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Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown: Why Content’s Kingdom is Slipping Away
If you work in tech, check out my new book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. Tags: technology Hollywood Silicon Valley content Content and technology are locked in a struggle whose outcome may determine the future of the entertainment industry. The problem is this: Content is becoming a commodity.
Digital Media Law
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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Google Fouls Up Again: Google Book Search is a Disaster for Scholars AND Copyright Owners
Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars. We've become accustomed to librarians and academics uncritically fawning over the disaster that is Google Books (especially those privileged librarians among the sovereign ly immune), yet give this one by Professor Geoffrey Nunberg a read: "Start with publication dates. book on Peter F.
Music Technology Policy
- Sunday, September 27, 2009
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Excellent Review of "most prolific scholar of copyright in history"
" Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars: A Worthless Book " is an excellent book review by Tom Sydnor of the book by the strikingly modest Google VIP William Patry. The reviewer says "I began [the book] hoping for a slanted-yet-thoughtful analysis of how to reconcile the potential of both copyrights and the Internet.
Music Technology Policy
- Sunday, October 4, 2009
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Soft Power and the Death of Free Culture
The thought leaders of the anti-copyright crowd (such as Lessig, Fisher and Geist) lead the grand apology for piracy from the amen corner (see In Defense of Piracy , about Lessig’s new book). Secretary of State Select Hillary Clinton mentioned the importance of “smart power” many times during her confirmation hearings. But it is now.
Music Technology Policy
- Monday, January 19, 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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Frequently Asked Questions: Career Advice
Most entertainment lawyers are located in New York or Los Angeles, although those who specialize in music might reside in Nashville, and those who are in multimedia might reside in Seattle or Silicon Valley. Question: Have read many of your books in my graduate film program, which is based on legal and business aspects of the industry.
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