Why Artists Should Care About @AGSNYT: How The Times Thinks About Privacy
Artists and songwriters need to demand answers for how their fans data is used on the music sites they drive them to use.
Category: Brand Supported Piracy
“ISIS is armed with butcher knives, captured weapons and YouTube…”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid it down today in his speech to a joint meeting of Congress: “ISIS is armed with butcher knives, captured weapons and YouTube…” This will come as no surprise to MTP readers as we have been hammering this issue for a long, long time. And of course YouTube has gotten […]
4 Million DMCA Notices Don’t Stop the Google Piracy Machine: How Google Drives Traffic to Pirate Sites Through Google Alerts
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 […]
Did Mr. La Rue Miss the Elephant in the Room? A Critique of the Report of the Special Rapporteur to the U.N. Human Rights Council (Complete Post)
Originally posted on Music Technology Policy:
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…
Poll: Ad Agency Giants Unite for More Innovative Brand Sponsored Piracy?
Some of you may have seen the story about the merger of Omnicom and Publicis the huge global advertising agencies. When the House IP Subcommittee holds hearings about “innovation”, they will hopefully be interested in the effect of this merger on brand sponsored piracy. We have noted in the past that Omnicom clients (particularly Chiat […]
Stealing is Good for You Says CCIA and GAO: A match made in heaven
Washington lobbyist Matt Schruers, who works for the Computer & Communications Industry Association, is floating a paper released by the Government Accountability Office (“Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods” (GAO-10-423)). So you get the context, the Computer & Communications Industry Association is a very well funded […]
Objects Are Smaller Than They Appear: Chevrolet Does the Right Thing
How in the world a company the size of Chevrolet could have thought it a good use of taxpayer dollars to sponsor the mobile version of Grooveshark is beyond me (Chevrolet is a division of GM–you know, Government Motors). I don’t know what rock these people live under, but apparently they missed stories like this […]
UPDATE: Chiat Day’s Confusing Messaging In Times Square Continues Redux
Many years ago in another galaxy far, far away, I was part of a musician and composer crew that created tons of advertising for TV and radio. Our story today begins when my group was up for a national ad campaign for a major retail brand. Our version of the campaign was a very lean […]
They can Bitcoin, but it would break the Internet to stop brand sponsored piracy
From Wikipedia: Process The steps to run the network and generate or “mine” bitcoins are as follows: New transactions are broadcast to all nodes. Each node collects new transactions into a block. Each node works on finding a difficult proof-of-work for its block. When a node finds a proof-of-work, it broadcasts the block to all […]
Where Did the Idea for Stopping Brand Sponsored Piracy Originate?
I’ve had enough questions lately about why I started focusing on brand sponsored piracy that I thought it important enough to give credit where it’s due. It all started with this quotation from Professor Eric Goldman, commenting on the dip in Google’s stock price after the announcement that it had dodged a career-ending indictment for […]
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