According to the Nashville Business Journal (“Google to Nashville’s music biz: Don’t fetishize the past“): Tim Quirk, head of Android global content programming, had two takeaways for a room filled with people from Nashville’s music business at today’s Google for Creators event: Don’t fetishize the past, and music is priceless….[Quirk said:] “We are here to […]
“Pirate utopias” have been a twenty year fascination with the anti-copyright crowd, spillover from the “information wants to be free” cult. The anarchist Peter Lamborn Wilson writing under the handle “Hakim Bey” wrote what is probably the best known book on the “pirate utopia” under the title “The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism” (1991) or, as it […]
Nobody in their right mind would ever give a money finder a flat “finder’s fee” when the finder is raising large amounts of money (see “Lehman Formula“). After the religious experience of the Amanda Palmer Kickstarter project, followed by Veronica Mars and Zach King, it occurs to me that Kickstarter is making too much money […]
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The State of Texas has lead the way in leveraging its live music business, and it’s not all Austin a city that has branded itself the “Live Music Capitol of the World”. There are bills introduced in the Texas legislature that incentivize venues to book more live music as…
It’s always great when the government follows up on an important issue to artists. Representatives Goodlatte and Schiff and Senators Hatch and Whitehouse sent this letter to Mr. Randall Rothenberg of the Internet Advertising Bureau that had this choice passage: We were pleased that your November 1, 2011 letter highlighted the IAB’s Network and Exchanges […]
Right after Google bought YouTube, Google lawyer Zahavah Levine spoke on a panel at the Beverly Hills Bar Association during which she described the “whack a mole” aspect of how infringing content is posted, reposted, and reposted again on YouTube–unless you want to make a deal with YouTube. (I happened to be speaking at the […]
“It’s really important that we protect the rights of really good looking people in this society,” Attorney Andrew Bridges of Fenwick & West (frequently representing Google) quoted at Beautiful Person Derek Khanna’s SXSW Panel ______________________________________ In a strange twist of fate, we were recently regaled last year with the sudden ascent of an unknown Hill […]
The good thing about the Internet is that it brings people together…the bad thing is that they previously only met in the slammer.
If I worked for a company like Google that got slammed by Members of Congress for promoting “sex club” apps on Android and YouTube, I’d be a bit careful about using the word “fetish” to describe anything, even metaphorically. But Google spends hundreds of millions in legal fees annually to try to force creators into […]
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