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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You’ve heard of Earth, Wind and Fire. This is one of their hits, from an album called Touch The World, released in 1987. Never been reissued as far as I can tell. Shame to see it rot, really – especially since it raises some good questions, comments on the contemporary politics of the day and [...]
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A few things have made me question my focus on music as the territory for this conversation recently. After all, all culture is under threat as a result of copyright conservatism in a changing media environment.
Chris Bestwick raised the point in a comment on my last post, I’ve talked about it with a few people [...]
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