Ever heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Okay, if you’re an internet issues follower, then yes, you’ve heard of these international trade negotiations still underway. If you’re one of the other 180 or so million adult Americans, you probably haven’t. And that works out to be very convenient for the self-proclaimed protectors of Internet freedom, if you’re inclined to believe the ...
“People tend to want artists to do the same thing, and it is incumbent upon artists to do something that the audience doesn’t want — yet.” This quote comes from composer, artist, and producer T Bone Burnett in a recent Q&A with The Hollywood Reporter that has been circulating over the past week. The whole article is worth a read ...
On the heels of the YouTube Music Awards, David Lowery, on his site The Trichordist, calls on artists to hold YouTube accountable for some of the content it allows on its site. In particular, Lowery makes the point that it is young kids who tend to use YouTube for music more than almost any other service, and that for this ...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been rightly taken to task in this Vanity Fair article by Alyssa Bereznak for his recent declaration of outrage that the NSA has been spying on his company. The collective spit-take could be heard clearly around the blogosphere. Despite Schmidt’s own efforts to keep his private life private, the CEO is among the leading voices who ...
Author and cartoonist Tim Kreider neatly and wryly sums up everything you need to know about what’s wrong with the digital-age economy in this editorial that appeared in yesterday’s New York Times. Kreider covers many bases, including a nod to the oft-overlooked factor in the economic calculus of the male author — that money is merely the conduit between the ...
