I went to the music/bookstore this week, and it was a hassle I don’t want to go through again. Once I made my way through the crowds and found the items I was looking for, the clerk could not ring them up because they were missing barcodes and apparently the only way to purchase something from this store is to use the barcode scanner. There was no option (they said) for manual entry. How archaic. It’s nice to see some things progressing though.

A federal appeals court in New York ruled that a Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, a defeat for Sony Corp’s BMG Music.

In a case closely watched by the recording industry, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 jury verdict that Launchcast, a webcasting service run by Yahoo’s Launch Media Inc unit, did not give listeners enough control to be an “interactive service” that would require the fees.

Finally. I hope to see more rulings like this in the future.

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