRM to Netflix and Best Buy. Details of this acquisition are here.
Alice Wasielewski, December 11, 2010
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