{"id":35264,"date":"2015-06-10T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.aws.dancingastronaut.com\/?p=212936"},"modified":"2015-06-10T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:03:24","slug":"apple-and-major-labels-face-anti-trust-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=35264","title":{"rendered":"Apple and major labels face anti-trust accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a\nrel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/\">Dancing Astronaut - EDM, trap, techno, deep house, dubstep<\/a><\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/apple\/\">Apple<\/a> and the three major record labels\u00a0are being investigated by the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut in response to recent negotiations between the tech giant and music companies. Eric T. Schneiderman, attorney general of NY, and George Jepsen, attorney general of CT,\u00a0suspects that Apple may have either pressured said labels to abandon &#8220;freemium&#8221; services such as Spotify, or that they conspired with Apple and each other to do so &#8211; both clear violations of antitrust law.<\/p><p>Universal Music has since responded to the antitrust inquiry, saying that it \u201cshares the attorneys general\u2019s commitment to a robust and competitive market for music streaming services in the mutual best interest of consumers, artists, services and content companies alike \u2014 and we have a long track record to that effect.\u201d<\/p><p>Apple declined to comment, though this is not the first occasion it has been under fire for violating antitrust law. In 2013, it colluded with book publishers to raise e-book prices above Amazon&#8217;s usual $9.99 cap for digital books. Thus,\u00a0Schneiderman and Jepsen, who were both involved in 2013&#8242;s case, are preemptively investigating the terms of Apple&#8217;s latest music service before Apple Music goes on the market to consumers at the end of June.<\/p><p><em>Via:\u00a0<\/em><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/10\/technology\/2-states-look-for-collusion-between-apple-music-and-major-labels.html?_r=1\">NY Times<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Rad More:<\/strong><\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/06\/apple-streaming-service-seeks-celebrity-claim-drake-pharrell-david-guetta\/\">Apple streaming service seeks celebrity claim over Drake, Pharrell, and David Guetta<\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/05\/apple-music-beats-release-june\/\">Apple\u2019s new Beats-based streaming service to launch next month<\/a><\/p><p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/05\/warner-music-group-streaming-milestone-streaming-revenue-trumps-downloads\/\">Warner Music Group achieves streaming music milestone<\/a><\/p><p><a\nrel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/06\/apple-major-labels-face-heat-collusion\/\">Apple and major labels face anti-trust accusations<\/a> was posted by <a\nrel=\"nofollow\" rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/author\/erenck\/\">Lizzie Renck<\/a>, and appeared first on <a\nrel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/\">Dancing Astronaut<\/a>.<\/p> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DancingAstronaut\/~4\/Avj7eyk0LrQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/out\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/']);\" rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/\">Dancing Astronaut &#8211; EDM, trap, techno, deep house, dubstep<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple and major labels are under investigation for possible collusion.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/out\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/06\/apple-major-labels-face-heat-collusion\/']);\" rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/2015\/06\/apple-major-labels-face-heat-collusion\/\">Apple and major labels face anti-trust accusations<\/a> was posted by <a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/out\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/author\/erenck\/']);\" rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/author\/erenck\/\">Lizzie Renck<\/a>, and appeared first on <a onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/out\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/']);\" rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingastronaut.com\/\">Dancing Astronaut<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35265,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35264\/revisions\/35265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}