MUSIC INDUSTRY QUESTIONS BACH AND BEETHOVEN BBC DOWNLOADS

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- There will be no encore performance of
downloading when the British Broadcasting Corp. kicks off a 10-day Bach
extravaganza on its BBC Radio 3 Web site next month. Complaints by the
music industry have been heard.

The BBC entered into talks with music companies after a June
programming venture made Beethoven symphonies available for download at
no cost: 1.4 million files were grabbed. An equivalent commercial CD
would take "upwards of five years" to achieve the same kind of sales
figures, record company executives told the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper.

During 10 days of Bach programming, beginning Dec. 16, the BBC is
considering offering only parts of the composer's work for download.
"Nothing will happen without consultation (with the music companies)
and, should it happen, it will be nothing on the scale of Beethoven," a
BBC spokeswoman said.



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