- HMV Canada launches digital store with MJ’s This Is It at $9.99
- Toronto considers city sales tax
- Fluid Music wins in-store music service for 200 accounts
- Elvis Stojko to ‘Rock The Ice’ with new single, album
- Globealive caught in the crosswinds between PMO and CRTC
- Blue Rodeo launches 50 show tour spanning Nov. through April
- International
- BlueBeat continues selling Beatles online, ignores EMI lawsuit
- ACTA leaks suggest ISPs, users face Orwellian web rules
- No Doubt sue Activision over use of Band Hero avatars
- EU softens on ‘three-strikes’ penalty
- Online Sheet Music Plus business is booming
- Konami set to buy Japan’s Victor music business
- Technology/Marketing/Media
- Sirius XM blunts losses, posts growth in Q3 filing
- RIM makes $1.2B common share buyback
- Samsung OMNIA II, official 2010 Olympics Smart Phone
- The Orchard named distributor for Jazz At Lincoln Center
- Murdoch stalls on paywall for media properties
- Microsoft in beta test mode for MSN Music services
- Talent/Features
- Forbes: New ways to steal music
- Artie Shaw legacy captured in 7–CD boxed set
- Mariah Carey claims hubby Motolla wouldn’t let her out of the house
- Obituaries
Today’s headlines, November 05
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