More Music Industry News: Apple vs. Palm, FAC Fights, Lily, We7, Skyline Music & More

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  Apple gets a green light to block Palm from iTunes (NY Times)
• Divisions are emerging within the UK's Future Artist Coalition just prior today's urgent meeting on filesharing. (Billboard) Lily Allen decides that she is dropping out of the debate.
• Internet piracy policing could add £24 to UK every phone bill. (Mirror)
• Brands Back Growth of Legal Music - Brand advertisers are boosting their ad spend on digital music platforms including Spotify and Last.fm as increasing numbers of consumers shun illegal downloading in favour of legitimate online music.  (CA Chronicle)
• Lily Allen Distributing Tons Of Copyrighted Music; Blows Way Past Three Strikes. (Techdirt) we7 launches we7 Presents unsigned band channel. (Music Ally)
• YouTube is now selling ringtones via in video ads.  (NewTeeVee) Too bad they thought of this just as the ringtone market is starting to tank.
• Veteran agent Jeff Miller has joined Skyline Music to represent their artists to the casino, fair and corporate even markets. Skyline Music is the parent company of Hypebot.com.
• Bruce Warila answers the question: "What I would do with a pile of money to spend on an artist? "(MusicThinkTank)  This whole site is worth spending time on.