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May 13, 2013
Pirate Party Rep: Artists Don’t Have “the Right to Get Money”
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I suppose it should come as no surprise that Amelia Andersdotter, a member of Sweden's Pirate Party and the youngest member of the European Parliament, is hostile to the very idea of a music industry, but comments a
May 1, 2013
DMCA Force Now a Part of NARM
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DMCA Force is pleased to announce that we have joined the ranks of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), a trade association established back in 1958 to advance the business of music. So, what
April 24, 2013
Court: Grooveshark Not Protected by DMCA Safe Harbor on Pre-1972 Recordings
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In a decision handed down yesterday, a five-judge panel from the New York Supreme Court held that the 'safe harbor' provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act do not shield Grooveshark from liability with res
April 4, 2013
Judge: ‘Either the Law or ReDigi Must Change’
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Back in October, I wrote briefly about Capitol Records' (a division of EMI Music) lawsuit against ReDigi, a service that allows users to store, stream, buy and sell "pre-owned" digital music. At the time, I thoug
March 18, 2013
New Study Says Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Digital Music Sales…. While Offering No Sales Data At All
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A new study published by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (part of the European Commission's "Joint Research Centre") asserts that "Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute t
February 8, 2013
Can Pressure on Major Brands Over Support of Piracy Sites Make a Difference?
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There's an encouraging, if modest, trend afoot in the ongoing battle against online piracy: rights-holders, recording artists, and those who support them are starting to make some noise of the sort that makes corpor
February 1, 2013
Cory Doctorow on the Difference Between Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
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Synchronicity is a funny thing. This morning, in deliberating what topic I should take up next on this blog, a question occurred to me: Why are so many advocates of unfettered file-sharing and/or online piracy als
January 30, 2013
Required Reading for Those Interested in the Subject of Online Music Piracy
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When it comes to the subject of the online piracy of music, there's no shortage of information available on the Web. Unfortunately, a lot of that information can be categorized as "questionable," if we're to be char
January 24, 2013
Piracy and the Entitlement Mindset, Again
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Earlier this week, I sent a link to my previous post on this subject to an old friend of mine. Once upon a time, we were both in local rock bands and fancied ourselves to be future professional musicians. These day
January 7, 2013
The Vimeo Case: A Study in “Knowledge” and “Control”
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At the heart of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the idea that Internet Service Providers should not be liable for infringements on copyright undertaken by third-party users of
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