Monday Morning Business Notes, Links
WEA Corp, Warner Music Group's distribution arm, inked a deal with Latin label Union Records. WEA will "market and distribute select music titles" from the label's roster, which includes Juan Fernando Velasco and Danilo Parra. (Press Release)
Digital Music Group has acquired the Digital Rights Agency for $3.2 million in cash and 420,000 shares of DMG stock. (Digital Music News)
EMI and T-Mobile UK are testing an ad-supported music video service for mobile phone subscribers. (Forbes.com)
Speaking of EMI, Lehman Brothers has downgraded its stock on fears of weak first half sales. (Sharecast)
Disney's "The Cheetah Girls 2" soundtrack cashes in on the same tweeners that made "High School Musical" such a huge hit. (LA Times)
The Boston Globe's Joan Anderman highlights four upcoming albums "that -- with a little luck -- could take the world by storm." The four artists are Lupe Fiasco, Sting, Lady Sovereign and missFlag. (Boston Globe)
A 16-year-old girl has sued Atlantic Records over a sexually explicit video that was taken at a Buckcherry concert in October of 2005. The band wasn't signed to Atlantic until the following May, and the label says it edited the video and took out the underage girl. The Internet being the Internet, versions of the original edit can still be found. (LA Times)
Where did the payola settlement money go? Some of it ended up funding for summer artst festivals like the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Festival. (Poughkeepsie Journal)
Sony BMG Music Entertainment is looking for a Mobile Account Executive

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