Around the Web

• Comes With Music is coming into focus: The Nokia Music Store goes live in Nokia Music PC client (it's currently in beta). Now users can buy, download and transfer to mobile devices through this one application. Screen shots and video in the article. (All About Symbian)

• Fortune has an article on the upcoming MySpace Music that pits it against current #1 social music site, Imeem.com. "People on Madison Avenue say Imeem is getting about $4 in ad revenue for every thousand page views...MySpace Music starts out in an even weaker position. Ad agency people say it charges about $1 less per thousand page views than Imeem. But Donnie Williams, director of digital strategy at marketing firm Horizon Media, says that MySpace is improving its ad-targeting abilities." (Fortune.com)

• The People's Music Store has launched. It allows users to create a personalized online music store. Stores can be shrunk down to "microstores," or basically widgets that can be placed on other websites. (Altogether Digital)

• Tim Wipperman has been named President of the Equity Music Group. (Music Row)

• Is Girl Talk safe in his claim of fair use, or is his music copyright infringement? Or have potential plaintiffs been hesitant out of fear of losing and setting a new precedent? Robert Levine has a solid article on the legal gray area of today's mashup king. My opinion: He isn't even close to fair use, but his derivative works are certainly different than their predecessors. (New York Times)

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