Kim Fowley died on January 15. There are a lot of people who really despised Kim but I’m not one. The first time I met Kim was at David Clayton Thomas’s wedding reception in Toronto at the Royal York Hotel. (For those who don’t know, David was the lead singer for Blood Sweat & Tears.) […]
It should come as no surprise that following the Charlie Hebdo assassinations, France, Germany and the UK are considering how to deal with the spread of jihadi propaganda by means of “social media”. Why? Because the major social media platforms allow jihadi propaganda to flourish by hiding behind “intermediary liability” statutes, or more precisely broadening […]
If you follow Google’s policy blog, you might have seen this post by Google’s head lobbyist, Susan Molinari: There are few issues more horrifying than human slavery and trafficking. Yesterday, the House of Representatives took important steps to address these issues by passing twelve bills aimed at helping the victims and calling attention to these criminal acts. […]
Thanks to the efforts of music makers and the fans and journalists who love them–who clearly respect music more than YouTube does–the latest round of abuse on Zoë Keating from YouTube has resonated all the way to Brussels where indie label trade group IMPALA launched a new initiative against Google inspired by the reaction to YouTube’s treatment […]
Originally posted on The Trichordist:
musiThis is a call to action folks. Many of you may already be aware of this blog post from Zoë Keating detailing the new terms of the Google/YouTube “Music Key” service. YouTube’s “communications manager” Matt McLernon has followed the Spotify approach and attacked Zoë Keating’s story as “patently false” although it looks like Google…
…there was lunch in the larger, first floor cafeteria where, in the corner, on a small stage there was a man, playing a guitar, who looked like an aging singer-songwriter Mae’s parents listened to. “Is that….?” “It is,” Annie said, not breaking her stride. “There’s someone every day. Musicians, comedians, writers….We book them a year […]
As we have pointed out many, many times on MTP, YouTube routinely hosts videos that can only be described as recruitment tools for jihad. Some are fundraising tools, such as “Equip A Fighter for Ramadan”–the most bone-chilling metadata we’ve seen on YouTube. Some use copyright infringement–a YouTube specialization–to glorify jihad. The Ridley Scott picture “Kingdom […]
[Editor Charlie sez: This continues from Part 1] We saw in Part 1 that a sound recording is comprised of two separate and distinct copyrights: The copyright in the song (“©”) and the copyright in the recording of the song (“℗”). We also saw that the two fundamental divisions of each of these separate copyrights […]
Shortly before Google Glass launched, Jonathan Blum wrote a column on the product in his Digital Skeptic column on TheStreet.com–and he was the first columnist to predict the demise of Glass (“The Digital Skeptic: Terms of Service Could Shatter Google Glass“). Blum interviewed me for the column and he concluded: Here’s the investor kick in […]
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 anyone in discussions of the […]
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