More Music News: Apple’s Hypocrisy, Zoe Keating, Virtual Composer, Jonathan Coulton & More

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  Free iTunes! Apple's hypocritical move to block competitors from accessing its software. (Slate)

• NARM has started a group on business networking site Linkedin. Join it here.
• More on WMG;s return to YouTube as a premium channel. (paidContent)
• Zoe Keating: Web Fame that Actually Translated to a Career (TechCrunch)
• Alex Maghen has been upped to Chief Technology Officer at MySpace. 
• Would this advert stop you filesharing? 
  The
  decision by UK Music to reprint a blogpost from an indie band on the
  adverse effects of leaking albums to the internet marks an interesting
  turn in the filesharing debate. (Guardian)
• Virtual composer makes beautiful music—and stirs controversy.  Can a computer program really generate musical compositions that are good enough to have been written by humans? Professor David Cope thinks so, and has dedicated decades of research to the topic of artificial intelligence in music, which has resulted in not one, but two controversial composing engines. (ars)
• Record Stores: Out of Sight, Not Obsolete (NY Times)
• Low Overhead + High Margin: An Interview with Jonathan Coulton. (Music Business & Trend Mongering)
• Nettwerk Music Group Signs Deal With Digital Distribution Platform FUGA to use as the central database for its digital releases. (Alt Sounds)
• Jeremy Banks appointed IFPI's Director, Anti-Piracy.
• Mark Mulligan: "Why the ‘Music As Free’ Argument Just Doesn’t Hold Water"