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Todays News Bits:

• Amazon.co.uk has confirmed a “pricing error” which resulted in many digital albums being sold for just 29p (47 cents). “We can confirm that there was a pricing error on a small number of MP3 albums,” said the statement. “This issue has been rectified. Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our website, pricing errors can occur.” It remains to be seen whether the incident has any impact on the chart on Sunday (June 21). (Billboard)

• Eddie Van Halen recently filed a lawsuit against Nike, accusing the world-known brand for using the copyrighted striped pattern Van Halen made famous on his “Frankenstein” guitar without permission. The aforementioned striped pattern was used on the mid-sole of the Nike Dunk Low sneakers. Van Halen wants Nike to recall all Nike Dunk Lows with this colorway as well as give up all profits made from the sneaker. (WWD)

• A recap of the third day of the Capitol vs. Thomas-Rasset file-sharing case. “After three years of litigation, after defenses that ranged from a hijacked wireless signal to ‘putting the RIAA on trial’ to fair use to ‘no certified copies, so you lose,’ to a simple ‘I didn’t do it,’ Jammie Thomas-Rasset today told a new story to explain the mountain of forensic and other circumstantial evidence pointing to the conclusion that she had downloaded and distributed over 1,700 songs using Kazaa: I didn’t do it, but it might have been my ex-boyfriend and kids. And who knows? It just might work.” (Copyrights & Campaigns) (See recap for the day 2 here)

• Singer Katy Perry is suing an Australian fashion designer for having a similar name. On Tuesday (June 16), an Australian newspaper reported that local designer, Katie Perry, had been served a cease-and-desist order from lawyers representing Katy Perry, aimed at stopping her from trademarking her birth name for a clothing label. (MTV)

• The National Music Publishers of America’s top legislative initiative for this year is to get law written that will clarify that there is a performance right for audio-visual downloads, the organization’s president and CEO David Israelite said at its annual meeting, held in New York City at the Marriott Hotel on June 17. Israelite said the organization would continue to take on YouTube for its ongoing facilitation of copyright infringement online. (Billboard)

• Spotify is giving its premium members more services: mobile access, bundled downloads, social networking features, better audio quality, recommendations and ticketing. It’s odd that an additional revenue stream, ticketing, is not available to users of the free version. If most users had upgraded to the premium version, that ticketing decision would make sense. But Spotify’s ability to lure users to the paid-for, premium version is in question. An executive from Universal Music Group told a NARM panel audience last week that few Spotify users were upgrading to the premium version. (Tech Digest)