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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Building upon a stolen past 12
Techdirt ran an interesting post recently about The Myth of Original Creators. In it, they explored the Romantic Era notion of the artist as the sole creative participant in a work.
And when I say ‘Romantic Era’, think Beethoven. He was the poster child for art as unique ’self expression’ rather than art as contributing participant [...]
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Teaching music programming 0
Those previous posts in which I’ve quoted the Intellectual Property Office’s guidelines (rules?) on fair dealing with regard to study and research don’t quite cover something I need to do in order to teach a class on Music Programming.
By ‘music programming’, incidentally, I don’t mean in the sense of programming beats or using sequencers. I [...]
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Investigating the Legal Status of Sound Recordings 0
Hoping I can get to this:
Sound Property? Investigating the Legal Status of Sound Recordings
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Music & Copyright
University of Salford ~ May 28-29, 2009
This conference proposes to investigate the current U.S. and U.K. statutes that regulate the protection of sound recordings. It will inquire to what degree those laws secure the rights [...]
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