Washington - The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) began hearing arguments from music publishers, record labels, and digital music distributors on Monday, on how much songwriters and music publishers should be paid when music is streamed or downloaded, according to the Hollywood Reporter. [more..]

Beijing - Three of the major record labels have launched new copyright infringement lawsuits against Chinese search providers Baidu, Sohu.com and Yahoo China, following what record label trade group the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) called "months of fruitless negotiations." [more..]

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple on Tuesday introduced new iPhone and iPod touch models with increased memory, including a 16GB iPhone ($499) and 32B iPod touch ($499). [more..]

Dothan, Ala. - Movie Gallery, the nation's second-largest video rental chain behind Blockbuster, on Tuesday announced plans to close an additional 400 underperforming and unprofitable Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video stores. [more..]

Dulles, Va. - In the second acquisition for its Platform-A advertising arm in as many days, AOL on Tuesday said that it has acquired buy.at, an independent affiliate network that provides advertisers and publishers a platform for e-commerce marketing programs. [more..]

Copenhagen - A Danish court has ordered Internet service provider Tele2 to block access to notorious Sweden-based file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, the result of a civil lawsuit brought by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Reuters reported, citing a story in Danish IT magazine Computerworld. [more..]

Palo Alto, Calif. - Mozes, the provider of an on-demand mobile marketing platform, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Hurricane Interactive Promotions, a provider of live concert mobile phone promotions. [more..]

Santa Monica, Calif. - The Independent Comedy Network (ICN), an online comedy video start-up founded by members of comedy theaters including iO, Westside Eclectic, The PIT and The Magnet, on Tuesday announced its launch. [more..]

Emeryville, Calif. - TubeMogul, a provider of video distribution and analytics services, has raised $1.5 million in funding from Bridge Capital Partners, VentureBeat reported. [more..]

San Francisco - Vator.tv, a video service launched by former Marketwatch columnist Bambi Francisco that lets entrepreneurs post pitches for funding to venture capitalists, has raised "just over $1 million" in a second seed round of funding, Beet.tv reported. [more..]

If the ‘Yahoosoft’ deal does goes ahead, it won’t just impact Google, but also a range of other companies in niche sectors that will have more to fear from a combined Yahoo! and Microsoft content business, blogs Robin Goad of Hitwise UK. [more..]

Santa Monica, Calif. - News. Corp.'s MySpace online social network on Tuesday introduced its anticipated Developer Platform, which will allow developers to create applications that run within the social network, a la the popular platform on rival Facebook. [more..]

Helsinki - Nokia on Tuesday launched its rejiggered N-Gage mobile games service, as well as a mobile social network that lets users share photos and videos, Reuters reported. [more..]

Tel Aviv, Israel - MeeMix, a personalized Internet radio community, on Tuesday launched "Mee Game," a personalized music trivia challenge application for the Facebook and Bebo social networks. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Zazzle, an on-demand retail platform that lets consumers personalize music merchandise and other products, said on Tuesday that it Disney's Hollywood Records will offer its service for artists including Plain White T's and Breaking Benjamin. [more..]

Los Angeles - RDF, the producers of the Fox series "Don't Forget the Lyrics," are creating a companion online game for the show that will allow viewers to upload videos of themselves singing, for consideration to become future contestants on the program. [more..]

Los Angeles - Vivendi Games' Sierra Entertainment studio on Tuesday released its "The Spiderwick Chronicles" game, based on the upcoming Paramount Pictures film and popular books. [more..]