{"id":1269,"date":"2003-06-06T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/06\/apple-woos-indie-labels-for-itms\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:05:03","slug":"apple-woos-indie-labels-for-itms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/06\/apple-woos-indie-labels-for-itms\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple woos indie labels for iTMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14456,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/music&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20211018172247\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/music\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/music&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 10:43:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 15:16:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 04:46:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 14:24:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 14:24:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14457,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cdbaby.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/cdbaby.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14458,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gnutellanews.com\\\/article\\\/6830&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gnutellaforums.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>After the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/music\/\" title=\"Music\">iTunes Music Store<\/a> opened, there were two recurring comments from much of the Mac world: why was it US only, and what about independent labels? It&#8217;s commonly accepted that the intricacies of international copyright law are most likely what&#8217;s restricting the iTMS to the US for now, but aside from a few rumors, the question of whether the store would open up to more than just the major labels was still unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, however, Apple hosted a special invitation only event for independent and smaller music labels, giving them information on how they could join with the iTMS. A representative from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/\" title=\"CDBaby\">CDBaby<\/a> was at the event, and has posted an extremely interesting rundown of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnutellanews.com\/article\/6830\" title=\"indy music\">Apple&#8217;s offer to indy labels<\/a>, mixed in with a lot of information about the iTMS system.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting reading, even just for the peeks into how Apple is handling all the behind-the-scenes details of the iTMS. From what I can see, I think this is just going to keep getting better and better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Apple hosted a special invitation only event for independent and smaller music labels, giving them information on how they could join with the iTMS. A representative from CDBaby was at the event, and has posted an extremely interesting rundown of Apple&#8217;s offer to indy labels, mixed in with a lot of information about the iTMS system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2035],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-music","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}