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9:10 AM ET, September 15, 2006

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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Universal Music chief blasts YouTube, MySpace over copyrights  —  LOS ANGELES - Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris said the wildly popular Web sites YouTube and MySpace are violating copyright laws by allowing users to post music videos and other content involving Universal artists.
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Tim Arango / New York Post:
TARGET: YOUTUBE  —  UNIVERSAL MUSIC WARNS WEB VIDEO SWAPPER  —  Universal Music chief Doug Morris launched a loud salvo at YouTube, warning the upstart Internet firm that it could come into the legal crosshairs of the world's largest music company.  —  YouTube, the prolific swapper of videos online …
Discussion: i-boy and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Universal Music pressuring YouTube, MySpace  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's biggest record company, is stepping up pressure against popular online sites YouTube and MySpace, accusing them of infringing the copyrights of its artists' music videos.
Charles Duhigg / Los Angeles Times:
Music chief faults social Web sites  —  YouTube, MySpace seen as hindrances on copyright issues  —  To some in the music industry, social networking sites such as MySpace.com and YouTube.com are a godsend, helping listeners enjoy their acts and discover new bands.  —  But not to the head of the world's largest music company.
Discussion: Digital Music News and Coolfer
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up  —  Public hindsight about startups' missteps generally comes after a good amount of "traveling in Europe with my fiancée" or whatever it is that failed CEOs do.  However, Evan Williams just gave a refreshing talk about the dangers of combining money …
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
TechCrunch's Arrington shares his winners and losers  —  TechCruncher Mike Arrington opened the second day of The Future of Web Apps Summit with his picks of Web 2.0 winners and losers and gives advice to wouldbe startups.  He also announced the next blog in the TechCrunch family, which will cover enterprise products.
Valleywag:
Kind-of-liveblogging a kind-of-speech: Taunting Michael Arrington …
Discussion: FactoryCity and ALLIED
Michael Gartenberg:
Today's Zune News - First Take  —  Well, we heard from Apple earlier this week (but don't think that's the last word.  Last year Apple followed up the Nano announcement with the 5G iPods just a few weeks later) and now it's Microsoft's turn.  I spent some time recently with the Zune …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Zune: Interview, Bryan Lee, Corporate VP/CFO, Entertainment …
Discussion: IP Democracy and Read/WriteWeb
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Behind Google's German courtroom battle  —  Google's free Web e-mail offering may be available for correspondence in 40 languages, but efforts at worldwide expansion using the moniker "Gmail" continue to face complications.  —  Last October, the search giant grabbed headlines …
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Availability of New Yahoo! Mail Beta to Users …
Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
Yahoo Mail 2.0  —  Yahoo finally opened up its next-generation …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Netvibes Five Million Users & Counting  —  The upside of conferences such as The Future of Web Apps confab (currently underway in San Francisco) is that you run into folks you never expect.  Today, I ran into Tariq Krim, chief executive officer and founder of Paris-based Netvibes.
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb
Jill Goldsmith / Variety:
Rupe looks to release bird  —  Murdoch considering DirecTV sale to Liberty  —  In a splattering blow to the satellite biz, Rupert Murdoch supposedly dubbed DirecTV a "turd bird" and is considering selling News Corp.'s controlling stake to Liberty Media.  —  FCC chairman Kevin Martin …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
The Sexy Sonos-Rhapsody Lovechild  —  Sonos today announced that the latest version of their home music devices now support streaming music from Rhapsody.  We have previously written about Sonos and a couple of weeks ago we spent some time with the two founders of the company talking …
Discussion: Kevin Maney and Listening Post
Nick / Rough Type:
Office generations  —  This is the first in a series of occasional commentaries on the future of corporate IT.  —  In the wake of the popular embrace of the buzzword Web 2.0, the suffix "2.0" has become an all-purpose signifier of putatively revolutionary newness.
Tom Abate / The Technology Chronicles:
PC Forum's demise marks the end of an era  —  Call it a sign of the times, but what is arguably the longest running elite high-tech conference became a thing of the past.  Technolgy guru Esther Dyson has quietly put out the word that the 2006 PC Forum, held in March in Carlsbad, California, would be the last.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Microsoft sued over Xbox Live  —  Wrap your head around this bit of legal maneuvering: Paltalk, a company based in New York (but incorporated in Delaware), sues Washington-based Microsoft in an East Texas court.  Why would the Eastern District of Texas have jurisdiction over such dispute?
Discussion: Engadget and digg
 
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