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28 Aug, 2008 10:54 pm
... in urging the Copyright Office to clarify the process for licensing digital music services, but to steer clear of larger digital copyright
controversies. The comments were filed in a rulemaking involving the Section 115 compulsory license for ... Office's proposal goes a bit too far by trying to resolve a number of
other, unnecessary, copyright controversies that should be resolved by the courts or Congress. In particular, the proposed regulations took the position that temporary RAM buffer
copies ...
3 Apr, 2008 2:44 pm
... Portfolio: Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to
bundle a monthly fee into ... Recording Industry Association of America... Despite the obvious problem of letting users upload music of
sometimes dubious legal origins to its servers, Muxtape won't automatically be receiving ... legal and it has to result in money flowing to the artists. If you put the music on your blog, you should have two choices. Allow the ads to be served ...
3 Apr, 2008 2:44 pm
... Portfolio: Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to
bundle a monthly fee into ... Recording Industry Association of America... Despite the obvious problem of letting users upload music of
sometimes dubious legal origins to its servers, Muxtape won't automatically be receiving ... legal and it has to result in money flowing to the artists. If you put the music on your blog, you should have two choices. Allow the ads to be served ...
24 Sep 8:35 am
... here and on the Copyright 2.0 Show. 2: Felix Da Housecat and DJ Hell Embroiled in Controversy Over Clearance of Diddy Featured "The DJ"
Longtime Sean "Diddy" Combs collaborator Felix Da Housecat is accusing DJ ... Ends Career Finally today, musician Lily Allen has closed her controversial copyright blog, an
announcement that came shortly after she announced the end of her musical career. The closure came after it was discovered Allen was hosting unauthorized mixtapes on her site.
According to Allen, ...
31 Mar, 2008 12:31 am
... could create up to $20 billion in annual revenue, which is approximately double the current annual revenue of the American music industry.
Warner is not the only major label exploring this possibility. Jim Griffin is also consulting with Universal ... . So perhaps Griffin's proposal is simply the next evolution of the
subscription model for digital music. The forward-thinking plan is not without controversy however.
Critics argue that this is yet another attempt by labels and publishers to prop up ...
30 Jul 8:59 am
... the Harvard Crimson by Nesson and Wendy M. Seltzer titled Protect Harvard from the RIAA, which isolates the controversial core of the problem involved in the Tenenbaum case
from the standpoint of educational institutions: "Students and faculty use the Internet to ... to shape student attitudes toward copyright.... Q: Is it still illegal to download
music on P2P sites like LimeWire, BitTorrent and Ares? Absolutely...." For more political controversy
see e-Commerce and TechLaw. CyberOne: Law in the ...
28 Apr, 2006 4:38 am
... rollback the digital consumer's playback rights to the more limited ones that were available (because of technology limitations) with the analog cassette decks of the 1970s. Given
the controversy already surrounding this bill, we think it is fair to predict that whichever way the Senate decides on this bill, it is likely
to be music to someone's ears. We'll keep you posted. Today's Blogger: Eric W. Bass
29 Mar, 2008 7:03 am
... Group, 06-4652 (2d Cir. March 27, 2008) arose out of claims for copyright infringement involving music for the 1980's TV potboiler, Santa
Barbara. In 2004, a class action was brought in California against the parent companies ... in a narrow group of cases, as where the DJ was anticipatory in nature or was filed in order
to thwart the natural selecton of forum for the controversy. In this case, the court ruled that the insurers' DJ was not anticipatory as not
having been filed in response to any ...
3 Dec, 2007 12:22 am
... the Establishment Clause is the extent to which school choir concerts may contain sacred music. An interesting op-ed in yesterday's
Livingston (MI) Daily Press & ... German choir its policy that concerts should contain no more than 30% sacred music. (See prior posting.)
So this year the Board raised the allowable amount of religious ... can't the Howell school board come up with a policy that says that, and goes no further so that it avoids creating
needless controversies where there really is no ...
28 Jan, 2008 12:11 am
... include major label music. "You can't change the attitudes and habits of what is now probably amounting to two generations who believe that
music ought to be free on the internet," said Qtrax CEO Allan Klepfisz. "Those people are not going to be discouraged by ... of oversight (and
DRM) to the P2P experience. This is easily Qtrax's most compelling but also its most controversial feature, in my opinion. To be successful, Qtrax needs to be better than
traditional P2P. By hopping on Gnutella, it has a ...
23 Feb 10:16 am
... delays copyright laws After weeks of protest the government has delayed introducing controversial copyright laws. It has told the industry to find a way to make the
legislation work or it ... law legal download upload peer to peer p2p file sharing filesharing music movies indie independent label freeculture
creative commons pop/rock artists riaa independent mp3 cd favorite songs intellectual property portable music playerTo contribute to Marie
Lindor's legal defense, see below. The above donation ...
1 Apr 5:07 am
... making that up - Google it), Byrd noted that there are some classes of "the people's music" which are in danger of disappearing. Adding a
penny tax to tunes downloaded onto an already ... creating a serious shortage in the virtual "take a penny, leave a penny" jar. Despite the controversy surrounding the bill, a vote is expected to take place later today, on April 1st ... Posts: IRS Considers Tax Exempt Status for Bloggers April
Fool's Day Humor Tax Law: The Musical My New MacBook - and Its Tax Connection ...
26 Mar, 2008 6:29 pm
... Researched & edited by Howie Cockrill Professional and armchair music industry pundits alike have a new and seemingly bottomless
discussion thread. The topic is a controversial new business model being explored by record companies to save their ... true. Myriad explanations have been proferred for this
downturn in CD sales (piracy, digital rights management, a dearth of quality music, a glut of one-hit wonders, the democratization of digital
distribution, etc.), but at the end of the day - the ...
20 Jun, 2007 10:12 pm
... outpaced an antiquated Copyright Act or by pointing to the intractable pricing dilemma created by rampant Internet music piracy. Without
questioning the accuracy of these observations, this Article suggests that they miss the heart of ... array of middlemen - that has thwarted the commercialization of online
music. This Article explores the inefficiencies created by the fractured administration of music
copyrights and offers a controversial remedy: a regulatory merger of the licensing functions of ...
26 Feb 7:43 am
... : Songbeat Silenced For Now, Won't Go Down Without A Fight Controversial German music start up Songbeat has temporarily shut its
doors. It was sued successfully by ... any song from various sources on the Internet, thus letting users listen to any music whenever they
desired. 2: Nintendo asks for help against biggest piracy ... the service, which searches for MP3s on various sites and allows users to listen to music in a built-in media player, but what does make this suit interesting is that both one of ...
7 Jul 11:24 am
... that users of music pay the copyright owner of the sound recording for the public performance of that music via certain digital transmissions. A controversy arose in 2007, when the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued
royalty rates for Internet radio ... independent and major label record companies. The agreement applies exclusively to "pureplay" webcasters -- those that simply play music, frequently supported by advertisements. Those sites usually have minimal revenues. Websites that stream music
...
23 Oct 10:41 am
... , including R.E.M. and Pearl Jam, want to know if their music was used by the U.S. military as part of controversial interrogation
methods at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba." I don't know whether ... the military was infringing the copyrights, through an unlicensed public performance (and I stress
again that the likely playing of the music was probably in a private setting), the remedies for federal government infringements of copyrights
are limited to actual damages - here, probably ...
8 Nov, 2007 9:43 am
... of the year. Some commenters have suggested that the 7.5% royalty rate should be viewed as a precedent for the controversial Internet Radio royalties. As SoundExchange has
argued for "parity" and "fairness" in royalties in connection with its ... the adoption of that standard as part of the Internet Radio Equality Act. The role that the comments that the
CRB is seeking on the Music Choice settlement is limited, as only parties to the proceeding can "object" to a settlement under the terms of the
...
12 Jan 12:00 am
... reveals the heart of the issue being one of more controversy than merely identifying some relatively easily found prior art. The patent
actually relates to the creation of music files, which combine encoded music instructions and
instrument sounds, ... has been that it is difficult to pass the obviousness test for combination patents. In the current case, a desire to play music over the Internet in a bandwidth efficient way and to ensure that it sounded the same at the other end, may well have led ...
5 Dec, 2006 6:46 am
... main street. The New London (CT) Day reported on the controversy last week. Ten years ago, the town spent some unused grant monies for the
equipment that is used to play music each hour, and to broadcast church bells on ... Onward Christian Soldiers. And in the winter, religious
Christmas songs are included in the repetoire. Some residents are concerned that the volume of the music is too loud. But American Atheists is
concerned with the church-state issues in the town's operation of the equipment. ...
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