[Archive 2007-05-21] Wikinews Shorts: May 21, 2007

Historical archive — originally published 2007-05-21. This report records what was known on that date. It is not current news; subsequent events may have changed the situation. Wikinews closed in May 2026.

International music company EMI has agreed to a £3.2 billion ($4.7 billion) (including debt) merger with private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd.

The deal likely ends, Warner Music Group Group's, the global music market's fourth largest record company, seven years of trying take over EMI, the third largest record company in the world.

Terra Firma shareholders have not yet approved of a 265-per-share offer which was recommended by EMI.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has agreed to remove restrictions on television ads in Canada by September 1, 2009. The current 12 minutes-per-hour restriction on commercial time is to be lifted and the advertising time will be market-driven.

The CRTC said the ability to have market-driven commercials will help with the increasing amount of competing television networks in Canada, and it will create more revenue.

MySpace is set to release names and data about registered sex offenders who use the popular social networking site. The information will be released to all the State Attorney Generals in the United States.

Last week Attorney Generals from eight U.S. states requested the information but MySpace said it would break federal privacy laws.

Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. along with MySpace teamed up to build a database of users who are sex offenders. They created "Sentinel Safe", a program which shows names of the sex offenders and possible information that could help in future investigations.

Earlier, the U.S. government threatened to sue or shut down the company if it couldn't provide all the names of the 7,000 or more sex offenders using the site.

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