And the latest major label headache? That would be Zaptunes.com, a (supposedly) San Francisco-based store now offering unlimited MP3s for $25 a month. “We have negotiated with the top label companies to let us offer unlimited downloads to our members in exchange for a loyalty management,” the company claims. “With this unique offer, most of the label companies felt it hard to turn down our initiative.” © 2010 digital music news (full story)

MTV and Universal Music Group have kissed and made up — temporarily. Viacom-owned MTV.com recently lost its rights to stream videos from Universal artists such as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Kanye West when their deal expired in July. The two companies couldn’t agree on digital-advertising terms. © 2010 Advertising Age (full story)

Veoh has a warning for justices at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals who will consider overturning a lower court’s ruling in Universal Music Group’s big copyright infringement case. “UMG’s interpretation of the law would, if applied, wreak havoc on a variety of new media portals like Yahoo!, Google and Facebook,” writes Veoh’s attorney Erin Ranahan in just-submitted written arguments. © 2010 The Hollywood Reporter (full story)

A Dutch court has ruled that two of the leading Internet Service Providers in the Netherlands will not have to block access to the Pirate Bay for their subscribers. TorrentFreak reports that the court found there was no evidence that the majority of users of Ziggo and XS4ALL were infringing copyright. © 2010 Billboard (full story)

The composer Jason Robert Brown (“13,” “Parade”) discusses the ethics, creative implications and financial consequences of illegally downloading sheet music — including his sheet music — on the Internet. © 2010 The New York Times (full story)