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Our Amazonian mestizo guide Frederico partaking in the catching of piranhas in the Amazon Rainforest on the Rio Negro .
Trees grow in the water along the flooded bank of a tributary of the Amazon River in the Jacaré indigenous community near Autazes, Brazil.
Low water levels means we can walk across parts of the river. In the Amazon with Yoi EcoTours: www.yoiecotours.com/
Me, my family and some friends went to Amazon and some other parts of Brasil for 2 weeks. We visited a tribe in the Amazon and I drew this plant they grew there, they smashed the seeds inside and made ink to paint their bodies.
In Amazon Chakra, farmers grow a wide variety of crops to support their food sovereignty. Farming, hunting, fishing and picking edible and non-edible products from the Amazon forest are part of the daily life of the local communities.
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Children walk on canoes moored on the bank of the Amazon River near Murutinga, Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
Naiamara dos Santos (left) helps her daughter, Pamela Oliveira Cordeleiro, 2, off the family's motorboat to visit doctors aboard the John Wesley medical boat that has pulled ashore in the Jacaré indigenous community near Autazes, Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
Normally I pride myself on not taking any notice when ads for things I've contemplated buying turn up on my screen, but in this case I had been sorely tempted, and eventually gave in.
Like commuters everywhere, passengers on the Amazon River near Murutinga, Brazil, check their cell phones. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
A boy turns a back flip along the banks of the Amazon River near Murutinga, Brazil. The boat in the background is for carrying livestock. Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
United Methodist missionary Emily Everett (left) reacts to a baby jacaré caiman displayed by boat pilot Izaias de Molvaol at a floating home on the Amazon River near Autazes, Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
Sunrise along the Javari river in the Amazon region in Peru, near the Brazil/Colombia border.
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Amazon plans to introduce a limited music streaming feature as early as Thursday, according to several people briefed on its plans.
The new feature, which has been rumored in the music industry for months, will give subscribers to Amazon’s Prime service access to thousands of songs free and without interruptions from advertising. But it will omit most new releases, and will not include the catalog of the Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Amazon, already one of the biggest retailers of music downloads, is adding the streaming feature as a sweetener for its Prime customers, whose annual subscription fee was recently raised to $99 from $79. Prime subscribers get free shipping on orders and other perks like free access to some movies and television shows. The new music feature will offer a wide but limited selection of titles, and for the most part will not include current hits.
An Amazon spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief of Amazon, which has some 20 million Prime subscribers who would get the new music service. Credit Victoria Bonn-Meuser/European Pressphoto Agency
Licensing negotiations with record labels and music publishers began about six months ago, but were slowed by disagreements over financial terms that many music companies considered low.
Amazon told most small labels that in exchange for one-year licensing agreements they would be offered shares of a $5 million royalty pool, to be divided by a market-share formula of Amazon’s choosing, said two people who were involved in the negotiations. Bigger labels and distributors were offered larger one-time payments for a year of access to certain titles. Amazon initially offered a total of about $25 million in these fees, but it was unclear whether the figure changed in negotiations.
Sony and Warner Music, two of the three major labels, have signed such deals. But Universal, whose catalog includes stars like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Kanye West, did not reach an agreement with Amazon.
After Amazon’s proposed contracts for songwriting rights were rejected by many music publishers, the company used an outside firm to obtain “compulsory” licenses through federal copyright provisions. That process is common, but implies that Amazon may make more limited use of songs than it had originally contemplated.
With a relatively small catalog, Amazon’s service is not seen as a major threat to companies like Spotify, Rhapsody and Beats, which offer millions of songs. But Amazon’s sheer size gives it a big advantage. The company recently announced that it had 244 million active customer accounts, and it is estimated to have more than 20 million Prime subscribers.
Amazon’s scale may help it reach the millions of casual music consumers who have remained hesitant to sign up for any streaming service. Those consumers are a big concern for the music industry as the streaming market matures and gradually replaces CDs and downloads as the way most people listen to music.
Reference URL: www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/business/media/amazon-said-to-...