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No longer ducks of a feather
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| The Donald and the Duck are going their
| separate ways.
|
| In an amicable split, the folks at The Walt
| Disney Co. have agreed that the University
| of Oregonâs feathered mascot, which appears
| at sporting events, is not Donald Duck and
| that the mascot is no longer subject to
| Disneyâs trademark. That leaves the Duck
| Who Is Not Donald free to go on its
| cheerleading way, subject only to UO rules.
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http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24523367-41/duck-disney-mascot-university-agreement.csp
Because Only The Record Labels Are Supposed To Get Away With Not Paying Their Musicians...
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| You would think that the record labels
| would be smart enough to avoid making an
| argument that could so easily be turned
| against them. How about before you go blame
| the radio stations for not paying the
| labels to promote your acts, you start out
| by paying money to some of your top selling
| acts who claim they've never seen a dime in
| royalties. Given the labels' propensity to
| blatantly lie to artists about how much
| they're owed, you'd think the last thing
| they'd want to do is call attention to who
| is "refusing to pay musicians for their
| work."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100310/1352318509.shtml
Pig Invades Capital
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| The music industry is taking their fight
| for performance fees to their adversaries'
| doors Wednesday. The music industry has
| begun portraying broadcasters' opposition
| to legislation that would require AM and FM
| radio stations to pay a fee to performers
| for playing their music on the air as
| "piggish."
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http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/pig-invades-capital.php
Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments
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| It's hard not to like Pink Floyd. The
| band's music always felt so important, even
| if the songs were called things like "See
| Emily Play" and the albums resonated with
| names like "Ummagumma."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10466342-71.html
Pink Floyd sue EMI over download royalties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/10/pink-floyd-sue-emi
When RealNetworks Settled on DVD Copying, We All Lost
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| RealNetworks just screwed us all by
| settling lawsuits in which it might have
| lost--but which might also have given some
| new life to fair use for digital media.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/09/when-realnetworks-se.html
Shirky at NFAIS: How Abundance Breaks Everything
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| Clay Shirky was the opening keynote at the
| NFAIS Annual Conference this weekend.
| According to Shirky, the fact that our
| customers are connected matters, but the
| fact that theyâre networked matters even
| more.
|
| As an illustration of his point he told us
| a story about HSBC, a UK bank that
| instituted a no-penalty account targeted at
| UK college students and recent graduates.
| After attracting customers to these
| accounts, the bank decided to institute a
| Â140 fee for overdrafts. As we all would
| have imagined, in the age of Facebook and
| social networking, account holders didnât
| take this lightly. In fact, they organized
| online and were in the process of
| organizing an in-person demonstration when
| HSBC gave in.
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http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/03/02/shirky-at-nfais-how-abundance-breaks-everything/
No More Social Media For American Idol Contestants
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| At about 6PM ET on March 3rd, according to
| the Wall Street Journal, all Twitter,
| Facebook and MySpace followers of
| individual American Idol contestants were
| sent the same message:
|
| âThanks so much for following me/joining my
| Fan Page! All my updates from now on will
| be on our Official American Idol 9
| Contestant Page, please become a fan there
| to read all my updates throughout the
| season!â
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http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/03/no-mores-social-media-for-american-idol-contestants.html
Sorry, There's No Silver Bullet Business Model For The Music Industry
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| The evolution of recording formats shows
| that what has really driven the industry
| has been a hunger for increased
| accessibility and portability, not
| necessarily the introduction of new
| features. So, while Mulligan's music
| application idea may drive some interest in
| recoded music, by empowering the audience
| to do more with it, it is very unlikely to
| drive the type of purchasing behavior that,
| in the past, came with each new recording
| format -- and it certainly won't "save
| recorded music." The problem is that the
| user is no longer locked into the recording
| industry's physical product for the
| distribution of music. There is no "one
| thing" they can sell that the audience will
| have no alternative but to buy. To be
| successful, the recording industry is going
| to have to experiment and figure out how
| make revenue from many different sources,
| which requires creativity that the labels
| have so far been unable or unwilling to
| muster. While the industry is out there
| looking for the "silver bullet" of a
| business model, the reality is that the
| answer is more like a whole clip full of
| silver bullets, coupled with some garlic,
| and finished off with a wooden stake or
| two.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100302/1744448375.shtml
And Here Come The Lawsuits From People Who Claim James Cameron Ripped Them Off With Avatar
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100310/0245268495.shtml
Vancouver man files first 'Avatar' rip-off lawsuit
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| James Cameron has been sued for copyright
| infringement for allegedly stealing source
| material to create the international
| blockbuster "Avatar."
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http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/03/the-first-avatar-ripoff-lawsuit.html
Brazil Moves Forward With Plan To Ignore US Patents And Copyrights After US Refuses To Abide By WTO Ruling
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| Two years ago, we noted that Brazil had
| asked the WTO for permission to ignore
| certain US patents and copyrights as a
| retaliation against the US's refusal to
| abide by a WTO ruling. This is, of course,
| typical of the US. When the WTO sides with
| the US on certain issues, you see the US
| and industry lobbyists go nuts about how
| those countries need to capitulate due to
| "international obligations." But when the
| WTO rules against the US, the USTR has a
| long history of ignoring the ruling or even
| pretending (falsely) that it "won."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100310/0324578497.shtml
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