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Companies Come Together to Smooth Download Business

9. May 2006, 18:51 Uhradmin

Companies and organisations involved in digital music have come together to form a new standards body, the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX). All the big players have signed up for the new body.The likes of EMI Music, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and music rights societies from the US, UK and Spain represent the music industry, while Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks represent the data services side of the equation when it comes to delivering digital music.

The aim of DDEX is to ‘develop and encourage the adoption of voluntary standards to improve the current exchange of data between companies operating in the digital music business’.

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