Los Angeles - Following unsuccessful negotiations where producers balked at writers' demands for larger cuts of revenue from DVDs and online content, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has called for a strike by its members that could begin as early as Monday, Variety reported. [more..]

New York - A group of consumer advocates and Internet law scholars this week asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to step in and prevent the nation's second-largest broadband provider, Comcast, from interfering with file-sharing activities by some of its subscribers, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Eugene, Ore. - Oregon's Attorney General has filed a motion to quash the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) subpoena for the identities of suspected music file-swappers on the University of Oregon's campus network, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Tokyo - The Nintendo Wii's sales lead over Sony's rival PlayStation 3 in Japan has declined for the fourth straight month, although it still outsold the PS3 by 2-to-1 in October, Reuters reported, citing sales data from Japan's Enterbrain. [more..]

New York - Despite participation from fellow major labels Universal, Sony BMG and EMI, Warner Music Group is withholding its songs from Nokia's new online music store over copyright concerns, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. [more..]

Los Angeles - Digital music service Napster this week reported a narrower loss in its fiscal second quarter, while revenue grew by 24% to $31.6 million. [more..]

Seattle - RealNetworks (NASD: RNWK) this week reported revenue gains at its music and games subscription services, as well as record overall revenue of $145.1 million for its fiscal third quarter, an increase of 55% over the same period a year ago. [more..]

Los Angeles - NBC Universal is shutting down its DotComedy website, which has seen traffic plunge 30% in the last three months, after just over a year in business, Variety reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - AOL will discontinue Hi-Q, the high-definition online video streaming service it launched in late 2005, due to low consumer adoption, NewTeeVee.com reports. [more..]

New York, N.Y. - Playlogic Entertainment, a New York-based video game publisher, on Friday announced that it has raised $12.3 million in a private placement of stock. [more..]

Reston, Va. - ComScore, a provider of Internet audience measurement services, said that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to sell up to 6.1 million shares in a follow-on public offering. [more..]

NYTimes.com wasn’t the first traditional media brand to aggregate third-party content — and it certainly won’t be the last. But the New York Times, once considered the national newspaper of record, represented one of the last bastions of the traditional media approach to content, i.e. we produce it ALL ourselves, blogs Scott Karp. [more..]

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In a video posted by Reason.tv, the new host of “The Price is Right” conducts a tour of west Los Angeles and takes cameras to a pharmacy on Santa Monica Blvd that legally distributes medical marijuana. [more..]

Negative reactions to Tom Cruise’s Lions for Lambs, directed by Robert Redford and co-starring Meryl Streep, could have a negative impact on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s attempts to raise funds for film productions [more..]

A last minute addition to MTV’s European Music Awards, Amy Winehouse offered an unexpectedly bad performance at the show. [more..]

London - Less than 24 hours after its release earlier this week, hackers altered the PSP version of Rockstar Games' (NASD: TTWO) controversial "Manhunt 2" to unlock gory content taken out of the game to secure an "M" rating -- which was apparently removed from the game but not from underlying source code, GamesIndustry.biz reported. [more..]

New York - Rolling Stone magazine has posted a digital version of the entire last issue of its 40th Anniversary series online, complete with links inside the editorial content to RealNetworks' (NASD: RNWK) Rhapsody digital music service. [more..]

Tokyo - Major label EMI's Japanese unit has created its own channel on YouTube in the country -- making it the first major to do so, Billboard reported. [more..]

New York - Hearst-Argyle Television (NYSE: HTV) said this week that it has launched ten additional YouTube channels for its TV stations, brining the total number offered on the service to 26. [more..]

Atlanta - Internap Network Services (NASD: INAP), a provider of content delivery network services, this week announced plans to introduce enterprise-grade peer-to-peer technology on its network, designed to support delivery of large libraries of content with a wide range of demand. [more..]

Austin - Video game developer and publisher NCsoft on Friday shipped "Tabula Rasa," a new massively multiplayer online PC game from executive producer Richard Garriott, to retailers in North America and Europe. [more..]

New York - Mobile games developer Gameloft said this week that it has signed a worldwide licensing deal with Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group, to create a mobile game based on the upcoming film, "American Gangster." [more..]