Wednesday’s Music Brief: SeeqPod Bankruptcy, Ringbacks, FAC, Blackberry Apps & More

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  MORE FREE WEEK:

• FREE!: The Kind of Music Nobody Wants To Own
• Online Listening Replacing Music Aqusition
• "Free" Thinker: Bandzoogle's Chris Vinson
• Music Business Is A Crap Shoot, So Why Not An EMI Lottery?
• SeeqPod Files For Bankrupcy
• The Orchard Adds Labels

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

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  A new BMI study of its 375,000 members  projects that ringback tones
  will surpass $235 million in the U.S.in 2009 up 15% from 2008 and 68%
  from 2007. BMI estimates that more than 10 million U.S. subscribers are
  signed up for ringback services, a penetration rate of approximately
  4%.
• The Featured Artists
  Coalition (FAC), a lobbying group of U.K.
  musicians, has
  backed the U.K.
  government's official opposition to an EU-wide extension to copyright term
  lengths. (DMW)
• Blackberry has launched App World including many music applications. (Blackberry)
• Analysts predict Google's new Chinese music service faces tough going. (AFP)
  
• Make more room for Irving: Ticketmaster president and CEO
  Sean Moriarty has resigned. (WSJ)
  
• An interview with "Billion Dollar Charlie" Nesson, the Harvard Law professor who's taking on the RIAA in federal court. (ars)
• ARTISTdirect has selected WebMetro to boost the online entertainment network's Internet marketing with search engine optimization (SEO).
• I'm travelling this week so the Daily D.I.Y is on hiatus until Monday.