• More on the CISAC Copyright Summit in Brussels: British Telecom CEO Ben Verwaayen was brutally frank with the audience. "Your industry has not changed for 20 years, maybe 50 years," he said in his keynote address. "You have to rethink how you work in the digital age. Are you just a rights administrator that sends me a bill, or are you something more?" Sounds like the Lawrence Lessig panel was pretty lively, too. (Hollywood Reporter)

• Ethan Smith covers Lala.com's interoperable, free-of-charge subscription service that launched today. (Go here to download player application.) "It's like a subscription music service, but without the monthly subscription fee. Lala is betting that in return for getting all that free access to music at home, listeners will pay to buy the songs they want to take with them on iPods and other music players. The prices will range from $6.50 to $13.50 for an album." Lots of interesting details in the article. Big difference here is that the subscription service works with the iPod. Give it a read. (Wall Street Journal)

• Melodio plans a mobile service that allows users to stream songs from their iTunes library. (Reuters)

• eMusic will offer Paul McCartney's new Hear Music album, Memory Almost Full. This means two things: Fans can get the album in MP3 format without Apple-style information embedded in the file, and the low price should help pad McCartney's SoundScan numbers. (Bit Player)

• Universal Music Publishing acquired the catalog of songwriter Michael Masser, who wrote the Whitney Houston hits "Saving All My Love For You," "The Greatest Love of All" and "Didn't We Almost Have It All." (Press release)

• Miami's Jackie Gleason Theatre inked a ten-year deal with Live Nation and will bear the Fillmore Theater brand name. (Billboard.biz)

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