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Legal Group: Your Mashup Is Probably Legal
(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.)
Earlier this week the Center for Social Media, a project at the School of Communication at American University in Washington DC, released guidelines on fair use practices for video.
These guidelines provide valuable insight as to what is and isn't allowed under the fair use statue in Copyright Law as well ...
Ooh Lala! (dot com)
(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.)
Michael Robertson, founder of mp3.com and persistent tech entrepreneur posted on his blog today about a new music service called Lala.com under the headline "$20 Million Dollar Experiment to See if You'll Rent a Song for 10 Cents".
In his post he talks about how the new service works. The site ...
I Take Back All That Bad Stuff I Said About SoundExchange (And So Should You)
(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.)
In the summer of 2007 news that the Copyright Royalty board was set to raise the amount Internet radio webcasters paid in performance royalties hit the Internet.
The Huffington Post, Ars Technica, Wired, and Daily Kos, among others carried dire warnings that the new performance royalty rate would be too high ...
Keepin It Real
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I came of age during the height of gangsta rap. The albums that defined my high school years were 2pac's "Me Against the World" and "All Eyez On Me", Snoop's "Doggystyle", Bone Thugs n Harmony's "E. 1999 Eternal", Biggie's "Ready to Die", Cypress Hill's "Black Sunday" and Wu-Tang's "Enter ...
Apple wins!
According to a new NPD MusicWatch Survey, and first discussed on ArsTechnica, Apple has for the first time beaten Wal-Mart to become the nation's largest music retailer by capturing 19 percent of the music retail market in January 2008. Wal-mart came in second with 15 percent market share.
The day when digital downloads would exceed ...
Ghosts in the Machine
(This article originally appeared on ArtistsHouseMusic.org.)
You'll have to excuse me if this editorial seems a little more stream of consciousness than normal. I've been listening to Ghosts I from the new Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV that I downloaded from the official 'leaked' torrent on The Pirate Bay.
"This collection of music is the ...
Guitar Hero Saves the Music Business
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I love the Guitar Hero franchise. Even the 80's version that was only for the ps2 and only had 35 songs but still cost 50 bucks. If you're keeping score, that makes 4 titles for the franchise, to this point. The titles span all major consoles and ...
Today’s Top 5 Stories and Links
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Five issues, insights, and observations shaping the future of music and the music business from the editors of Artists House Music.
1. An Interview with Swedish Pirate Pary leader Rick Falkvinge
The P2P Consortium has published an interview with Rick Falkvinge, leader of the Swedish Pirate Party (a political party similar to ...
5 Things the Music Business Has Going for it in 2008
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Now that the holidays are over, the new iPod's unwrapped and all the family’s mp3 collections have been combined and shared now's not the time to focus on RIAA lawsuits, slumping record sales, or whether downloading a torrent of "In Rainbows" from Radiohead from The Pirate Bay for free rather ...
I’m Glad I Don’t Run a Major Label
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It's a bad time to a major record label. First, eMarketer is out with a report predicting that worldwide spending on music will decrease from $31.8 billion in 2006 to $26.2 billion in 2011, a decrease of nearly 20 percent.
In comments made at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress on November ...