Publically, Amazon wants you to think it doesn’t care about licensing the music that it’ll permit you to store within the cloud , but privately we’re hearing the corporate is scrambling like mad to work things out with angry music labels at present. Specifically, the Wall Street Journal cites a couple of anonymous sources who say Amazon’s actually negotiating deals with the four major labels straight away — though Amazon won’t confirm this type of thing — which the e-tailer hopes to shut in a question of weeks. What’s more, they are saying Amazon may move to an system that compares users’ uploaded songs with a database of these tunes it’s managed to licence should the deal suffer — a system similar to Sony’s Music Unlimited , by the sound of it. It shouldn’t come as any surprise, then, that the Journal quotes Sony Music chairman Martin Bandier in its final paragraph, who makes his pointed indignation at Amazon’s announcement heard:
“That is just another land grab. i’m able to’t make it any plainer than that. It’s really disrespectful, and naturally we’re considering all of our options.”
Nothing like just a little of mainstream media coverage to aid pressure a business deal.
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