Because if Google gets it past the UK Parliament–leave aside that there are significant treaty issues that Google will tie up in litigation for years– Google will start orphaning works through the UK on a grand scale just as they have done with Google Books while that case has been pending.  And it won’t just be Google. MORE >>

In early 2005, Berklee VP David Kusek and "futurist" Gerd Leonhard based their book The Future of Music on the concept of " Music Like Water ," i.e. the transformation of the music industry into one in which music is ubiquitous and subscription-based, paid for and delivered like any other utility service. MORE >>

The FBI accused the seven executives, including CEO Kim Dotcom (yes, seriously, that is his name) of amassing $175m since the site launched in 2005. Welcome to the Diaspora. It is not for nothing that many of the big sites dedicated to thievery are located in many of the same countries targeted by the “Internet Freedom” crowd.  MORE >>

Here are two things that happened in August 2005: Facebook.com was launched. We were fortunate back in 2005 to team up with the Legal Talk Network (before it was called the Legal Talk Network)  and become its first podcast, spawning a whole stable of great legal podcasts produced and hosted by LTN. and longtime blogger, is my cohost. MORE >>

Here are two things that happened in August 2005: Facebook.com was launched. We were fortunate back in 2005 to team up with the Legal Talk Network (before it was called the Legal Talk Network)  and become its first podcast, spawning a whole stable of great legal podcasts produced and hosted by LTN. and longtime blogger, is my cohost. MORE >>