Warner Music has hit out at Apple CEO Steve Jobs’
proposal
to get rid of copyright protection on music downloads, claiming it is “without
logic or merit”.
Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr, said there is no chance Warner is considering
dropping
Digital Rights
Management (DRM) copyright protection measures on its downloads.
He was speaking at yesterday’s first quarter financials announcement, which
saw Warner’s net income plummet by 74 per cent to $18m (£9.25m), from $69m. The
only bright spot for Warner was digital music sales, with revenues up 45 per
cent to $100m, against $69m for the same period in 2006.
“We advocate the continued use of [DRM] in the protection of our and our
artists' intellectual property,” Bronfman said. “The notion that music does not
deserve the same protections as software, television, films, video games, or
other intellectual property, simply because there is an unprotected legacy
product available in the physical world [the CD], is completely without logic or
merit.”
Warner is one of the ‘big four’ music publishers, alongside Universal, EMI
and Sony BMG. Earlier this week Jobs called for an end to DRM in an essay
entitled ‘Thoughts on Music’. He said since DRM failed to prevent music piracy,
it should be dumped.
The whole issue of DRM is set to get very interesting in the coming weeks as
Apple has to renegotiate its music licensing deals for iTunes with Warner and
the others.
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