More Music Industry News: $’s For 30 Sec. Samples, Techdirt Joins In, Pirate Bay, Trade Mags Build Walls & More

• Songwriters want to get paid for 30-second song previews:  Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are lobbying Congress to legislate the payment of performance fees into downloaded music. If music publishers get their way, they'll be able to extract additional licensing fees from music downloads, movies, and TV shows containing their music, and even 30-second previews.(ars)  Come on! Should music magazines pay to use a PR photo?
• A look inside Sup Pop's increasingly successful offshoot label Hardley Art. (Seattle Weekly)
• Mike Masnick and his Techdirt readers are adding their two cents to the heated debate that's going on here on Hypebot over my post "I'm Sorry. It Was Never Just About The Music".  (Techdirt)
• ColbertNation.com will stream full albums from upcoming musical guests appearing on The Colbert Report. The Flaming Lips will become the first performers to debut their new double album "Embryonic". (press release)
• Pirate Bay Buyer Faces Bankruptcy –
  Just
  as the payment deadline for the Pirate Bay deal is set to expire, its
  intended buyer Global Gaming Factory (GGF) faces yet another setback.
  Former director and board member Johan Sellstrom is owed hundreds of
  thousands of dollars by the company and has now requested bankruptcy
  for his former employer.(TorrentFreak)
• Two top industry trade magazines – Variety, The Hollywood Reporter are exploring charging for more online content.  (paidContent)  They could follow Billboard.biz's lead and really confuse and annoy people….