The Future of Ideas is now Free
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| After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, Random House,
| they've agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative
| Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You can download the book for free
| here, or above.
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http://lessig.org/blog/2008/01/the_future_of_ideas_is_now_fre.html
Against Intellectual Monopoly
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| It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and
| patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions
| such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and
| movies. In fact intellectual property is a government grant of a costly and
| dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example
| that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical
| matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty.
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http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
RIAA Sends Institute 19 Settlement Letters Alleging Infringement
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| One MIT student who has received a letter from the RIAA said last week that
| he planned not to settle and that he would fight the RIAA’s attempts to learn
| his identity. To date, no MIT students are known to have gone to court — all
| have paid the pre-litigation settlement or have settled after the RIAA has
| sent a subpoena to MIT.
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N64/riaa.html
Here's one who downplays a new economy:
DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble
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| So now it's a good idea to give away music in the hope that people will think
| you're so cool that they'll pay anyway. Right. There were reports that many
| people did pay for Radiohead's album, but I'll be surprised if that's
| repeated very often. Also, not every band is Radiohead or Coldplay—groups
| that can make money elsewhere (like concert halls). How many bands are
| touring these days? The ones making money could probably be counted on a
| couple of hands, and none have the drawing power of teen music queen Hannah
| Montana.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2251666,00.asp
Related:
Radiohead, 'Juno' blast onto U.S. pop chart
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| Radiohead's “In Rainbows” album topped the U.S. sales chart this week,
| selling 122,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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| It arrived in stores in CD format on New Year's Day, nearly three months
| after the artsy British rock group unleashed the album to the Web at a cost
| to be determined by the user -- whatever price fans chose to pay, including
| nothing at all.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/extendedplay/2008/01/radiohead-juno.html
Free Radiohead music pirated
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| Big Champagne, a Los-Angeles-based company that tracks illegal downloading on
| the Internet said that while 1.2 million people legitimately downloaded the
| album online, 500,000 picked it up from torrent sites.
|
| [....]
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| It has also had more copies sold. Radiohead's previous album sold only
| 300,000 copies in the first week.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/18/free-radiohead-music-pirated
Radiohead album bets on fast release, open pricing
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| The release of popular rock group Radiohead's new album next week is the
| latest wake-up call for a music industry still struggling to deal with the
| advent of digital music, experts say.
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http://www.news.com/Radiohead-album-bets-on-fast-release%2C-open-pricing/2100-1025_3-6212107.html?tag=nefd.top
Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD
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| The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free
| CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn
| widespread criticism from music retailers.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2114557,00.html
Defendant: RIAA abusing courts to shore up "failing business model"
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| After the lawsuit was filed, Njuguna said she boxed up the PC reportedly used
| for infringement and purchased a new one. She then filed a series of
| counterclaims to the RIAA's lawsuit in an attempt to have the lawsuit
| dismissed and her name cleared. One of those accuses the record labels of
| failing to negotiate in good faith.
|
| [...]
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| Njugana also accuses the RIAA of engaging in deceptive and unfair trade
| practices, arguing that the record labels have demonstrated repeated behavior
| that has an "adverse effect on the public interest." She also cites former
| RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen's lawsuit (which seeks class-action status) as
| evidence that, unless the courts step in at some point, the RIAA will
| continue its campaign.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070913-defendant-riaa-abusing-courts-to-shore-up-failing-business-model.html
The RIAA will come to regret its court win
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| And, he told his blog readers: "If [the industry tries to] keep up the
| strategy of 'you need us badly and therefore we make the rules' you will lose
| the artists, their managers... and the audience. Another 12 months for this
| Radiohead experiment to become the default approach. Get engaged or get
| outmoded. And do it soon."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/08/0810_riaa_comment/
Mom Sues Universal Music for DMCA Abuse
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against Universal
| Music Publishing Group (UMPG), asking a federal court to protect the fair use
| and free speech rights of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler
| son dancing to a Prince song on the Internet.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10869/mom-sues-universal-music-dmca-abuse
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