WSJ: “To Beat Antitrust Rap, Papers Take Cues From Songwriters”:
Ailing news organizations seeking to make money from both online readers and the Web sites that republish their stories are looking at the way music publishers collect a fraction of a cent for every song played in public, from the corner bowling alley to
NY Times: “Payoff Over a Web Singing Sensation Is Elusive“:
FremantleMedia Enterprises, a production company that owns the international digital rights to the talent show, hastily uploaded video clips to YouTube in the wake of Ms. Boyle’s debut, but the clips do not appear to be generating any advertising revenue for the company.
WaPo: © 2009? Wishful Thinking, Perhaps, as Backlog Mounts:
The problem has tripled the processing time for a copyright from six to 18 months, and delays are expected to get worse in coming months. The library’s inspector general has warned that the backlog threatens the integrity of the U.S. copyright system.
The irony is
Here is a post from December 30, 2006 entitled Emily the Rip-Off.:
Emily the Strange is fictional character whose introverted and disdainful personality has made her something of a countercultural icon (and a great way to sell marketable products to the trendy). Her franchise has churned out a lot of merchandise (clothes, toys, books,
NY Times: “Print Books Are Targets of Pirates on the Web“:
For a while now, determined readers have been able to sniff out errant digital copies of titles as varied as the “Harry Potter” series and best sellers by Stephen King and John Grisham. But some publishers say the problem has ballooned in
Wired: “Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept.“:
Monday’s naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department’s deputy assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked
Facebook Group organizes “Protest against the removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books”:
The Authors Guild is pressuring Amazon to modify the Kindle 2 so that the synthetic speech function can only be used with the express authorization of the owner of the copyright of a work. A coalition of organizations that represent or
The Register: “Pirate Bay Linking Could Implicate Facebook, Says Lawyer“:
The Pirate Bay has unveiled a feature that makes it easy for web users to post links to pirated material on their Facebook page. The activity risks passing liability for copyright infringement onto Facebook, a technology lawyer warned.
TechCrunch: “Harry Potter Author JK Rowling Attacks Scribd For Pirated Content”
Scribd says that the is no battle going on between Rowling and the site, and that the Times piece is “inaccurate and misleading”, going on to say that Scribd is not being threatened with legal action.
TechCrunch: “The Sorry State of Music Startups”
On demand streaming rates range from .4 cents to 1 cent per stream – this is what the startups pay to the labels every time they play a song for a user.
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MySpace Music, the biggest player in this space, may be spending $2 million