• Mitch Wolk was promoted to president of Alternative Distribution Alliance, Warner Music Group's indie label distributor. Former president Andy Allen has been named chairman of independent music for WMG. (Billboard.biz)

• Telefonica O2 has paid "a significant cash infusion" to rename Dublin's the Point Theatre as The O2. Live Nation is a co-owner of the theater. (Pollstar)

• Video Games Live and EMI Classics are teaming up to release an album of classics commonly heard in video games. The album's title, Video Games Live: Volume One, implies other may follow. (Game Informer)

• Attorneys General from Tennessee and Connecticut met with FCC commissioner Deborah Tate and expressed their belief that the XM-Sirius merger is not in the public interest. Many feel Tate could be the swing vote. (Radio Ink)

• A real, honest-to-goodness orphan works problem, this one concerning old photographs with unclear ownership. The New York Times article linked to in the post left me with three thoughts: there is no indication that those two photos have no adequate substitutes that are free of copyright issues; the pictures cannot be licensed even though they were given to the library as gifts; and copyright law confuses just about every person in its path, (EFF Deep Links)

• The current head of the UK's Office of Communications hinted in a speech that his office would be happy to "play a constructive role" in helping ISPs and record labels come to "commercial or voluntary agreement" that deals with P2P and piracy. The office was established in 2002 to be a regulator for the UK's communications industries. (ZeroPaid)

• Some legal reading for you: A list of the RIAA's suggestions for provisions of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. It covers everything from criminal sanctions for copyright infringement on a commercial scale to providing "remedies and injunctive relief" against parties that set up or maintain directories of infringing material. (Knowledge Ecology International, via The Patry Copyright Blog)