101.   The battle over copyrights and royalties between the recording companies and online music sites such as Napster is still raging.

102.   The biggest players in the music and technology industries announced an unprecedented flurry of deals last week that showed they were finally ready to join the online music dance.

103.   The commission focused its demands almost entirely on preventing the merged company from dominating online music distribution.

104.   The company last week started signing subscribers for real time stock quotes and announced it would offer a fee-based online music store.

105.   The company will also launch its online music subscription service, MusicNet, in November.

106.   The deal will give Bertelsmann a recognized brand in online music sales as it attempts to expand its electronic commerce business.

107.   The first payments for companies that play music online are due in November.

108.   The growing consumer interest in downloading and listening to music online is good news for the various types of companies that already have seats at the table.

109.   The market for online music is potentially huge.

110.   The major record companies have created two joint ventures, Pressplay and MusicNet, that they plan to use to distribute online music to which they hold copyrights.