Winehouse must go to Norway court
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Singer Amy Winehouse is ordered to appear in court in Norway to appeal against a fine for drug possession.
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Norway's supreme court ruled Thursday that a student whose Napster.no homepage was linked to free Internet music files must compensate the music industry.
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Lawyers for director Roman Polanski say he should be allowed to fight a libel case in the UK from France.
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Amy Winehouse's second album, Back to Black, is set to be the biggest-selling album of the year.
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Troubled British pop singer Amy  Winehouse will perform at Sunday's Grammy Awards live via  satellite from London, after the U.S. government rejected her  visa application to attend the music industry's biggest night  of the year in Los Angeles, organizers said on Friday.
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"She's paid the fine, so this thing is over for us now."  British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was arrested in Norway for marijuana possession and held overnight, a police official said Friday. via Baltimore Sun
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BERGEN, Norway (Times, London) - Amy Winehouse resumed her European tour yesterday after spending the night in a Norwegian police station for possession of cannabis. The singer, whose career has been dogged by accounts of drink and drugs abuse, was arrested with her husband at an hotel room in Bergen. Police were called after staff at the Radisson SAS hotel smelt the drug coming from the room occupied by Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil. They joined a growing roll call of foreigners who have fallen victim to strong antidrug laws in Scandinavia. They were released from custody and paid a fine after spending 12 hours in jail. Winehouse and her husband paid a Â500 (Â£350) fine between them. Police said that they had found seven grams (0.25oz) of marijuana in their hotel room.
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Phil Spector may soon have to face the music in court.
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Police question singer Amy Winehouse in connection with a video apparently showing her smoking crack.
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Rogue Valley wine shippers hope the US Supreme Court agrees with arguments presented Tuesday on behalf of small wineries. The high court was told state laws barring people from buying wine directly from out
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(InfoWorld) - Just because three major online music retailers bind their music stores to specific portable players doesn't make it acceptable, a Norwegian consumer group leading the charge against Apple's DRM (digital rights management) policy says. "ITunes Music Store and others are unfair to consumers no matter how many download services follow the proprietary approach," wrote Torgeir Waterhouse, a senior advisor at The Norwegian Consumer Council, in response to a letter written by Apple CEO Steve Jobs andÂ posted on the Apple Web siteÂ on Tuesday. Jobs examined why DRM exists and discusses alternatives to the current set-up in his open response to calls for Apple to allow users to buy songs from the iTunes store and play them on any device. Norway's consumer representative hasÂ threatened legal action against AppleÂ for violating Norwegian law by limiting iTunes customers to playing their music only on iPods. Consumer groups in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, and Germany haveÂ joined Norway's complaintÂ against Apple. Jobs points out that Microsoft and Sony also sell music that can only be played on their players, supporting a model that serves customers well with choice and a continuing stream of innovative products. He also suggests that groups like Waterhouse's "redirect their energies" toward convincing the music labels to sell music without DRM, technology that aims to restrict how buyers can copy or use the music. The four biggest record labels forced Apple to employ a proprietary DRM system as a condition of the agreement that allows Apple to sell their music, he said. Ideally, he said, the labels wouldn't require DRM. "This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat," Jobs wrote. While Waterhouse agrees that the record companies carry some fault for the situation, the iTunes music store and others like it are ultimately responsible. "They're still the company that's selling music to the consumers and are responsible for offering a fair deal according to Norwegian law," he said. Still, with his letter, Jobs' appears to have stirred up some additional pressure on the record labels to change their DRM policies. EMusic.com Inc., which claims to be the second largest music download site, only sells DRM-free music from thousands of independent labels. But the site would like be able to sell music from the four biggest labels. "We are hopeful the remaining four will one day join [the independent labels] by licensing their complete catalogs and reap the benefits of consumer demand," David Pakman, president and CEO of eMusic, wrote in a response to Jobs' letter. Even though Jobs didn't hint that a solution might be impending, Waterhouse appeared to see a glimmer of hope. "If this means that Apple is willing to the kick the lock in technology from the [iTunes/iPod] combination this is really good news -- news that should be put into action as soon as possible to bring us all one important step closer to a well functioning digital society," he wrote.
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The U.S. government might not be a big fan of Amy Winehouse, but the troubled British pop singer will likely receive some long-distance love from the music industry when the Grammy Awards are handed out on Sunday.
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Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has refused to go to a rehabilitation   centre to beat her alleged heroin and cocaine addiction without her husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
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Amy Winehouse will not perform at the Grammy Awards this weekend because she's been refused permission to touch down on American soil, according to her publicist   "The singer has been invited to appear at the event on Sunday after receiving an amazi...
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British singer Amy Winehouse, who has publicly battled drug addiction, has been arrested for marijuana possession in Norway and briefly held by police.
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Amy Winehouse, beset by allegations of substance abuse, entered a rehabilitation facility Thursday to battle drug addiction.
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Lawyers for Michael Jackson have asked a California judge to conduct behind closed doors a key hearing into accusations of past sex offenses by the singer, along with all other proceedings involving evidence in the case.