• Seven UK music download sites have adopted a new MP3-compatible campaign. A logo -- "MP3" with a small check mark -- is aimed at assuring consumers that the MP3 tracks will play on their computers and devices. Record labels and the BPI trade group support the campaign. I'll admit...this is the oddest logo I've ever seen. In the span of two letters, one number and a check mark, it describes all the product's benefits and qualities that are already expressed in the span of two letters and one number (less the check mark). (Pocket-lint)

• Classical label Naxos has re-launched Classics Onlinenow that it boasts a 21,000-title album catalog of 320-kbps, DRM-Free downloads. (Press release)

• Google's book scanning settlement could eventually have an impact in digital music, a field with notorious barriers to entry. Wrote James Gibson, "Google's concession has made it more difficult for anyone to invoke fair use for book searches. The settlement itself is proof that a company can pay licensing fees and still turn a profit." (Washington Post)

• The Age, an Australian newspaper, has an op-ed about file-sharing titled "A Word to the Stealing Generations." I ran across the piece via a link at the IFPI website. It's kinda fascinating to see how newspapers have changed their tune a bit over the years (even though lawsuits against the public continue). The Age probably wouldn't take a moral stand if AC/DC files hadn't been so widely traded last month. One snippet goes like this: "One of the dangers is that music will go the same way as cinema and publishing — the financial risk becomes so great that companies only back material considered to be an iron-clad commercial proposition." Sounds familiar. (The Age)

• The first Musink Tattoo and Music Festival, sponsored by Samsung, will hit 25 cities this winter and will be headlined by Social Distortion and Motorhead. (Billboard.biz)

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