This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US box office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...
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This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...
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This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...
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In "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?" Mark Helprin writes "No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can...
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A young filmmaker talks about pirates who bootlegged his independent movie, and concludes "two wrongs don't make a right. But it's a start."......
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"The Den of Thieves" is not the next Madonna song or album. Believe it or not, it's the name of a new Warner Music Group programming division. Thieves? It's a bizarre name. I get...
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RIAA continues its campaign to co-opt universities in curtailing alleged copyright infringement by its students with mixed success. Harvard staff and alumni Wendy Seltzer and Charles Nesson from the...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) report "filesharing Programs and Technological Features to Induce Users to Share" attacks P2P software for causing consumers to inadvertently...
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Open wireless Internet like WiFi represents a huge threat to RIAA. It's virtually impossible to track and identify WiFi users. Wireless users typically share the same IP address. The Internet...
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This article is part of a series reviewing the AnywhereCD bundled CD+MP3 album store. 1. Anywhere(CD) But Here (Warner Music). 2. Anywhere(CD) But Singles. 3. Anywhere(CD) is Better Than Nowhere. 4....
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The FAIR USE Act was introduced in Congress by Reps . Rick Boucher (R-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA). The acronym stands for "Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act."...
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This article is part of a series reviewing the AnywhereCD bundled CD+MP3 album store. 1. Anywhere(CD) But Here (Warner Music). 2. Anywhere(CD) But Singles. 3. Anywhere(CD) is Better Than Nowhere. 4....
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This article is part of a series reviewing the AnywhereCD bundled CD+MP3 album store. 1. Anywhere(CD) But Here (Warner Music). 2. Anywhere(CD) But Singles. 3. Anywhere(CD) is Better Than Nowhere. 4....
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Bob Cringely writes "We Don't Need No Stinking Best Effort: Net neutrality may have been just a fantasy all along." Bob, welcome to the real world. One of his readers writes: "I...
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by Marc on April 09, 2007
I can't argue with any of Lefsetz's rant on EMI licensing Apple for DRM-less songs that are priced 30% higher. It IS progress, but progress that should have taken 2 years at most, not 7....
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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