Skip to content
  • Is your band registered to vote?
  • Legal, Copyright and Comment Policy
  • Read Key Background Materials

Music Technology Policy

News from the Goolag Since 2006 ~ A survival guide to the creative apocalypse: We follow issues and opinion important to professional creators. Data is the new exposure.

Month: August 2006

Written by Editor CharlieAugust 30, 2006August 31, 2017

Dangerous Shoals: SIRA Letters of Direction are a Land Grab

The Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, the Internet and the Courts of the U.S. House of Representatives is currently negotiating the Section 115 Reform Act (aka “SIRA”). Section 115 of the U.S. Copyright Act is the section that establishes a statutory license for songs that have previously been released on what is called a “phonorecord” (either […]

Written by Editor CharlieAugust 18, 2006

But Do Their Eyes Glow?: The Children of the Lessig God and the Viking Pirate Kings

Ah, the Kingdom of Sweden. I have always heard how wonderful it is to spend the summer in Sweden, but apparently things have changed. It is now the “fantastically cool freculture country of Sweden” according to Professor Lessig, with what the professor describes as the “very interesting” “Piracy Party”. And of course, the Pirate Party […]

Written by Editor CharlieAugust 4, 2006

Why You Hate Net Neutrality if You Love Copyright

When we go to the post office to mail a letter, we can choose how we want the post office to rank our mail compared to other mail in the queue. We can buy a first class mail stamp, but if it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, we would turn to Federal Express […]

Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Music Technology Policy
    • Join 1,552 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Music Technology Policy
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar