Jill Scott [ tickets ] will rejoin the Sting tour in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday (5/15), Billboard.com reported. Scott reportedly fell ill with a lung infection, and has been off the tour for about two weeks.

The House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property has scheduled hearings for Thursday (5/17) regarding the major record labels' goal of starting online music subscription services, CNet.com reported.

Among those giving testimony on behalf of songwriters and music publishers--who fear that such services will not guarantee them proper royalties--are Lyle Lovett and a representative from National Music Publishers' Association. Also giving testimony will be Edgar Bronfman Jr., executive vice chairman of major label Vivendi Universal.

The Major Bob Music Publishing Group, publisher of Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood songs, has sued MP3.com for copyright infringement, and is seeking an unspecified amount, according to Sonicnet.

According to the Associated Press, Paul McCartney [ tickets ] told Radio Times that he had requested that "Yesterday," the classic song that he penned for the Beatles, be credited with his name first for the Beatles' "Anthology"--the song, as with all of his and John Lennon's songs, was credited to "Lennon/McCartney"--but Lennon's widow Yoko Ono refused.

McCartney is quoted as saying, "At one point Yoko earned more from 'Yesterday' than I did."

According to Inside.com, Warner Bros.' television network will feature a mid-season replacement show entitled "Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rockstar," starring John Lydon, best known as the Sex Pistols' frontman Johnny Rotten, as the father of a teenage son.

With this bit of news, those of us who have refused to accept the truth that, in the end, All Roads Lead to Television may finally give in. This writer, at least, has already downloaded Birthright!®, a template for sitcom scripts, and is writing a pilot called "Yours Truly, Mr. Briefly."