Briefly: Madonna, Ted Nugent, Unwritten Law, Fairtunes.com, Emusic & Napster, Jethro Tull

Published August 1, 2000 04:03 PM
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By / LiveDaily Contributing Editor

Madonna [ tickets ] will give a phone interview to VH1 on Wednesday (8/2). She will also premiere her new video for the song "Music."

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In the San Francisco area with the KISS tour, Ted Nugent [ tickets ] went to a Neiman Marcus store on Sunday (7/30), where an anti-fur protester threatened to kill Nugent during his next hunting trip. The protester was arrested.

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Adult video company Vivid Video is sponsoring Unwritten Law [ tickets ] on its next tour. Vivid says that it is continuing its "juggernaut into mainstream entertainment," which is hard to argue with.

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Matt Goyer and John Carmie, students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, have set up Fairtunes.com, a site that collects money for artists whose music is being traded online without compensation. Webnoize reported that the site has raised about $84.

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Downloadable music site Emusic and file-trading site Napster have been discussing a possible joint venture, according to Reuters.

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Launch reported that jethrotull.com and jethro-tull.com are now the property of the band Jethro Tull [ tickets ], and not of a Florida man who tried to sell the names to the band for $13,000. The World Intellectual Property Organization made the ruling after frontman Ian Anderson filed suit.

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