Digital Freedom Campaign Applauds EMI's Decision to Sell DRM-Free Music
Posted on: Monday, 2 April 2007, 15:00 CDT
WASHINGTON, April 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Digital Freedom Campaign (DFC) today praised EMI for its decision to make a significant amount of its music catalog available without anticopying digital rights management software that prevents consumers from transporting legally downloaded music from one device to another.
"EMI's decision to make its music catalogue available to its customers without mandatory digital rights management (DRM) software is a significant sign of progress and reflects what a new generation of consumers demands," Jake Ward, a spokesperson for the DFC said. "While the digital age allows consumers unprecedented access to content, the inclusion of DRM complicates the consumer experience and hinders innovation and progress. With this announcement today, EMI has set a new standard for the industry that focuses on the customer's wishes. We hope other content companies will follow EMI's lead."
The London based EMI Group PLC is the third largest music company by sales in the world.
The Digital Freedom Campaign is a national effort to defend the rights of artists and consumers to use new digital technologies. The campaign, which includes organizations such as CEA, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Media Access Project, Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), Be The Media, New America Foundation, National Video Resources and FreeNetworks.org, as well as more than 150 artists and labels, works to oppose measures designed to place crippling restrictions or impose excessive fees on technologies that allow individuals to lawfully enjoy and create lawfully music, video and other content.
For information about the Digital Freedom campaign, visit http://www.digitalfreedom.org/.
Digital Freedom
CONTACT: Jake Ward, +1-202-448-3156, jward@qorvis.com, for DigitalFreedom
Web site: http://www.digitalfreedom.org/
Source: PRNewswire-USNewswire
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