(UPDATED) UK shakes up copyright laws, scraps plan to block websites. Will introduce  digital exchange where licenses for copyright works may be bought and sold. (Reuters) The U.S. could learn from this.

• VEVO adds to a growing list of syndication partners: ArtistDirect.com/Rogue Network (music news), Batanga (Hispanic music news), Gorilla Leak (indie music), MeFeedia (video recommendations) and Canadian TV properties Entertainment Tonight Canada and AUX.tv (Glassbox.tv). Synacor, a white-label entertainment portal will also add VEVO in the coming weeks.
• Turntable.fm gets $7.5 million from Union Square Ventures. (BetaBeat)

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• Developers believe Google+ can beat Facebook. (CNet) Google+ has signed up 25 million users in its first month but still not releases a brand/band friendly account.
• Why did Facebook just buy and ebook publisher? (NY Times)
• Deezer, the Orange-backed digital music service based in Paris, plans to launch the brand in the UK in the coming weeks, in a direct challenge to Spotify. (Marketing UK)
• Friday August 5 is the deadline for artists to sign up to win a chance to open for Ne Yo thanks to  ReverbNation and Mission One Voice. Details here.