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France set to cut Web access for music, film pirates (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Internet users in France who frequently download music or films illegally risk losing Web access under a new anti-piracy system unveiled on Friday.

France set to cut Web access for music, film pirates (ZDNet)

Internet users in France who frequently download music or films illegally risk losing Web access under a new antipiracy system. PARIS–Internet users in France who frequently download music or films illegally risk losing Web access under a new antipiracy system unveiled Friday. The three-way pact…

Sony Music loses ruling in Meat Loaf case (CNN Money)

Federal court orders music company to pay small record company $5 million over lack of logo on ‘Bat Out of Hell’ reissue.

Ozzy to rock Wellington music festival (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)

Veteran rocker and reality television superstar Ozzy Osbourne is to join American glam metallers Kiss in the two-day Rock2Wgtn music festival in Wellington next Easter.

Music festival had $9.3 million impact in Vail (Vail Daily)

VAIL, COLORADO The Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the largest cultural destination in the Vail Valley with over 60,000 concert attendees, has completed an annual economic impact study.

With a song in his heart: Performer finds his true calling making music for those who need it most (Eagle-Tribune Online)

For most of his career, Newburyport resident Paul Wayne played the comedy club circuit in Boston and New York City as a traditional entertainer. He’s been the opening act at North Shore Music Theater in Salem, Mass., Mohegan Sun and Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

11/23/07: Renowned IU Music Professor Dies At 91 (WLKY Louisville)

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Renowned Indiana University percussionist George Gaber has died at the age of 91. Gaber joined IU’s faculty in 1960 and helped transform its Jacobs School of Music into one of the nation’s top music schools.

Music classes return to public schools (Hammond Daily Star)

Music specialist Ellen Sweetman has a song in her heart these days. She teaches regular and accelerated students in her classes at Hammond Westside Elementary.

Court upholds $5 million judgment against Sony Music over logo dispute (KATU Portland)

Sony Music must pay the founder of a small record company $5 million for failing to put his company’s logo on reissues of Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” album, a federal appeals court ruled.

Music box sets released for the holidays (Albuquerque Tribune)

The first cut shows how far Emmylou Harris has come to achieve her status as a grande dame of country music. Harris sounds like some flower-power refugee on the opening “Clocks,” channeling Judy Collins in a wispy alto.

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