EMI in talks to join Nokia's Comes With Music

Major label EMI expressed its eagerness to join Nokia's all-you-can-eat Comes With Music [1] mobile service, indicating negotiations with the handset giant are already underway. "We want to be part of it," said EMI Finland head Wemppa Koivumaki during a Wednesday news conference. "I believe strongly that when it launches we will be there, with a full offering." Nokia plans to launch the Comes With Music program in the second half of 2008--the initiative will enable consumers to not only purchase a year of unlimited music downloads via mobile handsets bundled with its Ovi web services platform but keep all the music they download even if they choose against continuing their premium subscription. At present, Universal Music Group is the only major record label officially signed to provide Comes With Music content.

For more on the Nokia/EMI talks:
- read this Electronista article [2]

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