According to the website MediaPost Communications, Universal Music Group, which runs Universal Republic and Universal/Motown, is prohibiting MySpace from streaming entire songs of artists on its label. Instead, UMG is only permitting 90-second samples of songs to stream.
MediaPost reported today in its "Just an Online Minute" e-release/blog that UMG actually instituted this policy several months ago, but only now is the media finding out, thanks in part to Wired magazine.
Wired posted a note from Colbie Caillat, a California singer-songwriter who played Nov. 28 at Headliners Music Hall in Louisville, to her fans, in which she says: "Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have to swap the songs out on my page for 90 second versions instead of full length versions." Full versions are on her website.
Universal handles distribution for the local Label X/Toucan Cove (www.labelx.us). the label, which releases for local groups Digby, The Muckrakers, Peter Searcy and Code Red, says its artists are not affected by this decision.
UMG is in litigation with MySpace, which it is accusing of copyright infringement.—MH
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