Today’s headlines, December 01
Tuesday December 1 2009 - 6:42AM
- IsoHunt ready to debate copyright with CRIA … in court
- More on IsoHunt’s statement of claim
- MySpace Canada closure causing headaches for indie bands here
- NHL trumps MJ on Yahoo Canada’s annual search list
- Drake, Arcade Fire make Canadian Press year-end summary list
- 3 ’serious’ composers score $75K in new NAC awards
- No ‘Overdrive’ feature in Fred and Randy reunion
- Sainte-Marie crowned at Aboriginal music awards
- K’Naan song nets official World Cup song status
- CRTC website seeks public opinion on TV/cable spectacle
- Call for interventions set by CRTC for proposed Truro FM
- Grey Cup registers record 6.1M viewers
- iTunes offers Grey Cup downloads for sale
- Geist posts contents of ACTA document leak
- International
- Boy band JLS signs £1M publishing deal with EMI
- European ISP trade group denounces ACTA secrecy
- Cyber sales growth unlikely to ease retail decline
- Welsh music industry projecting 84% revenue decline
- Contentious issues stall India’s copyright amendments
- Britain’s new digital download law a flawed revenue grab
- Japan sinks P2P pirates
- Cowell plans new X Factor, to be broadcast from Caesars Palace
- Technology/Marketing/Media
- Canada’s Eleven sues Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo for patent violation
- Rock Band claiming 60M downloads from thousand song inventory
- MJ supremo on Yahoo US year-end search list
- ‘Bye bye bundles: The unbundling of music in digital channels’
- Seth says music execs should pay to play like everyone else
- GE pact with Vivendi clears way for sale of NBC to Comcast
- Limbaugh tops America’s most influential conservative pol poll
- Lollapalooza feed censored by AT&T
- India silences ID-less mobile phones in security crackdown
- Rogers launches Hulu wannabe
- Talent/Features
- Doherty booed in Munich for singing Nazi anthem onstage
- James Horner discusses scoring the Avatar s/t
- Atlantic celebrates six decades with nine-disc boxed set
- Classical imprint Cedille Records turns 20
- Warp celebrates 20th anniversary of soulful recordings
- Black Eyed Peas announce 100-city world tour spectacle
- Handel hits the Euro highway to celebrate 250 years in death
- Rankins to be honoured at 2010 ECMAs
- Anvil nails international music doc award
- Clapton and Beck, together, in Toronto and Montreal in February
- 30 years ago this week: Lennon sang ‘Give peace a chance’
- Arcade Fire in studio recording long awaited 3rd album
- Henry Rollins announces N/A spoken word tour
- Unedited ‘Last Walt’ available for streaming at Wolgang’s Vault
- Bryan Adams snaps Pink in the pink
- Buble tour has him headlining Madison Square Garden again
- Gridlock traffic inspires VSO Olympic fanfare
- MJ ‘Opus’ hits bookstores on December 7
- New collection celebrates Kim Fowley’s abject failures
- Nelly, K-OS play tribute show for Haydain Neale next Monday
- Mott the Hoople now ‘legends’ following Tartan Clef Awards
- Obituaries
- Del-Fi Records’ founder Bob Keane, aged 87
- Cinematographer Marc E. Reshovsky, aged 52
- US cable pioneer Bill Bresnan, aged 75
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