Tag: copyright
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Steve Albini faces up to the music industry (again)
Great if long video / transcript of Steve Albini’s speech at Face The Music in Melbourne which echoes his classic ‘The Problem With Music’ from 21 years ago. Although I’d not describe Prince’s music as ‘poison’ I do think the purple dwarf’s attitude to the internet is poisonous, and all the people who try and…
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Cease and Desist Mark 2: Beastles gets pulled by the blue meanies
Years ago, on a different host and a different URL I got a Cease and Desist from EMI via the MCPS-PRS for a mashup I did…interestingly I haven’t been hassled since then, til now. I’m mirroring the Beastles ‘Ill Submarine’ and it seems the RIAA & Universal is leading an attack on it, despite the…
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American study finds file sharers buy 30% more music not less
This study’s findings isn’t new nor the first music sharing study to find this fact out. But still the music industry says the bug eyed monster is file sharing and sues it’s most fervent fans for sharing music which actually leads to more sales, not less. This has been proved also in other digital markets…
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Kids, Lawns and Unhappy Campers
I must say this is a strange one – a NPR intern writes that she’s not owned many albums in her life but has 11,000 songs – fairly typical for that generation, as much as you might deplore it. Then Oscar the Grouch, sorry David Lowery comes along and his long toilet-roll rant about how…
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Everything is a Remix
Dunno how I missed Everything is a Remix series on copyright and ideas by Kirby Ferguson – especially the last episode which spells out some of the big issues for copyright and IP law (and also includes The Kleptones in it!). With the world in need of good ideas how to stop climate change, how…