Los Angeles - Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) voted overwhelmingly Tuesday evening to end their over three-month-long strike, meaning that most were back at work writing television show and movie scripts on Wednesday. [more..]

Washington - Several members of the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) on Wednesday filed a class action copyright infringement lawsuit against MediaNet, a company that powers digital music services for Microsoft, Yahoo, MTV and others, claiming they failed to obtain proper licenses for use of songwriters' and publishers' works. [more..]

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Still searching for ways to stave off a hostile takeover by Microsoft, Yahoo is in discussions to swap a substantial stake in the company -- potentially more than 20% -- for some of the online properties owned by media giant News Corp., which include MySpace, IDG and Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, following earlier reports by TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider. [more..]

New York - New York may become the first state to enact a mandatory ban on sexual predators from accessing social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, after district attorneys from all five boroughs endorsed a bill proposed by N.Y. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. [more..]

New York - After complaints from members of much difficulty in fully deleting their profiles from the social network, Facebook has modified its site to make it more clear to users how they can delete profiles, but stopped short of offering a one-step delete option, The New York Times reported. [more..]

Redmond, Wash. - About half of teens are not familiar with copyright laws that pertain to downloading media, and only 11% clearly understand the current rules, crediting their parents most often as their information source, according to a survey of 501 teens in grades 7-10 conducted by Microsoft. [more..]

Salinas, Calif. - Online video views delivered through professionally-branded sites from major media companies rose 50.3% in 2007, to 33.5 billion, according to a new report from AccuStream iMedia Research. [more..]

Montreal - Vantrix, a provider of mobile video delivery technology, has raised $5.25 million in new financing from MMV Financial, VentureWire reported. [more..]

Charlestown, Mass. - Eons, a provider of online communities for baby boomers, announced on Wednesday that it has spun off its obituary classified business, Tributes.com. [more..]

London - Bragster, a social network "for dares and social bets," announced on Wednesday that it has closed a $3.5 million first round of venture capital financing, led by Intel Capital. [more..]

San Francisco - An Oakland-based producer called Amplive has reportedly received approval from Radiohead to release his remix album based entirely from tracks off the band's recently released "In Rainbows," and has posted it for free download online, Wired.com reported. [more..]

New York - Sirius Satellite Radio said on Wednesday that it has extended its exclusive satellite radio partnership with automaker Chrysler through September 2017. [more..]

San Francisco - A Russia-based website called Tagoo that is "as easy to use as iTunes" and offers "virtually any copyrighted music downloads for free" is starting to gain attention overseas, and was on Tuesday's hotlist on social bookmarking site del.icio.us, Wired.com reported. [more..]

Paris - European Film Treasures plans in April to launch a European video-on-demand site that will offer free streaming access to a wealth of rare archive films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts announced on Wednesday that it will ship "Spore," the highly-anticipated title from its Maxis studio and "Sims" creator Will Wright, on September 7 for the PC, Mac, Nintendo DS and mobile phones. [more..]

London - U.K. online media retailer Play.com has begun selling DRM-free music downloads, offering a selection of about 1 million tracks from major label EMI and various independent labels. [more..]

Barcelona - Mobile content distributor Jamba announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with major record label EMI, to offer DRM-free song downloads to mobile phones and PCs on all Jamba and Jamster-branded portals in Europe. [more..]

Barcelona - Melodeo, a provider of mobile music delivery technology, has announced a deal with Blackberry device maker Research in Motion that will let Blackberry users access their iTunes music libraries on the devices, Billboard reports. [more..]

Barcelona - Mobile music service provider Groove Mobile on Wednesday announced a licensing agreement with Indie Mobile that will add a catalog of 70,000 independent artists' tracks to its offering. [more..]

Baltimore - Loovya.com, a subscription online dating service originally established in 2006, said that it has re-launched its site in beta mode. T [more..]