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The Great Digital Sales Experiment

Are digital album promos setting a new precedent for music consumption?

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Bryan Reesman

On May 23 and May 26 Amazon offered digital downloads of Lady Gaga's new album Born This Way for 99 cents, presumably in an effort to draw attention to its new Cloud Drive music service, which offers customers who purchase an album 20 gigabytes of free storage space.


ArtsWatch: Carlin's Last Laugh

Appeals court strikes down FCC's broadcast indecency policy for being too vague

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Philip Merrill

The Recording Academy actively represents the music community on such issues as intellectual property rights, music piracy, archiving and preservation, and censorship concerns. In pursuing its commitment to addressing these and other issues, The Recording Academy undertakes a variety of national initiatives.