YouTube’s Director of Artist Relations Vivian Lewit appeared on a SXSW panel this year moderated by Tom Silverman. I asked the panel a simple question from the audience as did a couple other audience members. My question was how much per stream does your service pay to artists? YouTube’s Ms. Lewit was the only one […]
After our post yesterday about how Google drives traffic to pirate sites through Google Alerts (also supported by Facebook and Twitter), I got a chance to speak to Blake Morgan of ECR Music Group. (MTP readers will remember Blake from the #IRespectMusic campaign, still going strong.) Blake had the same experience with his label mate Janita (whom we interviewed […]
Google news alerts are emails sent to you by Google through the data analysis of its monopoly search engine. Yes, the all seeing Google knows a lot of stuff and they are happy to share it with you so you can share it with others. Google will send you a link that matches your news […]
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In honor of International Human Rights Day (December 10) let us revisit this post. It is not lost on professional creators and those who care about them that an already tough business has gotten tougher in the last decade. These creators watched—sometimes literally—their works being parlayed into billions for…
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According to Kent Walker, he likes the trial court decision in Viacom v. YouTube, the massive copyright infringement case brought by Viacom, the Premier League and a number of other copyright owners. Why? [T]he court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium…
tautology: needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.” Imagine you are trying to get a club promoter to book your band somewhere outside of your home base, perhaps somewhere you have never performed before. Remember–the promoter isn’t […]
MTP readers will recall Jann Arden and the many artists who stood up to the challenge to artist rights from the “QuickHitz” radio format at a Calgary radio station. “QuickHitz” advertises itself as broadcasting “Twice the Music”–and gets over the space-time continuum by cutting in half the already short singles edits of popular music. (Full […]
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YouTube once again demonstrates its recruiting power for the jihad with this video entitled “Equip a Fighter This Ramadan”. There’s some season’s greetings for you, eh? Because as the video advises, “whoever prepares a fighter has participated in the fight.” Mustafa Abi Al-Yazeed was the head of al Qaeda…
This is the second installment of my comments to the Department of Justice review of the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees (see Part 1 here): What Happened to the Bundle of Rights? It is axiomatic that under the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright is a bundle of rights.[1] Copyright owners are largely free to exploit their rights or […]
Google recently filed a tentative settlement with its stockholders over the $500,000,000 of the company’s money that Google’s executive team authorized be spent to keep from being indicted by a Rhode Island grand jury. (I invite you to read the sordid history in the settlement and also the story of the Google sting operation in the […]
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