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* SBC Communications Inc. agreed to pay the U.S. government $500,000 to end an investigation into how the company used federal subsidies for Internet access in schools.

* Warner Music Group is selling its sheet music and educational materials unit to closely held Alfred Publishing of Van Nuys so the record label can focus on signing artists and songwriters. Terms weren’t disclosed.

* Warner Music Group said it received a subpoena from New York Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer as part of an industrywide probe into the promotion of songs on the radio.