Forty years ago Jac Holzman left a deep mark on popular music with the release of The Doors’ first album on his independent Elektra music label. Today he wants to do the same with Cordless Recordings. Holzman’s Cordless label is the first all-digital music label operated by a major record company, the Warner Music Group, launching Thursday on the Web …

For several years, most companies selling music online have had an overriding strategy: Follow Apple Computer’s iTunes in as many respects as possible. That now seems to be changing in at least one important way. In the past few weeks, several of the biggest digital music providers said they are moving portions or all of their services onto the Web, …

The new iMesh, launched last week as the first record label-approved file-swapping service, has a Led Zeppelin problem. Like its peers in the digital music business, from Napster to Apple Computer’s iTunes, iMesh does not have the legal rights to distribute recordings from the popular 1970s rockers. But using the company’s new service, it requires only a quick point and …