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21st Century Piracy: The Demise of the Music Industry | THE WIP 22 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm
EDM artist Victoria Aitken speaks out. The Internet pirates have made me, and thousands of other musicians, walk the plank. We now have to swim in shark-infested waters where the big fish gobble up o...
Why Copyright is a Right and Fair Use is a Privilege | Law Theories 20 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
In this post, I’ll explain why copyright opponents have it exactly backwards when they claim that copyright is a privilege and fair use is a right. At the outset, I note that these terms can have vari...
How Will Musicians Survive In the Spotify Era? | The New Yorker 12 Aug 2013 | 11:34 pm
Sasha Frere-Jones, Dave Allen, Jace Clayton, and Damon Krukowski discuss how (mildly) popular musicians are going to survive. Last month, Damon Krukowski and I discussed Spotify, the public exit of N...
Stop short-changing songwriters | The Hill 12 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
Web streaming is quickly becoming the preferred method for listening to music in this country. And Pandora, with more than 70 million active listeners and about a 70 percent market share, is by far th...
Does Sirius and “Piped in” Airline Music Lead to More Music “Discovery” than Pandora? PT 2 8 Aug 2013 | 12:15 pm
After one get’s past the debate about whether webcasting and streaming pay artists fairly, you find there is a more complicated question. How much of webcasting and streaming is “discovery” and how ...
Does Sirius and “Piped in” Airline Music Lead to More Music “Discovery” than Pandora? 7 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
Readers of this blog know that there is a raging debate over the rates that artists are paid by Streaming and Webcasting services. But underpinning that debate is the notion that certain webcasting...
Lou Reed and Dead Kennedys Go Public Against Ad Funded Piracy with Facebook Posts 2 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
We’d just like to say a very big thank you to both Lou Reed and the Dead Kennedys who publicly posted to Facebook this week our posts showing how they are being exploited by major brands and big tech ...
8 Takeaways from today's IP Subcommittee Hearing 2 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Reblogged from MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY: Every now and then you get a gift from the ether--today's hearing "Innovation in America: The Role of Technology" at the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectu...
Steal a Little: Piracy & the Economy via The Illusion Of More 31 Jul 2013 | 08:31 pm
I’ve wanted a sailing yacht for years but have never been able to afford one — until now. Thanks in part to a report on piracy and counterfeiting by the GAO and this explication by CCIA (Computer & Co...
Repeat after me… “Artists are Innovators!” via VOX INDIE 31 Jul 2013 | 10:01 am
Testimony from copyright hearing highlights what’s at stake for content creators On Thursday (July 25th) the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held another hearing...
