Today, the Copyright Royalty Board—a panel of three lofty judges overseeing federal copyright law—will likely approve a request by the National Music Publisher’s Association to raise the royalty rate paid on digital music sales by 66 percent. Now iTunes will owe 15 cents per track, instead of just nine. That’s a big deal. So big, in fact, that when the Publisher’s Association originally put in the request last year, Apple threatened to close down iTunes if it was approved. Its argument is simple: Apple only makes 29 cents from the sale of each song—the rest goes to record companies, and nine cents of that goes to publishers. If they were forced to pay 15 cents, they’d be operating iTunes at a loss.  read more »

iTunes and Starbucks are teaming up to release the John Lennon video collection digitally, according to NME. The John Lennon Video Album is due out December 4, and features 21 videos including "Imagine," "Working Class Hero," and "Give Peace a Chance." Get a preview of the videos on Mr. Lennon's official site.

You'll have to buy a iTunes Digital Release Card with your next Pumpkin Spiced Latte at Starbucks, to download the album.

Full tracklisting of videos after the jump.  read more »