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...critic and longtime resident of Japan: "There's no reason for a Yellow Peril scare. The Japanese just want to milk the cows and pull in the profits that they know these studios create." Matsushita hopes to put half a century's worth of MCA creative output into new CDs, videotapes, laser discs and other formats. Besides producing movies and TV shows, MCA makes records by such heavy hitters as Elton John, Bobby Brown, Tom Petty and Fine Young Cannibals...
While the machines have been sold in Europe and Japan for more than two years, the U.S. debut has been delayed by controversy. Reason: the recorders can produce flawless copies of CDs, which has raised fears in the music industry of a surge in illegal "pirate" tapes. Sony and other electronics manufacturers have agreed to equip their DAT recorders with special circuitry to prevent the machines from making multiple copies of the same tape, but many record companies and artists want Congress to write this agreement into...
...made East Germany (pop. 16.6 million) particularly attractive to Western companies. The investors include Pilz, a West German audio firm that is building a compact- disc plant as part of a $140 million venture with East Germany's Robotron. The factory will have the capacity to press 24 million CDs a year when it opens...
...back to life. With revolutionary speed, music lovers are replacing their favorite old scratched-up 45s and 33s with shiny compact discs. The complete works of almost all major artists, from Rachmaninoff to the Rolling Stones, are being released in the new format. At up to $18 a pop, CDs are costly, but the tones they produce are astonishingly crisp and clear. Pressed between CDs and cassette tapes, the venerable vinyl long-playing record is being relegated to memory lane...
...CDS attorney James Rafferty said the school will file counter-claims and seek damages because the suit is depriving it of potential revenue. The school cannot expand its curriculum while Brooks' suit is under consideration...