Music Technology Policy

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Thanks to the #BrokenRecord campaign and especially Tom Gray of Gomez, the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee is conducing an inquiry into the economics of streaming. Watch on Parliament TV: Economics of music streaming or on @CommonsDCMS. brokenrecord artist rights Artist Rights are Human Rights Streaming Meltdown ed o'brien Inquiry into Economics of Streaming Tom Gray

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Music Technology Policy

MAY 16, 2019

Streaming is all the rage. But–it is cannibalizing higher margin goods, even digital goods. Because of the industry standard revenue share method of dividing up royalties, all artists essentially get a market share allocation of streaming service revenue based on the number of streams. Plus, with some exceptions, your royalty rate is dependent on factors you have no control over.

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Media Law Prof Blog

MAY 19, 2010

Jerry Brito, et al, have published Net Neutrality Regulation: The Economic Evidence. In the authors' shared opinion, the economic evidence does not support the regulations proposed in the Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Preserving the Here is the abstract.

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Pixelization

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Tags: Books Economics For Law Profs

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Music Technology Policy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

[Following is an interview with a reader who is an independent publisher about how they view the future for songwriters and independent publishers in the streaming upside down world to the right of the decimal place. The publisher requested to remain anonymous.]. Chris Castle/MTP : I want to ask you about challenges in the streaming reality for an independent publisher.

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Music Technology Policy

OCTOBER 10, 2013

If they are going to analyze the economics of file barter, they should take a hint from Google’s UK policy manager: Ad supported piracy is big business. Including the knighted ones who as a group probably added a zero to the UK GDP–and that is something that the London School of Economics should be able to actually measure accurately.

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The Legal Satyricon

JULY 18, 2011

DeVoy Just weeks before the bar exam, the New York Times craps all over the nonsensical economics of legal education. Based on the Times’ research, US News rankings play a surprisingly large role – and one much larger than the relevance such rankings actually have in practice. (“Oh, you went to Vanderbilt instead [.]. economy legal education

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Media Law Prof Blog

APRIL 9, 2013

Judge Brown attributes the end of his syndicated show to "trick economics Joe Brown, whose "Judge Joe Brown" court tv show is second only to "Judge Judy" in terms of popularity, comes to the end of its run next month.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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Media Law Prof Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Andreas Rahmatian, University of Glasgow, School of Law, has published A Fundamental Critique of the Law-and-Economics Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights at 17 Marquette Intellectual Property L. The economic analysis of law and 191 (2013). Here is the abstract.

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Music Technology Policy

DECEMBER 26, 2013

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

South Africa accuses wealthy nations of hoarding vaccines, as study warns of the economic toll for unequal access Will a tiger change it's stripes? Speaking at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called on wealthy nations to release any excess doses “so that other countries can have them.” “The But it’s in every nation’s own medium and long-term economic interest to support vaccine equity,” he said.

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Media Law Prof Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

Van Eijk Nico, University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law, Joost Poort, SEO Economic Research, and Paul Rutten, Leiden University, have published Legal, Economic and Cultural Aspects of File Sharing, in Communications and Strategies, No.

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Music Technology Policy

MARCH 21, 2016

We’re often told that EDM producers and DJs are doing well in the “ new boss ” economy because they embrace digital distribution especially streaming, sample rather than hire live musicians, use hard drive recording rather than studios, and so on. How many times have you heard how healthy “DJ culture” because “every night 500,000 people go out dancing”? Pick your number for the anecdote.).

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

MAY 10, 2020

Yet even leaving the human and health-care toll aside, the scale of the economic problem ahead is larger and worse than our leaders and politics appear capable of handling — or even recognizing. Fourth, economic forecasts haven’t even begun to reckon with how the new social distancing rules will affect employment. Economic recovery from the coronavirus will be much harder than we think - The Washington Post

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

This is driven purely by economics’: Atlanta mayor talks about reopening with Tamron Hall"ATLANTA — As businesses like hair salons and restaurants begin to reopen across Georgia, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke with talk show host Tamron Hall on Monday about Gov. Brian Kemp’s order to start the first phase of reopening parts of the state.

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Media Law Prof Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Christian Handke, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of History and Arts, is publishing Intellectual Property in Creative Industries: The Economic Perspective in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries (C. Waelde and A. Brown, eds., Cheltenham, E. Elgar, forthcoming).

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Media Law Prof Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Mariateresa Maggiolino, Eleonora Montani, and Giovanni Tuzet, all of Bocconi University, have published The Market for Gossip: Punish Paparazzi and You Will Produce Inefficiency. What do you call the action of digging up dirt that otherwise would remain buried, and

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Media Law Prof Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

Hannibal Travis, Florida International University College of Law, has published The Economics of Book Digitization and the Google Books Litigation. Here is the abstract. This piece explores the digitization and uploading to the Internet of full-text books, book previews in

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Media Law Prof Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Hannibal Travis, Florida International University College of Law, has published Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation, in volume 57 of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the

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Music Technology Policy

MARCH 28, 2020

The SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program provides small businesses with working capital loans of up to $2 million that can provide vital economic support to small businesses to help overcome the temporary loss of revenue they are experiencing. You’ll notice that there are a few boxes that can be checked, you probably want the one “Economic Injury (EIDL”).

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2018

Behind bloody Gaza clashes, economic misery and piles of debt - The Washington Post "GAZA CITY — Every Friday for the past month, thousands of Palestinians have surged to Gaza’s border fence with Israel in a show of anger and defiance, some throwing stones and molotov cocktails, others simply wanting to be there.

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THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2012

The government recommends a man who hacked the e-mail accounts of celebrities pay restitution. A white collar lawyer explains how the dollar figures were determined. read more. THR, Esq. Tech Movies Tech Christina Aguilera Scarlett Johansson

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Music Technology Policy

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Chris Castle : Come out for the CCC! Originally posted on The Trichordist : Saturday, October 18, 2014 @ 8:00 pm. A Benefit Concert for c3. Featuring John Zorn , Eric Slick (Dr Dog) , Steve Coleman , Marc Ribot , Henry Grimes , Marina Rosenfeld , Trevor Dunn , Brandon Seabrook , Satomi Matsuzaki ( Deerhoof ), A mir ElSaffar , and more! The event will also feature a short screening of highlights from Michael Count Eldridge ’s upcoming documentary film “Unsound”.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Republican Economic Plan Is an Insult "It’s bad faith in the name of bipartisanship. Alexander Drago/Reuters So 10 Republican senators are proposing an economic package that is supposed to be an alternative to President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The proposal is only a third of the size of Biden’s plan and would in important ways cut the heart out of economic relief. Opinion | The Republican Economic Plan Is an Insult - The New York Times

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The economic impact of Donald Trump ending DACA | MSNBC

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 10, 2011

As part of the Local Community Radio Act which, among other things, repealed restrictions against protecting full-power FM stations from third-adjacent channel interference from LPFM stations, Congress required that the FCC conduct a study of the economic impact that such stations will have on full-power FM stations. Even if the impact of LPFM on full-power station ratings can be assessed, is there any way to measure the economic effect of any such impact?

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2014

This decision also helps to clear up a big question that has been hanging over such programs, for over 3 years since the FCC reversed dozens of prior waivers granted by its staff to nonprofit groups claiming that the captioning would be economically burdensome on their operations (including the waiver that had been granted to this church). So what factors did the Commission review in denying this “economically burdensome” waiver request?

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 22, 2015

While exemptions from these requirements are allowed if a programmer can demonstrate that the captioning would present an economic hardship , these waivers are difficult to receive as a programmer must show that, looking at its overall operations, there are insufficient financial resources to afford the captioning for the program (see our article here ).

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

According to a letter from the Copyright Office that has recently been made public, the economic troubles of broadcasters, which have been used to argue against the imposition of a performance royalty for the use of sound recordings by radio stations , are cyclical and are largely over.

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Pixelization

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Stephan Kinsella over at the Mises Economics Blog posted a link to my new draft paper, Intellectual Property’s Great Fallacy. That paper argues that the essential bit of economic wisdom at the core of copyright – that external incentives. Copyright Economics For Law Profs The Great Fallacy of Intellectual PropertyThanks!)

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The Legal Satyricon

JANUARY 26, 2009

A twenty-two year old Nevada woman has placed her virginity up for grabs in an online auction, where the bidding has reportedly reached over $3.7 million. The transaction has caught the attention of some religious groups, who would like the federal government to intervene.

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Venture Capitalist, Sequoia Capital put together a simplified slide presentation on start-ups and the economic downturn. Less is more and this presentation simplifies a lot of the complexity of the current economic mess we’re all in. Tags: venture capitalists economy sequoia capital economic downturn depression avc fred wilson Venture Capital eric upin recession Start-ups View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Importantly, the Order offers a provisional interpretation of the term “economically burdensome” as that term is used in the recent Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (“CVAA”). The Commission essentially concluded that although the CVAA uses the term “economically burdensome,” Congress did not intend to fundamentally change the existing standard for assessing individual exemptions based on undue burden.

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Copyrights & Campaigns

JULY 17, 2009

The record label plaintiffs have moved to limit the testimony of Joel Tenenbaum's defense expert Johan Pouwelse , arguing that the Dutch computer scientist cannot "be considered an 'expert' on the wide variety of economic and business issues described in his reports." Argue the labels: He has no education, training, or expertise in economics, market analysis, or business models.

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Pixelization

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Part 5 of a series: The Great Fallacy of Intellectual Property In this series of posts, I'm arguing that the central economic theory of intellectual property law is wrong. Copyright Cyber Economics Film For Law Profs The Great Fallacy of Intellectual PropertyThat theory is that IP, or some other form of externally.

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Music Technology Policy

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

It should come as no surprise that we don't have much time for Chris Anderson around here. We do have a lot of time for Will Page, the economist who provided the analysis for the Radiohead "In Rainbows" project and a very bright lad with a lot of promise for a Scot.

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Venture Capitalist, Sequoia Capital put together a simplified slide presentation on start-ups and the economic downturn. Less is more and this presentation simplifies a lot of the complexity of the current economic mess we’re all in. Start-ups Venture Capital avc depression economic downturn economy eric upin fred wilson recession sequoia capital venture capitalists View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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DealFatigue

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Venture Capitalist, Sequoia Capital put together a simplified slide presentation on start-ups and the economic downturn. Less is more and this presentation simplifies a lot of the complexity of the current economic mess we’re all in. Start-ups Venture Capital avc depression economic downturn economy eric upin fred wilson recession sequoia capital venture capitalistsView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Copyrights & Campaigns

APRIL 20, 2009

The pro-copyright letter does not request specific action, instead stressing the economic importance of IP: Enforcement of copyrights and patents and protecting the freedom to create and be compensated for it are essential components of promoting the progress of sciences and arts, as articulated so clearly by our Founding Fathers in the U.S.

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Pixelization

JANUARY 23, 2011

Copyright Economics For Law ProfsThe Great Fallacy of Intellectual Property In line with a series of posts I did in December, I have posted to SSRN a draft of a short essay I've written, Intellectual Policy's Great Fallacy. Here is the abstract: Intellectual property.

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Communications And Entertainment Law Blog

MARCH 26, 2020

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