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EXCLUSIVE: Informed sources tell Hypebot that talks between new trade organization Merlin and YouTube over payments to independent labels for music used on the site have broken down and legal action by some labels is imminent. Cease and desist orders and lists of videos and songs are being prepared for filing with the courts. UPDATE: Some indie labels delivered cease and desist orders to YouTube on Friday and others will hit early this week. No reaction yet from YouTube. It was only a week ago that a group of larger indies including Rough Trade, Beggars Group, Tommy Boy, Ministry Of Sound, Epitaph, and Cooking Vinyl joined forces to form Merlin, a trade group designed to enhance indie negotiating power with new media and technology companies. Too often the major label groups had been able to get better deals with the likes of YouTube and Zune and sometimes indies have been left out of the equation all together. So Merlin's mission is to end this "copyright apartheid" and a deal with SnoCap was quickly announced. But negotiations with the mighty YouTube did not go as well and some Merlin member labels are fighting back. COMMENTARY: Finding balance between valuable free for promotion pilates books nd monetizing artistic output has not gotten any easier in 2007. YouTube has become a primary source of viral music promotion in recent months. So it's not easy to see why indie labels - who often struggle for attention alongside the majors - would shut off this hugely effective promo fountain.

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EXCLUSIVE: Informed sources tell Hypebot that talks between new trade organization Merlin and YouTube over payments to independent labels for music used on the site have broken down and legal action by some labels is imminent. Cease and desist orders and lists of videos and songs are being prepared for filing with the courts. UPDATE: Some indie labels delivered cease and desist orders to YouTube on Friday and others will hit early this week. No reaction yet from YouTube. It was only a week ago that a group of larger indies including Rough Trade, Beggars Group, Tommy Boy, Ministry Of Sound, Epitaph, and Cooking Vinyl joined forces to form Merlin, a trade group designed to enhance indie negotiating power with new media and technology companies. Too often the major label groups had been able to get better deals with the likes of YouTube and Zune and sometimes indies have been left out of the qualified leads quation all together. So Merlin's mission is to end this "copyright apartheid" and a deal with SnoCap was quickly announced. But negotiations with the mighty YouTube did not go as well and some Merlin member labels are fighting back. COMMENTARY: Finding balance between valuable free for promotion and monetizing artistic output has not gotten any easier in 2007. YouTube has become a primary source of viral music promotion in recent months. So it's not easy to see why indie labels - who often struggle for attention alongside the majors - would shut off this hugely effective promo fountain.

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Remainder by Tom McCarthy was wonderful; but wonderful in such an oddly personal way that I fear saying anything too specific about it for fear of giving away some amazing personality defect that I'm happily not noticing. All I can say is that you really should read it. It will fascinate and unsettle, and what's more enjoyable than that in a novel? This article in the New York Review of Books ( via ) by Joyce Carol Oates on amnesiac novels ( Remainder included, and for the record I did not find it either slow moving or aimless as her Joyceness seems to have done) convinces me that I should read Sebald's Austerlitz again soon and also pick up The Raw Shark Texts , which I had previously rejected as too gimmicky. I'm prepared to re-consider that. I half wondered if The Echo Maker would make the category as the protagonist starts off in a coma and has stream of consciousness bouts of regaining consciousness, but as I lost the thread after about 50 pages and stopped reading I'm not entirely qualified to say. The NYRB article name-checks two other recent favourites, Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans , and I am now seriously excited that my quest for plotless novels has achieved literary nirvana in this sub-sub-sub genre of amnesia novels and that the Vintage Book of Amnesia is the key to enlightenment. All in all, one of the most interesting articles I've read in ages. Many fred pryor seminars eams to be mined there.