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[Editor Charlie sez: Here’s a recent “content warning” video embedded from YouTube: So YouTube makes it look like they are screening violent videos, but all they are really doing is grabbing users email addresses to sell them other stuff and preserving Google’s monopoly over video traffic by allowing grotesque…
[Editor Charlie sez: Here’s an excerpt from an interesting interview from 2009 that Chris Castle did with Songwriters Guild of America President Rick Carnes, a great friend of MTP and a tireless fighter for songwriters. Read the full interview on the SGA blog.] Rick: You constantly take pro-copyright positions that are unpopular with many in […]
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We’ve all seen lawyer email signature blocks get longer and longer. Lots of disclaimers about a variety of subjects, but in light of the Google involvement with the National Security Agency and the use of the “third party doctrine“, one disclaimer caught my attention in the email signature of…
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Here’s another item that won’t make it into the Wikipedia article on “Google, Inc.” MTP readers will recall the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Berkeley Professor Geoffrey Nunberg, “Google Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars.” [Scholars] need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it’s…
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Let’s start at the beginning. Broadly speaking, each recording of a song contains two copyrights: the copyright in the “musical work” or what is commonly called the “song” and the copyright in the recording of the song, commonly called the “track” or the “master”. 90% of all mistakes made…
by Chris Castle Joaquín Almunia, the Vice President of the European Commission in Charge of Competition currently investigating Google’s unsavory business practices in Europe may wish to consider the dark underbelly of Google’s advertising business when deciding whether to give the company an unprecedented third opportunity to settle the competition questions against the global monopolist. […]
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The results-oriented “study” from the media lecturers at the London School of Economics sets out to “prove” that the graduated response law in the UK should be “reviewed” (which really means “stopped” as the authors later revealed in a blog post): The experiences of other countries that have implemented…
by Chris Castle In case you haven’t seen it, ever since the era of the Dot Bomb Bubble there’s been a “reverse commute” in Silicon Valley. This is mostly because of the low rental stock and high property prices in or near the broader Silicon Valley (including Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo) and the […]
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If I told you that the DMCA notice system at Google alone was taking $500,000,000 a year out of the already beaten down global creative community, would you say that is such a staggering sum it can’t be right? I think you’ll find that number is actually a low estimate…
After the BMI rate court decision, another good reason to get the government out of the songwriting business
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