Beggars can be choosers.(Dooley's Diary)

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Beggars' new media head honcho Simon Wheeler was as surprised as anyone to find a large chunk of the record company's catalogue up on MyCokeMusic's website last week without clearance. "As we are a Mac-only office, we only found out last Tuesday and it was a total shock," Wheeler told Dooley at Midem. "We wanted to talk to all our artists and labels first and explain what it is all about first" ... TVT boss Steve Gottlieb had a busy schedule--flying from Cannes to London to Helsinki before heading back to NYC--and big plans when Dooley caught up with him last week. Looks like the millions he's expecting to earn from his Lyor Cohen court case will be put to good use ... Always the lawyer, John Kennedy's Midem keynote managed to put a positive spin on 90% of China's music market being made op of pirated product--as he notes, the People's Republic has a middle class of 300m people with plenty of disposable income. "There is still a one child per family rule that means each child has two working parents and then four grandparents with only one grandchild", he noted ... Perhaps the most amazing slat of Midem came from Apple's Eddy Cue who revealed that one iTunes user has bought 28,000 downloads, at 99c each After he had spent his first $2,000, Apple called the customer up to check there had been no mistake. "I'm just a big music fan," came the reply. No kidding ... Spare a thought for those poor souls--Dooley included--who flew back from France last Wednesday night, found the snowbound London airports far from ...