Lawrence Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law by: Mike King
You might be familiar with Lawrence Lessig as a long-time advocate for copyright reform and information freedom, and as the founder and architect of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization dedicated to grassroots copyright reform through the means of providing free tools to all content creators to mark their creative work with the freedoms they want their work to carry.
Lessig gave a speech in March for www.Ted.com (the site is ...
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The Recording Industry versus The People by: Ben Snyder The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the US recording industry. While not every label is a member, there's a huge list including all of the major labels. Their primary purpose over the past decade has been to lobby Congress for tougher copyright laws and penalties and to vigorously defend their intellectual property by suing file sharers. So far they have sued more than 18,000 people. The process works something like this:
The RIA...
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The Wild Week in Music by: Ben Snyder It has been a very interesting week in the music world. First up, Radiohead signed a deal with British indie label XL Recordings for the physical distribution of their CD "In Rainbows". This follows their much talked about digital release of the CD where the band allowed its fans to choose how much they wanted to pay for the album.
Prince - long time philosophical opponent of major record labels took a page from the RIAA's play...
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Radiohead Rocking The Online Marketing Campaign (And You Could Too!) by: Mike King
Following up on the DJ set that Thom Yorke did on Thursday evening, radiohead.tv hosted a second straight night of live performances, videos and cover songs in what is appearing to be some sort of Webcast series. Excellent stuff – a homemade video for the new 15 Steps song using images from the Brad Pitt film Se7en (with Thom’s head playing the role of Gweneth Paltrow), a great Smiths cover, and a red hot live version of Bodysnatchers, the second song from the “In Rainbows” record. ...
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BostonPops.TV by: George Howard
Very cool to see some innovation come to the Classical world. BostonPops.TV is a recently launched site that allows you to go behind the scenes at the Pops, and hear some of their wonderful performances; the first episode is full of great music from Emmy and Oscar winning plays and films, such as Chicago and Lawrence of Arabia. Conductor Keith Lockhart provides commentary on the performances, and really pu...
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NBC President Jeff Zucker's Dilemma by: Ben Snyder NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker has a problem. The distribution method for media content is changing. It's a topic that the music business has grappled with for nearly 10 years and one that NBC Universal and News Corp's joint venture hulu.com aims to tackle head on.
Though it is an example from the TV business and not the music business, let's look at how NBC Universal wants to tackle the prob...
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Critical Metrics by: George Howard
Critical Metrics is a very interesting (if unfortunately named) site focused on dealing with a problem I've been wrestling with forever; basically that the algorithms that iLike and last.fm and amazon, et al. use sort of suck. BusinessWeek's story on CM puts it this way:
Current CM competition, like iLike and Last.fm, ...
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iMix for Promotion by: Debbie Cavalier
How can you put your music in front of people who are searching for better-known artists of your genre? Create an iMix with their music and yours combined!
What is an iMix? Think of it as a playlist that you share with the entire iTunes community. It's designed to help the listener, but it is also a wonderful promotional vehicle for artists.
I am a children's music artist under the name of Debbie and Friends and have a ...
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The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! by: Ben Snyder
Two weeks after Trent Reznor announced distribution details for the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero remix CD Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D comes word of a collaboration project between Trent Reznor and Saul Williams titled The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. There are at least two reasons to get excited about the release. First, this project finds Trent Reznor the most involved in a non-NIN recording since Ma...
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Trent Reznor's Future Plans On Album Distribution by: Ben Snyder
I was in high school when Nine Inch Nails released The Downward Spiral. Many of my friends were obsessed with March of the Pigs, Closer, and Hurt. It wasn't until college that I developed my own taste for Nine Inch ...
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