XM, Warner Settle on Multi-Year Deal

By Geoff Duncan
December 24, 2007

XM Satellite Radio has settled with another music label over receivers that can store broadcast music, this time getting a multi-year deal with Warner Music.

XM Satellite Radio has reached a settlement with Warner Music Group which sets up a multi-year deal that will enable XM listeners (and, if the merger goes through, perhaps Sirius customers) to record music from Warner Music Group artists on XM devices. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The recording industry had sued the satellite radio operator back in 2006 over the Pioneer Inno, a portable receiver which can record tup to 50 hours of XM programming for later listening. Music distributors argued that the licenses granted to XM were for broadcast only, and did not include the right to enable customers to make recordings of the media.

Warner Music Group's settlement with XM is the second deal with a major music ...

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