Los Angeles - The appeal of the convictions of the operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay has been tentatively scheduled to commence on Sept. 28, 2010, TorrentFreak reported. The four defendants were found guilty in April 2009 and ordered to serve a year in prison and pay large fines. read more

London - Pink Floyd has won its case before the U.K. High Court against record label EMI, over a breach of contract concerning the sale of its albums as individual song downloads, the BBC reported. The judge in the case said EMI's contract with the band did not entitle the label to sell individual tracks without the band's permission -- but EMI was not immediately ordered to stop selling single track downloads of the band's songs, and it's unclear whether that will be part of a final ruling.read more

San Francisco - Chomp, a provider of reviews and recommendations of applications for Apple's iPhone, has raised $2 million in new funding, VentureBeat reported.read more

London - OK Go, the band that made the Rube Goldberg machine music video and recently had a public tiff with record label EMI over the ability for fans to embed said video, has asked and been let out of its contract with EMI's Capitol Records. The band will now re-release its new album "Of The Color of Blue Sky" on its own label, Paracadute Records. Singer Damian Kulash tells New York Magazine that EMI was not funding the level of promotion the band desired, noting, "The issue is that they just don't have any money" -- referring to EMI's public financing struggles. read more

Los Angeles - Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iTunes LP format, which adds lyrics, cover art, videos, animation and other extras to a digital album, has disappointed labels that have experimented with it over the past six months since its launch, GigaOM reports. Music industry sources told GigaOM the format is not much generating consumer recognition, and only 29 iTunes LPs are currently on sale -- including a dozen available at launch. Some are balking at the up to $60,000 extra it can cost to produce an iTunes LP, which can eclipse overall sales for many albums. read more