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ASCAP Working To Shut Up Free Culture Supporters
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| Well, gosh darn it. Apparently, folks who believe that freeing up your music
| can help you make more money are actually the enemy of musicians everywhere.
| At least that appears to be the opinion of ASCAP, the group that's supposed
| to represent songwriters' interests -- but often does the exact opposite. The
| latest is that ASCAP has put together a private luncheon for February 3rd...
| and on the agenda: "working together to counter the growing prevalence of
| the 'copy left/free culture' pontificators in the public discourse about
| creators rights."
|
| Wow.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090125/2201473533.shtml
More Bands Suffering From Warner Music's YouTube Demands
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| We've already covered how some Warner Music musicians are pissed off about
| Warner Music demanding more money for its music showing up on YouTube, and
| now it's also causing additional problems for musicians. For example, the
| band Death Cab for Cutie has YouTube videos of its music on its own
| website... but not after Warner Music's actions forced them offline.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090125/2328523534.shtml
Recent:
How Open Source could save the Media Industry
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| Youtube was a brilliant idea. Allow users to sign up for accounts and upload
| video after video after video. Without dolling out so much as a penny Youtube
| managed to gather millions of user-created videos that other users could
| watch and enjoy (or not). It was content created by the masses at no charge
| to the owner.
| But if you read the licensing close enough you realize that basically once
| you upload a video you can not modify said video (or any aspect of the
| youtube experience). You can not redistribute user videos on Youtube even
| though the user may have no copyright on the video.
|
| [...]
|
| Take a look at what Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails did with their Ghosts
| I-IV recordings. Not only did he release these albums in a “Pay for it if you
| like it scheme” (which, by the way, netted him over $750,000 in three days
| after releasing) he also released the music and artwork under a creative
| commons license which allowed the fans to remix the music and alter the
| artwork. His fans ate it up. This culminated in his allowing fans to video
| tape the last leg of his Lights In The Sky tour. He eventually released the
| videos for the fans to enjoy and edit.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=319
let the remixes begin (UPDATED)
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| Sam did the first remix of my Colbert appearance.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/01/let_the_remixes_begin.html
The Culture of Free, and The Power of Less
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| A few people on other websites have commented on the irony of me selling a
| book (The Power of Less) about working and doing and living with less, saying
| something along the lines of:
|
| “Yes, I’m going to live with less … starting with not buying books!”
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http://zenhabits.net/2009/01/the-culture-of-free-and-the-power-of-less/
Taxing ISPs To Fund Newspapers?
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| In trying to explain why a music tax is a bad idea, I pointed out that if you
| start with music, you quickly have to start adding pretty much every industry
| disrupted by the internet. The obvious one is movies, but what about
| newspapers? They're struggling due to the internet, so why can't they demand
| an ISP tax to support newspapers? The idea, of course, is that this was a
| ludicrous suggestion... but apparently some people have thought seriously
| about it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090105/0129403284.shtml
RIAA Stops Suing Individuals: Are We Home Free?
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| Instead of its usual strategy of pinning scofflaws and wringing them through
| the court system, the RIAA will shift the burden to ISPs. When it appears as
| though an ISP customer is downloading illegally, the RIAA will contact the
| ISP and it will now be the ISP's responsibility to slap wrists via e-mail. If
| the actions do not cease, more e-mails will come; until finally, the alleged
| criminal's Internet access is either watered down or shut off, or they see
| themselves in court.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/155769/riaa_p2p_lawsuits.html?tk=rss_news
Internet Filtering Appearing On Various Wishlists For Obama
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| It's tough to get that worked up about the various "wishlists" being sent by
| different interest groups to President-elect Obama. After all, you'd expect
| the groups to basically push for their entire agenda, and there's no
| indication that an Obama administration will agree to any of these -- but
| it's still worth watching. For example, the MPAA's wishlist includes plenty
| of forced filtering and a "three strikes" policy that Europe recently
| rejected as taking away basic human rights (there's that MPAA spirit!).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081210/1826113082.shtml
Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break
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| Censorship technologies are purveyed as a way to protect us from the evils of
| child abuse. But they're costly systems that are unlikely to actually protect
| anyone or prevent any child abuse — they're more likely to interfere with the
| way the Internet works and hamper innovation by online communities.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/internet-censors-must-be-accountable-things-they-b
Labor plan to censor internet in shreds
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| The Government's plan to censor the internet is in tatters, with Australia's
| largest ISP saying it will not take part in live trials of the system and the
| second largest committing only to a scaled-back trial.
|
| And the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to critics
| saying that the so-called "live" trials would be "a closed network test and
| will not involve actual customers". Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said this was
| a sign the Government was slowly backing away from the heavily criticised
| policy.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/labor-plan-to-censor-internet-in-shreds/2008/12/09/1228584820006.html
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