Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'future of music'
Wired follows up the Qtrax press release with a "not so fast"
Well, it's more than a bit odd for a company to jump the gun as seriously at it appears that Qtrax did yesterday (see my post from yesterday, just below this one), according to this follow-up article, Wired News -...
Labels finally admit that p2p business model is legit
It is more than a bit confusing how the major labels can all have recognized only recently that DRM failed as a business model in connection with sales of tracks, and simultaneously have finally embraced p2p supported by advertising, but...
And then there were none
No need to comment really: Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM. DRM is history in the music biz. Now for books and movies....
So 2007 was the year of abandon ...
... Abandoning DRM anyway. Warner's Entire Digital Music Catalog For Sale on Amazon as MP3s | Listening Post from Wired.com. With this announcement on Wired news, we learn that 3 of the 4 majors have now concluded that sales...
The end of the debate is in sight
So says Andy Oram at O'Reilly Radar, Music industry association recommends flat-rate file sharing. He's talking about a rumored proposal by the Danish equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA combined, that is, the International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers,...
DRM free tunes and mass digitization have something in common
So, Apple has lowered the price of its DRM-free tunes to .99: Apple lowers price of DRM-free iTunes songs - Digital Life - MSNBC.com, and *not* in response to competition from competitors such as Walmart and Amazon that sell DRM-free...
Intermediate fair use and the creative process
Bill Patry, in reporting on a case involving the issue of which version of a screenplay to compare to another work to establish the similarity of an infringing work to the work it supposedly infringed, The Patry Copyright Blog: And...
Mark Cooper's short research note about the revolution in the music industry, 7 years into the decade
Mark Cooper has posted a short research note, Music Downloads - A Victory for Consumers and Artists at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. It refers to music industry data to make the case for the victory it describes....
Losing sleep over copyright
I don't often lose sleep over copyright issues anymore. But last night I could not stop thinking about the Copyright Office's new resource for *children.* Please have a look if you haven't already: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright. There's...
Nice to hear something positive about the music biz
Print is Dead has a nice piece focusing on how much has changed in the music industry by comparing the release 40 years ago of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band with Paul McCartney's latest release: Print is Dead: Books...
A Big Week for Copyright; End of First Year of Grad School for Georgia
It was a big week for copyright. Events were reported all over the blogosphere. My friend and fellow grad student, Carlos Ovalle, has a nice roundup on his blog, Copy This Blog, where he reports several unsurprising legal opinions based...
Copyright and the Long Tail
If you are unfamiliar with the idea of the Long Tail, I urge you to visit the Website where this story is posted for more information generally, and of course to read this little note about lost opportunities, lost expression,...
Remember April 2, 2007
It's official. The third largest music distributor, EMI, announced today with Apple's Steve Jobs that it would offer its entire catalog DRM-free on iTunes: EMI, Apple To Sell DRM-Free Music for $1.29/song. Et voila, do we have the beginning of...
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