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Nokia's Comes With Music Comes To U.S.
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- Pirate Bus on route to start of Pirate Bay trial (ars)
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Sony has become the first major label to renew with YouTube. (Reuters)
- YouTube continues to experiment with select free and paid downloads of its videos. (YouTube blog)
- EU Parliament is moving towards an extension of copyrights to 95 years. (Times UK)
- Sirius XM in talks with DirectTV/Liberty Media. (FMQB)
- Behind the Future Of Music Coalition's Policy Day. (Daily Swarm)
- The Grand Theft Auto games are switching their music partnership from Amazon to iTunes. (Variety)
Congratulations to Shore Fire Media, whose clients have now won the Grammy's "Album of the Year" for the second time in a row and the third time in 6 years (Alison Krauss and Robert Plant for "Raising Sand", Herbie Hancock with "River" in 2008 and Norah Jones' "Come Away with Me" in 2003. No slouches with the other award shows, Shore Fire's clients Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of the Swell Season also won last year's Oscar for Best Original Song and client Bruce Springsteen recently won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "The Wrestler."
