Music Industry Working with Legal Services for Growth

Music executives walked into this year's Midem conference beneath a giant banner promoting Napster, once the beleaguered industry's nemesis but now one of the services helping it turn a corner. Consumers are flocking to online music services in record numbers, and digital music made up about 1 percent of total industry revenues in 2004, and industry estimates expect it to double in 2005 and reach 25 percent within five years.