Reuters - British songwriters, composers and music publishers earned 623 million pounds ($944.8 million) in royalties in 2009, up 2.6 percent on 2008 and the first time the growth in digital revenues outperformed the drop in CD and DVD earnings.

Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.

AP - THE SERVICE: OnLive will let you stream popular high-end games over the Internet, using a mechanism similar to watching TV shows or listening to music online.

AP - In an industry first, a new gaming service will start allowing people to stream popular high-end games such as Assassin's Creed II over the Internet in June, using a mechanism similar to watching TV shows or listening to music online.

AP - Pink Floyd has begun legal action against music label EMI Group Ltd. over the way royalty payments are calculated in the digital era.

Record industry bosses hit back Tuesday at the myth that musicians no longer need them to become successful, insisting the Internet can help raise their profile but cannot make them stars.

Reuters - Pink Floyd on Tuesday launched legal action against record label EMI in a case that centres around royalty payments and how music is sold in the digital age.

BusinessWeek - A first semester in business school is probably best summed up through some sort of interpretive dance.Refusing to be confined to words only, I am supplementing this entry with music.My B-school Playlist (downloadable here) is a song collection recapping my first semester. 1) Jordin Sparks, Battlefield Business school is the most intense thing I have done -- and that includes fleeing a war-torn country. The pace of classes is brutal and the amount of learning intense. As a career-switcher, I've had to add researching companies and pursuing informational interviews to my plate.

Reuters - The sequel to Phantom of the Opera, one of the biggest musicals of all time, opens in London on Tuesday amid disquiet among die-hard phans who have been posting opinions online since previews began two weeks ago.

AP - Microchip Technology Inc. on Monday raised its purchase price for Silicon Storage Inc. a second time, competing with a private-equity firm for the maker of flash memory cards used in digital cameras and MP3 players.