Also . . .

* A federal judge in New York is expected to rule this week on whether MP3.com Inc. willfully violated copyrights and must pay millions in damages to Universal Music Group, the world’s No. 1 record company. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff will rule from the bench following closing arguments. In April, Rakoff ruled that MP3.com had infringed the record companies’ copyrights through its online service.

* Global Crossing Ltd. failed to provide the winning bid for Intermedia Communications Inc. and its majority stake in Web-hosting company Digex Inc., according to Bloomberg News. That paves the way, possibly as soon as Tuesday, for a higher cash-and-stock bid of $2.1 billion, or $39 a share, made by WorldCom Inc., the No. 2 U.S. long-distance company. The companies involved had no comment.

* Tens of thousands of flight attendants who say they were stricken with cancer from inhaling secondhand tobacco smoke on the job are running out of time to collect any damages from companies. A 1997 settlement that yielded $47 million for their lawyer and $300 million for research didn’t give them a dime. They now have until Thursday to file individual lawsuits for compensatory damages. Between 60,000 and 145,000 flight attendants are eligible to sue Philip Morris and other big tobacco companies. As of last week, only about 1,500 had done so.