Tag Archives: Internet

The innovative Creative Commons is taking their flexible copyright to the world: A customisable form of copyright license will soon be available internationally through the Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation based in the US. The organisation already offers US artists a way build their own copyright agreement. Each custom-made license …

Being that I’m all cool and whatnot, I have been asked to help judge the Song Remix category of the Webgeek Olympics: What: You remix a song. When: The song in question will be posted on this page at 8:00 AM GMT, Saturday May 10 2003. How: Ping the “EventGo” …

Another incisive commentary from Dave Pell, this one on the grim state of Democratic thinking, and he’s a Democrat: The tsunami from the right has been so complete in recent years that it almost seems as if they are operating in a vacuum. Politically, the Republicans have control of the …

Ongoing Verizon-RIAA dispute – U.S. District Court Judge John Bates said Verizon must reveal the names of the two alleged copyright infringers within two weeks: Bates originally ordered Verizon to reveal the customers’ names in January, but Verizon had argued that their identities should be protected as it pursues an …

The Dixie Chicks seem to be weathering the negative publicity from their anti-Bush/war statements rather well. Maybe we’ve entered a new era of show biz negative advertising campaigns, as I mentioned earlier today in relationship to Madonna. They’ve done wonders for us here, too, that’s for sure (see below). The …

It’s been a year since Wilco’s now classic Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out on Nonesuch. They are celebrating: thanks for your support, we’re making the previously announced “Australian ep” available here free if you have a copy of YHF. Click on the image above to launch the EP player and …

So here’s Madonna, messing with file sharers by flooding the sharing services like Kazaa with spoof files of songs from her new American Life CD that are blank other than a terse message from Herself: “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Then, playing right into her evil little …

I am no tech-head – I know what I know reasonably well because I use it all the time, but anything outside my immediate range of computer behaviors is pretty much terra incognita. But I am gradually adding to my knowledge – this post on a crackdown on file sharers …

Having killed the horse, record labels are now suing those who fed it: Two major record labels filed suit Monday against venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners for its investment in Napster, alleging that it contributed to rampant music theft through the former file-swapping network. Universal Music Group and …

It’s hardly a pogrom, but apparently RIAA letters, threats, legal action and a “complaint” has spurred Penn State to take action against file sharers: Penn State deprived 220 students of high-speed Internet connections in their dorms after it found they were sharing copyrighted material, the university said yesterday. “Basically, we …