[b]George wrote a great article this week! As for my earlier use of the term "recording industry" in regards to licensing being its' salvation, I should have been more clear to define (in that instance) the "big label" dominated recording industry.[/b] --Shmoo

Lessig: "I had dinner once with Richard Clark at the table and I said 'is there an equivalent to the Patriot Act -- an iPatriot Act -- just sitting waiting for some substantial event just waiting for them to come have the excuse for radically changing the way the Internet works?' And he said, 'Of course there is' -- and I swear ...

Neil Peart's Progressive Percussion Proves Itself Again; Nominated Drummer Of The Year For A Second Time in DRUM! Magazines Drummies 2008; Selected Best Live Performer As Well...

The deal between record companies and ISPs will drive music-swapping underground and erode their profits still further.

Well, at least SOMETHING trumps the DMCA.

EFF AND FAIR USE PREVAIL OVER ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO USE COPYRIGHT TO SILENCE CRITICS, as a federal court dismissed a copyright claim by radio personality Michael Savage last Friday. Savage sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for criticizing him with short audio clips of his radio program -- a by-the-book exercis...

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Websherrif and Van Morrison cut Electric Gypsy some slack on cover tunes on youtube!

Last week, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced S. 3325, the "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008," a bill that proposes a number of alarming changes to copyright law. The bill is the Senate's gift to big content owners, creating new and powerful tools -- many of which will be paid for by your...

With the Tea Club progressive rock and indie music take another step towards respectability. H

Guy Hands, the British dealmaker who made his name securitizing pubs and passenger trains, has assembled investors on a sunny June afternoon in London for the annual review of the companies held by his buyout firm, Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd.

'The Mandala is the Best and Most High-Definition Way to Control All the Pro Audio Software Out There,' Says Mandala Inventor Vince De Franco

Candian band staples CC-licensed CDs to phone-poles with anti-Canadian-DMCA messages

Are zapping aliens and racing cars in the living room a good enough reason to enslave children to mine for a precious metal?

The recording industry has finally met its match, and it's one bad mother -- or, more accurately, several good ones.

Will the music industry ever get organized?

The European Union has proposed a plan to retroactively extend the copyright terms on musical recordings for another 45 years. Apparently, it's unfair for performers who recorded tracks in their twenties not to keep receiving money for them in their seventies; under the current 50-year copyright term, "this means that income sto...

Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks are at risk from new malware that inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF media files