• Warner Music Group is ready to go after EMI again, The Wall Street Journal reported. (AFX)

• Country group Lonestar has been dropped by Sony BMG's BNA Records. (CMT.com)

• European Union consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has criticized Apple's combination of iPod and iTunes. "Do you think it's fine that a CD plays in all CD players but that an iTunes song only plays in an iPod?" he asked. "I don't. Something has to change." (Reuters)

• Warner Music Group has added hip hop label Rhymesayers to its Independent Label Group. Rhymesayers was previously distributed by Navarre and will now go through WMG's ADA Distribution. (Billboard.biz)

• Congressman Mike Doyle spoke about mash-ups and mixtapes at last week's "Future of Radio" House Telecom and Internet sub-committee hearing...and name dropped one of his constituents, indie dance artist Girl Talk. Said Doyle, "I hope that everyone involved will take a step back and ask themselves if mash-ups and mixtapes are really different or if it's the same as Paul McCartney admitting that he nicked the Chuck Berry bass-riff and used it on the Beatle's hit 'I Saw Her Standing There.'" (The 463: Inside Tech Policy)

• Warner Bros' expensive mistake of 2006, Paris Hilton's debut album, fared so poorly that Hilton will reportedly be dropped in the coming weeks. (Digital Spy)

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