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Flaming Lips offer free recordings with concert tix
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| For several years now, musical artists have been experimenting with selling
| flash drives of concert recordings immediately after the show, but the
| Flaming Lips--whose latest tour starts this Saturday in Del Mar, Calif.--are
| taking it to the obvious next level.
|
| Buy a ticket, and they'll send you a download code for six songs--three new
| ones from their upcoming album "Embryonic" (nice album cover!) and three B
| sides from old singles.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10309659-27.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
It Ain't The Link, It's What You Do With The Traffic
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| So, no, getting a single site to link to you isn't that meaningful, and won't
| drive that much traffic initially (or even repeat traffic), but as you build
| up your reputation, and get linked multiple times in multiple places, and
| then build up credibility based on your content and your community then
| people start to come back.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090813/1841085874.shtml
Ben's Reply to Bill
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| I want to close by coming back to your statement that "copyright doesnât
| create economic value[;]...it is only consumersâ willingness to but something
| that creates economic value." If you mean to say that the fact that, say, a
| book, is protected by copyright doesn't mean that people will want to buy it,
| I completely agree. No amount of copyright protection can make people want to
| purchase lousy products. But I hope we can also agree that providing
| copyright protection, and, just as important, providing a means for enforcing
| that protection, is necessary to ensure that creators and distributors of
| creative products get paid, and have sufficient incentives to create more.
| The Supreme Court's Sony-Betamax decision, while it went against the studios,
| did hold that copyright must protect the "copyright holderâs legitimate
| demand for effective -- not merely symbolic -- protection of the statutory
| monopoly" (emphasis mine).
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http://moralpanicsandthecopyrightwars.blogspot.com/2009/08/bens-reply-to-bill.html
Related:
Don't just buy the music, fans told - now you can invest in big names of the
future
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| The music executives behind Kaiser Chiefs and Primal Scream are backing a new
| website that will allow music fans to invest financially as well as
| emotionally in hotly tipped new acts.
|
| The venture, dreamed up by a music business lawyer and backed by the founder
| of Friends Reunited, is being billed as the latest innovative funding model
| that could provide artists with an alternative to major labels.
|
| Bandstocks will let the public buy a stake in an artist in Â10 increments.
| Once funding reaches a preordained level, for example Â100,000, the money
| will be released for the act to record an album.
|
| Investors will get a copy of the album, a credit on the CD sleeve and a
| percentage of the profits from its sale and licensing. They will also get
| priority ticket booking and the opportunity to buy limited edition releases.
| For the artist, founder Andrew Lewis claimed that Bandstocks would offer a
| better return than a major-label deal, as well as more freedom and control
| over copyright.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/27/musicindustry.investing
Antipiracy Campaign Exasperates Colleges
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| Now, feeling burdened and betrayed, some of those universities are quietly
| fighting back, resisting requests for information and trying to quash
| subpoenas. Those that do so, though, find that their past compliance â and
| the continued compliance of their peer institutions â is being held against
| them.
|
| "We feel like we've been led down the garden path, and our interest in
| working in partnership and leading our mission as educators is now being used
| against us," said Tracy Mitrano, director of IT policy at Cornell University.
|
| [...]
|
| "At the point where universities finally come to see they're the target of
| this RIAA campaign, that's the point at which they'll start arguing their own
| self-interest," says Charles R. Nesson, founder of the Berkman Center for
| Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He believes the RIAA is trying to
| wear universities down with letters and subpoenas until they give in and
| install filtering software, a policy precedent that the RIAA may then decide
| to use against commercial ISP's.
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http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i49/49a00104.htm
Allman Brothers sue UMG for 'digital exploitation'
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| The popular group, formed in the 1960s, sued UMG Recordings in federal court
| on Monday, claiming it was the victim of "digital exploitation." They are
| asking for a larger cut of recordings sold through third parties, demanding
| at least $13 million and additional royalties from CD sales and digital
| downloads.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10015319-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
One Man's Quest to Digitize and Publicize Rare Vinyl
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| Thousands of recordings that had been largely consigned to the realm of
| prehistory in the digital age have gained a new life, thanks to the tireless
| efforts of one man.
|
| [...]
|
| As the digital music movement started in earnest, Bolling began digitizing
| his records, and posted a list of first 1,500 songs he had digitized so
| fellow collectors could see what kind of progress he had made. Finally, he
| decided to upload MP3s of every song on the list so that he could access them
| from anywhere, and so that curiosity seekers could find them.
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http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/one-mans-quest.html
Ubuntu community head tests music economics with open content
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| Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon, an independent musician and prominent
| figure in the open source software community, is starting a new solo music
| project through which he aims to explore the challenges of distributing music
| under a Creative Commons license. He hopes that his efforts will bring some
| clarity to the copyright debate and provide real answers about how open
| content might change the economics of the music industry.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080624-ubuntu-community-head-tests-music-economics-with-open-content.html
Creative Collaboration: The Open Source Filmmaking Experiment
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| With new collaborative tools available, some filmmakers are opening up their
| work to the participation of others. Tapping into the creative power of the
| crowd can take a film in an entirely new direction -- one that the creator
| hadn't even envisioned.
|
| [...]
|
| Creative Commons, which gives users the option of opening up the rights to
| their work, has done much to facilitate open source creative work, including
| filmmaking,
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63533.html
Australia set to give the go-ahead for Creative Commons licensing
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| Researchers at Queensland will shortly publish a study on the pricing of
| public sector information which is expected to set out the case for making
| all government data free. We will watch with interest. In the meantime, we
| think the UK government could usefully copy one set of Australian ideas: a
| policy review in 2002 which said that the government should not try to charge
| for data where to do so is not cost-effective, would be inconsistent with
| policy objectives or would unduly stifle competition and innovation. Bonza! Â Â Â
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/14/freeourdata.intellectualproperty
Lessig For Congress?
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| A 'Draft Lessig' group is forming on Facebook, featuring some of Lessig's old
| co-workers at Harvard and Jimmy Wales, among others. No word from Lessig
| himself yet, but he's been increasingly vocal about politics of late. If it
| happens, it would be a huge step forward for the representation of technology
| in Washington. Â Â
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http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/15/1432200
The Creative Commons CC0 project
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| CC0[http://creativecommons.org/projects/cczero] is a Creative Commons
| project designed to promote and protect the public domain by 1) enabling
| authors to easily waive their copyrights in particular works and to
| communicate that waiver to others, and 2) providing a means by which
| any person can assert that there are no copyrights in a particular work,
| in a way that allows others to judge the reliability of that assertion.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/265351/
Creative Commons Artist Spotlight: Convey
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| Every week, we will introduce our readers to emerging musical artists who
| choose to release their work under Creative Commons licenses.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/12/creative-commons-artist-spotlight-convey/
Fedora and Creative Commons Team Up To Deliver LiveContent Distribution
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| Red Hat and Creative Commons have said that Fedora 7 will serve as the
| platform for Creative Commons LiveContent CD, an initiative to showcase free,
| open source software and dynamic, Creative Commons-licensed multimedia
| content. Â
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/linux/11085/fedora-creative-commons-team-deliver-livecontent-distribution
[Creative Commons in Support of] GPLv3!
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| Note that Creative Commons has always recommended the GPL and other
| free software licenses for software. We look forward to transitioning
| software we create to GPLv3.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7553
Creative Commons Sponsored Software ccHost Release
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| These features most notably show up and are tested in Creative Commons'
| project, ccMixter (www.ccmixter.org), a popular on-line social network
| service that supports legal music sharing and remixing.
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http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/035244
Handling of Microsoft's copyleft violation
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| A member of the Microsoft packaged software team lifting one of my
| images is definitely a case where the infringing party should have
| known better, as the company routinely takes action to protect its
| own IP.
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http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/12/microsoft-copyright-photograph.html
Newsmaker: ÂJoi Ito a man of many hats
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| Q: I would like to ask if Joi thinks traditional copyright as
| articulated in much Western legislation is outdated?
|
| Ito: I think copyright is outdated. Basically, copyright in the
| physical world is a very limited thing. It doesn't affect you showing
| someone a book, how you read a book or how you sell a book you own
| because it involves only making copies which used to be expensive
| and cumbersome. On the Net, every time you view a Web page, you are
| making a copy, and every activity that involves content involves a
| lot of copying and mixing of stuff. This screws up copyright but
| also allows copyright to significantly screw us up by extending
| the ability of copyright to influence and control a significant
| portion of our online activities just because every step we take,
| we are "copying" something. Creative Commons is trying to work
| inside of the current copyright regime to provide choice and show
| people the value of sharing and do what we can.
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http://news.com.com/Joi+Ito+a+man+of+many+hats/2008-1026_3-6138091.html?tag=st.txt.caro
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