To those who comment unceasingly that copyright and anti-piracy efforts are exclusively about big labels and big studios, meet the owners of ESL. This is an indie label that has a blanket 50/50 deal with all of its artists. Eric Hilton comes from the technology sector, so they’re anything but Web luddites. They are literally telling young, talented musicians they ...
Imagine your diet will henceforth be determined by the tastes of a majority of American ten-year-olds. This may sound as unlikely as it does unappetizing, but the prospect is not really all that different from the basis for at least one of the arguments of the copyleft crowd with regard to distributing creative content via the Web. One assumption behind DIY ...
Remember this stuff? What does it have to do with the arts in the digital age? This guest post on Copyright Alliance twisted some knickers over at TechDirt. ...
This is a piece I wrote as a guest post for The Copyright Alliance. It got the folks over at TechDirt into a lather, but I suspect that’s because it wasn’t read or read very carefully by most of them. Not only have Copyright and Free Speech coexisted peacefully for the entire history of the Republic, but I would ...
No doubt, the U.S. Pirate Party will be in a caffeinated kerfuffle over yesterday’s upholding by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston of the $675,000 fine being levied at Joel Tenenbaum for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs several years ago. And no doubt anyone under the age of about 35, who very likely has a lot more ...
