NEWS BRIEF: eMusic Android, Official.fm, Creative Allies’ BandArt, YouTube, RapidShare, UMG & More

eMusic launched an impressive feature-filled Android app today designed by Hunted Media, the creators of popular indie music site We Are Hunted.

• Official.fm, a provider of promotion and management tools for artists and labels launched a new platform at the Rethink Music Conference in Boston today.
• Creative Allies has launched BandArt, a Facebook app for design contests that tap into their community of 25,000 music loving designers. 

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• YouTube loses music clip copyright battle in court – German court rules that YouTube must take down copyrighted music clips – a move which could lead to royalty payments. (Guardian)
• RapidShare is asking it's users to pretty please not use it's cloud storage service for illegal music and media (Scribd) Labels are less than impressed by the efforts…
• UMG's summary judgment motion denied in Rick James v UMG, digital download 'sale vs license' case.
• Hypebot's Hisham Dahud will be tweeting live via @hypebot from the Future of Money & Technology Summit in SF today.
• Digital distributor Venzo Music has added Amazon to it's list of partners.
• Deezer shows Spotify how to do music on the web (paidContent)