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[Editor Charlie sez: This post originally appeared on March 9, 2012 but we thought it was worth a repost.] “Pretty soon, they all want to get into the act.” Attributed to Jimmy Durante Why Does The Press Consistently Get it More Wrong Than Right? I don’t know why the…
Originally posted on Music Technology Policy:
Please note: This is an installment in a multi-part post. Each post has information relevant to prior posts, so until we get to the “Final” there will be more information to come. See also More Questions for Artists: Record Producer Agreements, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.…
Nothing says internet freedom like getting away with it, and that disruptive spirit was front and center at Mashable today. Yes, the strong team of fact checkers at Mashable allowed this story to go out under their brand: Never Mind the [1,100] Lawyers, GoldieBlox Won Big in the Beastie Boys Fight. We’ll get to commenting […]
For whatever reason–one can never rule out doing the right thing, even with a Stanford grad–Goldiblox has taken their rip off commercial…sorry, remix commercial…no, no, parody video, yes that’s the ticket–apparently the Goldiblox parody video has been taken “private” on YouTube. There’s also a new Goldieblox video without the Beasties up on Google’s monopoly video […]
As MTP readers will know, part of Silicon Valley’s legal strategy for over a decade has been to twist the defense of “fair use” into an unrecognizable mass that has the same end result as all of the Valley Boys attacks on copyright–artists get nothing and Googlers can buy a $15 million soundproof love palace in […]
Pandora has apparently abandoned its truly misguided lobbying efforts that decimated its stock price and undid years of PR campaigns to create the illusion–as it turned out–that Pandora was on the side of artists and songwriters. According to Glenn Peoples writing in Billboard (see Pandora Stands Down on Legislative Push for Royalty Rate Reform: TKO […]
Producers and songwriters should be aware that in the Temporary Autonomous Zone of Northern California (home of the class action award payoffs to the EFF, Berkman Center and other places where copyright haters thrive), the new new thing appears to be suing record producers and songwriters. Rick Rubin in particular. According to Adland.tv: Last week […]
We wrote this article to help artists (mostly bands) get themselves organized. It’s a plain english checklist type piece that covers the common issues for new artsits. It’s free to download and link to! Download Twenty Questions for New Artists also available as podcasts on iTunes.
Right near the top of the Google Adwords “unapproved pharmaceuticals” list is ArimaDex. What is that, you say? According to the official ArimiDex website: Approved Uses for ARIMIDEX ARIMIDEX is approved for adjuvant treatment (treatment following surgery with or without radiation) of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer. ARIMIDEX is approved for the […]
We mostly care about whether YouTube videos violate state or federal laws and not so much about Google’s own policies. However, it’s interesting to note how Google uses YouTube videos as a dodge for what would likely be a violation of Adwords policies if the video (or the product in the video) were itself an […]
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