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Music industry unleashes more lawsuits in Europe (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - The music industry launched a new wave of lawsuits and criminal proceedings against file-sharers across Europe on Tuesday, part of its drive to curb online piracy and encourage the use of legal music services.

GM's sales fall more than 14%; industry slips 2.9% (USA Today) - General Motors posted a 14.4% sales decrease in U.S. auto sales in March compared with the same month last year, while the industry overall saw a slight 2.9% decline, Autodata reported Monday.

Biodiesel Industry Gets Boost From Big Oil (AP via Yahoo! News) - The tiny biodiesel industry received a boost from Big Oil on Monday when a major petroleum refiner, Motiva Enterprises LLC, began blending the soy-based alternative with traditional motor fuel at a Dallas terminal.

Newspapers Hope to Turn Industry Malaise (AP via Yahoo! News) - Telling stories is still the lifeblood of the newspaper business, but industry executives are worried they're not doing a good job explaining one of the biggest stories of the day: The turmoil roiling their own industry.

Greens, industry clash again on EU biotech policy (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Environmental group Friends of the Earth on Monday accused the European Commission of favoring the biotech industry in its vision of how GMO crops could be grown alongside organic and traditional types.

Broken Social Scene slams music industry, Idol following Juno win (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - HALIFAX (CP) - Time for a power shuffle in the Canadian music industry?

GM, Ford Lead Industry's First Sales Decline of 2006 (Update10) (Bloomberg.com) - April 3 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the biggest U.S. automakers, sold fewer vehicles in March as they tried to rely less on fleet buyers such rental agencies, leading to the industry's first monthly decline this year.

Newspapers Hope to Turn Industry Malaise (ABC News) - Newspaper Association of America Hopes to Turn Around Industry Malaise

Telling an industry's tale through entrepreneurs' eyes (Miami Herald) - Stories such as the one Jane Bussey tells today in her cover story, ''An Industry Unravels'' (page 26), often get lost amid billion-dollar trade statistics and global trade deals.

'Industry in Art' documents a smoky city's artists (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Rina C. Youngner's new book, "Industry in Art -- Pittsburgh, 1812 to 1920," isn't a history of smoke, but it does tell the story of how it and the buildings from which it so gloriously and noxiously emanated have been depicted over the course of more than a century.