New York - YouLicense.com, the provider of an online music licensing platform, announced on Tuesday the launch of a new automated, private label service that lets content owners set up their own branded online licensing marketplaces. The company said customers at launch include INgrooves, Big Fish media, AWAL and Cyberset Records.

Los Angeles - Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS) is courting four Hollywood movie studios all bidding on the big screen rights to an as-yet-unannounced new title from the video game publisher, Variety reports.

Seattle - Online photography licensing service Getty Images has launched a new online music licensing service that will offer tracks to producers and advertisers for use in their productions, Billboard reports. The Premium Playlist service at launch includes over 1,000 songs, from artists including Norah Jones and Barenaked Ladies, via deals with Warner/Chappell, Koch, Cherry Lane, Kobalt, Red Light Management, Lionsgate and Nettwerk. Getty Images acquired Web-based music licensor Pump Audio for $42 million last June, and introduced a service based on Pump's called Soundtrack last October that now offers 100,000 independent label tracks.

New York - Major record label Sony BMG's Commercial Music Group on Tuesday announced the launch of MovieTunes, a new service that helps filmmakers choose music for their films. The site lets filmmakers submit specific criteria pertaining to their needs, at which point a Sony BMG "music expert" will provide assistance in selecting songs from the Sony BMG archive that fit their budget parameters.

Munich, Germany - A German court has ordered Dutch collecting society Buma/Stemra and digital music service Beatport to stop distributing tracks in Germany for which German collecting society GEMA claims the rights.

London -- Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced it has reached a deal with UK production company Endemol to develop a mobile game based on its television property, Deal or No Deal.

The agreement gives EA Mobile, a division of EA’s Casual Entertainment Label, the rights to develop, market and publish new mobile games based on the Deal or No Deal TV series for the UK mobile market.

Santa Monica, Calif. - Pure Play Music on Thursday introduced its service that helps independent artists license their music for use in movies, commercials, video games and other opportunities. The company, which also has six retail radio stations serving 20,000 retailers across Europe, plans to launch its platform on Aug. 20. Pure Play said it is currently promoting over 6,000 artists on its network.

Tel Aviv, Israel - YouLicense.com, an online music licensing marketplace, announced on Wednesday that it has secured an undisclosed sum of first round funding, from Ofer Media and Logia Group.

Sausalito, Calif. - ImageSpan, a provider of enabling infrastructure for digital content licensing, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $11 million in its second round of financing, led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments.

New York - Major record label Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has pulled its catalog from free on-demand music streaming service Last.fm, according to reports. The label was the first of the majors to sign a deal to stream its songs for free on Last.fm -- which was acquired by CBS (NYSE: CBS) for $280 million -- and it may be seeking to improve the terms of its deal with the move.

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New York - SpiralFrog, the developer of a free, ad-supported peer-to-peer music download service, on Tuesday announced its second deal with a major record label, as EMI Music signed on to offer its catalog on the site.

London - The chief economist for U.K. royalty agency MCPS-PRS Alliance and a Vanderbilt Ph.D. student have teamed to develop a proposal that would see new music technology start-ups offer equity in their companies to record labels in exchange for licenses to use their music. Will Page and David Touve's proposal stems from the reality that start-ups that legally license music pay more royalties than they generate in income in the early going, while those that forego licenses are sometimes sued out of business. This proposal would provide a payout for record labels, especially if a music start-up is later acquired, while giving new technologies a chance to legally gain exposure.

New York - RightsFLow, a provider of outsourced licensing and royalty services, has announced a mechanical licensing agreement with The Harry Fox Agency for full-length, permanent digital downloads. "Our clients look to us to provide a turnkey outsourced solution for publishing licensing and royalty administration," said RightsFlow president and CEO Patrick Sullivan. "Working with HFA is a key step that will allow us to license and account more swiftly and efficiently, allow our clients to get more product available for sale, and create a greater value for all."

New York - RightsFlow, LLC, a private New York-based company, announced the launch of its outsourced music publishing licensing and royalty systems for record labels, distributors, online music retailers, and others engaged in distribution and sale of recorded music.

San Francisco - Sonific, a provider of licensed music widgets and free music applications for social media, said on Tuesday that it will take its service offline "as a consequence of the unworkable music licensing situation and the resulting lack of solid revenue modeling," co-founder and CEO Gerd Leonhard wrote in a note on Sonific.com. The company had attracted 80,000 users to its service and amassed a library of over 200,000 licensed songs.