» "It's copywrong, bitch!", or Where are ye, O Public Domain: The EU proposes extending copyright periods from 50 years to 95 years, to the dismay of much of the interweb generation. The EU commissioner argues that extended copyrights are the only way to save the session musicians of old. A very convincing argument against this makes up much of Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture. Lessig, who is also the founder of Creative Commons, makes the argument that within fourteen years (the US' original copyright term), the piece in question quickly becomes unsellable, and then the copyright acts only as a restriction against further usage that would be non-economic. Also: Copyrights start to sound like drugs and sex.

» Marilyn Manson, in his endless attempt to be super badass, released his own brand of Absinthe (wiki), Mansinthe, back in August. Epicurious recently told us that his version of the legendarily badass beverage is as shitty as its name is stupid.

» XFM (different from the US' XM) has decided to sell off its British terrestial radio licenses, which it had begun purchasing in 2004 to expand out of its digital business. The cutbacks come from a general cutback on their part, including a few of its digital stations. A lot of stuff is moving around in terms of radio and has been for a while now. The most recent change stateside is the FCC's plan to let AM stations that were previously limited to broadcasting during the day send their signal out over FM at night.

» Violin virtuoso David Garrett broke a million dollar violin after hitting the bottom of a long flight of stairs with it on his back. He seemed pretty optomistic, perhaps partially because he got to play a loaned Stativarius in the mean time.

» Markets everywhere: Someone has found value in owning Shakira's old bra, about 3,000 dollars worth. The bra, which does not come with any part of Shakira herself, was sold to benifit some kids somewhere, and some real-creeps fan. Also in nursing: Dolly Parton gives credit to her own "Shock and Awe" for her success.

» The Rest, in short: Google trends reveals that people think Tina Turner is real old; Babies pick shit about movies and songs and stuff; No one likes Lily Allen's new show (even her MYSPACE FRIENDS!); Gorillaz film/documentary premieres at the Berlin Film Festival; Tom Jones says that the article in the Daily Mirror about his insured chest-hair was fabricated; Thank ya! Turns out Godspeed You! Black Emperor has not broken up; Sasquatch Festival announces dates; Guitar learns to tune itself; Britney is "too sad" to be made fun of, according to Monty Python; Aretha pissed that Tina gets the title of "Queen"; Boston is not feeling Huck's usage of their jam; New Aerosmith version of Guitar Hero will have thirty of their tracks.

» Obits, in short: "Australia's first cowboy" Smoky Dawson, 94; Folk-singer Willie Bennett, 56.