• CEO/chariman Doug Morris has re-signed with Universal Music Group. (Billboard.biz)

• An interview with Doug Morris. Read the entire thing. Here's a taste: "What I take seriously is the fact that we're people who create art. Whether you like our art or not, it's what we do. My whole point of view is this problem we're in, which is caused by technology, will be solved by technology. Some genius on the other side will figure out how to stop the piracy that seems very logical to me. So all these people who come up with these opinions that they should have done this and that, it's all ridiculous." (Billboard.biz)

• Sony plans to get Sony Music in sync with the rest of the company. "Sony already this month has moved to streamline the music group, merging two labels that had been run separately by Bertelsmann and Sony. Next, the Sony executive said, will be a push to better integrate Sony music with Sony Ericsson mobile phones, which had a paltry 8 percent market share in the second quarter." (AP)

• Universal Music Group's Fontana International label group has partnered with UK-based Cooperative Music. Fontana will help develop Coop Music titles in the North America. (Press release)

• Lil Jon has singed up with Universal Republic as an artist, owner of new record imprint, producer and A&R consultant. (Press release)

[music jobs] New York University is seeking a Department Chair for The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music.