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Interview with Doug Morris, chairman and chief executive of Universal Music Group, the biggest record company in the world, in the Financial Times. That boy is an optimist: Mr Morris, however, rejects the widely propagated belief that the internet is going to eat into the music industry’s growth and profits. …

It's not who you think.

News for the recording industry has been bad, it may be even worse for the retailers: Record store operators are pleased to report that rubber duck toys, talking Ozzy Osbourne action figures and CD storage cases are flying off the shelves. But a boom market in knickknacks won’t keep hundreds …

We told you about the copyright-flouting “Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age” exhibit and website back in October because we flipping rule. The NY Times is just getting around to it: It sounds like a plan for drawing hordes of screaming lawyers to your door: create compilation …

A look at Season Two's premiere of The Shield

We recently linked to an essay claiming hip-hop dead as an art form – writer Pierre Bennu didn’t mince any words: I know you’ve been thinking it. And if you haven’t, you probably haven’t been paying attention. The art we once called hip hop has been dead for some time …

Actually, it's up to $20 free for being a living American, and you have to apply for it, but we got your attention didn't we?

Joining the chorus, Scientific American denounces the DMCA and endorses the Electronic Freedom Foundation’s white paper, “Unintended Consequences”. The sides will be considerably more even when the fight is rejoined in the new Congress: The entertainment industry should not feel free just yet to harass users and makers of musical …

Eddie Murray, the second greatest switch-hitter of all time (behind the Mick), who likely solidified his first-year induction with his stellar late-career year with the Indians in ’95, and Gary Carter, “The Kid,” the second-best catcher of the last 40 years (behind Bench), were elected into the Hall of Fame …

All you sci-fi creators get to cogitating, they just found a planet that rains iron: Using a new technique that will be used to search for Earthlike planets, astronomers have found a distant extrasolar planet, a bizarre place of torrid heat, with clouds and raindrops made of iron. A team …