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There was a very interesting opinion piece by Victor Keegan in the Media Guardian today. It’s worth reading the whole thing of course, but I’ve excerpted it to give you an idea here.
It’s certainly no stretch to see just how this impacts recorded music as much as anything else…
Is copyright getting in [...]
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Jamie ‘Public Domain‘ Boyle sez, ‘When Ray Bradbury’s 1953 classic, Fahrenheit 451 was published, it was scheduled to enter the public domain this month — January 1, 2010. But then we changed the law. And Bradbury’s firemen look like pikers compared to the cultural conflagration that ensued. The works may not be physically [...]
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I went to Manchester yesterday to speak with David Sanjek – former head of archives at BMI in the US, now a professor at the University of Salford.
We ended up talking for three hours over coffee and covered everything from the history of music copyright in America to the effect of digitalisation [...]
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Lawrence Lessig discusses the Google Book Search decision. It’s not much of a stretch to imagine the parallels to recorded music. Except to say that Google isn’t even attempting to do this with recorded music…
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This afternoon, I interviewed Matt Mason, author of the book The Pirate’s Dilemma, about music, culture, law and the public domain.
We talked about all of the music that’s sitting in the vaults, decaying on master tapes – and Matt shared some good ideas about how this situation could be addressed, from a [...]
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