ASCAP Tries To Qualify Digital Downloads As Performances

Online Music Stores Protest ASCAP’s Idiotic Money Grab Apple, AOL, and Yahoo! have battled against an effort to qualify paid downloads as a public performance. The group, represented by the Digital Media Association (DiMA) filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief opposing a claim by ASCAP that digital music downloads should be counted as performances. This May, ASCAP will try to convince a federal court that the...

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MySpace Vixen Tila Tequila Releases Lil Jon Produced Single On iTunes

The question: is having a lot of friends on MySpace better than a record deal? MySpace vixen Tila Tequila became well-known last year for having 1.7 million friends on the social networking site. Now she’s trying to parlay that popularity into a music career with a do-it-yourself game plan. Her raunchy single “I Love U,” which was produced by producer/rapper Lil Jon, has been released on iTunes without the aid of a...

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