More on Doug Morris, the Big Four, and Music Industry News

* Coolfer, your local music industry blog, has posted some reactions to Seth Mnookin's profile of Doug Morris, ranging from New York Mag's fiercely bitchy reaction to Silicon Valley Insider's relatively tame "UMG is full of people with no foresight, but few people have foresight anyway." Also, Bob Lefsetz, the notorious industry gossip, has posted an "anonymous" reaction to the Morris interview on his site. Nothing says funny like a pissed off employee.
* WMG is trying to create essentially 360 deal with Frank Sinatra. Has anyone told Edgar Bronfman, Jr. that Frank Sinatra died?
* Pitchfork is going to be the indie rock MTV...soon...
* EMI, one of the Big Four record companies left in the world, is considering halving its contribution to the RIAA, the industry's formal lobbying group in America. It no longer sees the point of contributing its annual $25M to the RIAA, IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), and the BPI (British Phonographic Industry), and Terra Firma, EMI's parent group, wants to conserve what little money is not being burned up by the second.
* And the RIAA and MPAA are fiercely lobbying to get presidential candidates to pledge greater copyright and intellectual property protection as part of their platforms.