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An Inconvenient Truth: Rick Carnes talks about the effect of piracy on American songwriters
Anytime you go on a website that is offering free music they have no license to use and selling your visits to that site to advertisers you are looking at one of the ‘greatest commercial opponent of songwriters’. Castle: If you had to pick the most important issue of 2009 for songwriters, could you and if you could, what would it be?
Music Technology Policy
- Thursday, January 29, 2009
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More Poobahisms from the Pukka Sahib
Fred just doesn’t seem to want to admit the obvious--that ASCAP only acts as an agent for its songwriters—if ASCAP loses a licensing stream, it’s the thousands of ASCAP songwriters who lose. heard one of Fred's colleagues at EFF try to roil up a crowd once by saying "Is Silicon Valley going to let Hollywood tell it what to do?"
Music Technology Policy
- Thursday, June 25, 2009
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Waiting For The Dough
thought that Toronto would present a sea change in the degrading economics of the business; that the credit markets would thaw; and the cash equity of retired Silicon Valley and Wall Street insiders, the Chinese, the Indians and institutional investors would make the trek up to Canada in droves.
DealFatigue
- Monday, September 28, 2009
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US News & World Report: "Google May Not Be Evil, But It Sure As Hell Isn't Interested in Free Speech"
This is an inconvenient fact that the dreamy 'information on the Web shall be forever free' folks, and the evil Silicon Valley suits who exploit them, like to forget.The artists who make the videos that lure the viewers deserve a chunk of that money." Farrell joins a short list of articles. Farrell notes that ".the Almost right.
Music Technology Policy
- Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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Veoh: Is continuous monitoring really the law?
27, 2008) when a federal magistrate in Silicon Valley ruled that the technology company was entitled to protection under the “safe harbor” sections of the Copyright Act from claims of copyright infringement brought by creators. would think--and I think it's worth thinking about some more--that would make a huge difference.
Music Technology Policy
- Monday, September 14, 2009
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Mercury News Op-ed: Hollywood innovates — and litigates when it must
But that facile description ignores what has actually been happening in computer labs and negotiating sessions from Silicon Valley to Santa Monica: Entertainment and technology companies are realizing that the long-term solution to their rivalry lies in licensing, not litigation. The evidence abounds. What's wrong with that?
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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