Okay, so again, it's a little early for this stuff, but bear with us—there's a Debbie Gibson joke at the end. Today's Wall Street Journal
breaks down the details of the newly announced YouTube-Warner Brothers licensing deal, which will allow users to raid the label's music archives. Of course, people have been doing this since the site was invented—if you search closely, you can find videos of us robot-dancing to the new Mark Knopfler-Emmylou Harris joint—but now Warner will actually get paid for it, via ad revenue. As for the actual video creators themselves? They get nothin', save for the right to provide free advertising for WB artists. Also, they won't get sued (maybe). What a deal!
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While seeing Disturbed in an "intimate setting" is nearly the least appealing idea I've heard all day, a recent Rolling Stone blog post brought up an odd topic for conversation—is their label keeping them from performing new material?
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Last month, Warner Brothers made a $4.1 billion bid for EMI, which was promptly rejected for being too low. And now, according to Reuters, Warners may be getting cold feet about the proposed deal altogether:
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Warner Music Group had a terrible 
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