Los Angeles - Wolfgang's Vault, a site that offers downloads of vintage concerts and other memorabilia once owned by legendary concert promoter Bill Graham, has reached a tentative settlement with rock bands Santana and the Doors, and a number of record labels that sued the site for copyright infringement, Billboard reports.

Beijing - Major record label EMI has filed suit against China-based music recommendation service Yobo.com, Pacific Epoch reports, citing the Beijing Times.

New York - Veteran rockers The Allman Brothers Band has filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group, seeking over $10 million in what the band says are unpaid royalties from sales of their CDs and digital downloads, Reuters reported.

Los Angeles - A federal judge has sided with the argument of a 16-year-old girl who claimed she had no knowledge or understanding of file-sharing or copyright infringement, and ruled she will only have to pay $200 per song, instead of the $750-30,000 allowed under the Copyright Act, Ars Technica reported.

Boston - Tufts University is challenging a judge's order that it turn over the identities behind the IP addresses the record industry charges were used for illicit file-sharing on its campus network, arguing that two of the IP addresses could belong to up to 40 different students, Ars Technica reported.

San Diego - Michael Robertson, head of music storage locker service MP3tunes -- which is currently the target of a copyright suit from EMI -- said yesterday that a recent court ruling in favor of a similar video service from Cablevision "sets a sturdy legal precedence which MP3tunes can use to battle for the legality of our online music storage service." "The parallels to Cablevision are striking with the primary difference being they're video and we're music. Both are services storing your personal content and playing it back for you," Robertson wrote in a post on his blog. Robertson adds that the pending suit against his company is being heard by the same federal court that delivered the Cablevision ruling.

San Francisco - A Bronx woman sued by the major record labels for file-sharing copyright infringement has taken the novel approach of challenging the constitutionality of the Copyright Act, the law under which she was sued, Wired.com reports.

Toronto, Canada - A Canadian court in Quebec has served an injunction against file-sharing service Quebectorrent.com, effectively shutting down the site that claimed around 50,000 users, Billboard reports. The Quebec Superior Court took the actions after a lawsuit was filed by a local Quebec trade group representing the music industry.

New York - Major label EMI has settled the ringtone royalty lawsuit it filed in January against mobile content distributor InfoSpace, MocoNews reported, citing an InfoSpace regulatory filing.

Washington - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that one of the operators of BurnLounge, a digital music distribution service the agency had determined was actually a pyramid scheme, has settled charges and agreed to give up $20,000 in ill-gotten gains.

London - Major record label EMI has filed copyright infringement litigation against online social network Hi5, video site VideoEgg, and ten undisclosed John Doe defendants, TechCrunch reported.

Portland, Ore. - A federal judge has awarded an Oregon woman $107,834 in attorneys' fees to compensate for her expenses in a file-sharing copyright lawsuit that the record labels eventually dropped. The attorney for exonerated defendant Tanya Andersen had sought nearly $300,000 in attorneys' fees, while lawyers for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had argued that that amount was excessive, and instead asked the court to award just $30,000 in fees.

San Francisco - In his latest effort to control use of his music and likeness on the Internet, recording artist Prince has served a lawsuit on the creators of a 81-track cover song tribute compilation -- made in honor of Prince's 50th birthday on June 7 -- and demanded that all copies be destroyed, The Daily Swarm reported, citing the Norwegian daily Dagbladet.

New York - XM Satellite Radio (NASD: XMSR) announced on Thursday that it has settled a lawsuit brought by EMI Music Publishing over the Pioneer Inno, a portable satellite radio with advanced recording features.

Los Angeles - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has recently begun increasing its settlement amount offers to students who refuse to immediately settle and instead file motions or take the RIAA to court to challenge charges they illegally shared music online, Ars Technica reported.

London - In what is thought will become the first prosecution in the U.K. involving pre-release music, a London-based DJ and music critic has been arrested on suspicion of theft and money laundering in connection with his alleged selling of 150 pre-release albums on eBay, according to a statement from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a record label trade group.

Hanhzhou, China - Chinese digital music distributor 5fad.com announced on Wednesday that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against leading Chinese search engine Baidu (NASD: BIDU) in federal court in New York. Baidu has been the target of a number of lawsuits from record labels in its home country of China, but this suit filed by 5fad appears to be the first such action to be accepted for review by a U.S. federal court, in this case the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Washington - XM Satellite Radio (NASD: XMSR) said on Tuesday that it has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against the company by major record label EMI Music over its portable satellite radio with advanced recording features.