Some interesting reading

> EMI Group PLC - home of The Rolling Stones and Coldplay - has been talking with online retailers about possibly selling its entire digital music catalog in MP3 format without copy protection. Continue reading here...

> When Ben Relles uploaded his first video online, he didn't do it for the money. Like many creators filling video-sharing sites with material, Relles' initial motivations were more artistically pure. He just wanted attention. "It was more about, 'Let's create something and see how far it can go,'" Relles says. However, Relles can't help but think of how much money he would have made off of his short music-video satire had YouTube, the Google-owned leading video site, already implemented a new plan to pay creators for their content. Continue reading here...

> There's a high-stakes battle raging in Washington over who picks up the tab for the rising rivers of Internet data and the newly upgraded networks that deliver it. On one side are a host of tech companies—from Google to Yahoo! to Microsoft—that specialize in Web-related content and technology, pushing for rules that they say would keep the Internet free from discriminatory pricing. On the other are the phone and cable companies that run the networks shuttling that information from place to place. Continue reading here...