Why is There a Google Books, Part II: HAL Gets A Friend, or The Voice of the Machine
Google Books was just the start.
Category: News from the Data Lords
Unexpected Raging 9.1% Inflation Allows CRJs an Unexpected Opportunity for Fairness in Frozen Mechanicals Solution
Inflation is bad but the Copyright Royalty Judges have a chance to do something about it in Phonorecords IV and the #FrozenMechanicals crisis.
We Are the Bug: The Metaverse is Coming and the Zuckerbergs intend to dominate it
Mark Zuckerberg is building the bug-free infrastructure for the metaverse–inside your head. Remember–we are the bug.
#StopCRBAbuse: Can Songwriters stop Big Tech from demanding your contracts and royalty earnings be handed over to them in Copyright Royalty Board?
If you’re not closely following the shenanigans at the Copyright Royalty Board, you may not be aware that your publishers are being retired to hand over your once-private royalty statements and contract to the legion of Big Tech lawyers. How can we stop them?
What are DSPs hiding from royalty audits?
DSPs going out of their way to use CRB to take advantage of the “protections” from royalty audits they wrote into the Music Modernization Act over the heads of the lobbyists.
Google’s Shameful Bullying Tactics on Display Again in Copyright Royalty Board
Google is getting millions of pages of songwriter royalty statements to “test” whether songwriters have been screwed by Big Tech. Who wants to bet they never read a word of it?
Spotify’s ESG Problem: Environment Fail
Streaming is awful for the environment–uses vast quantities of energy requiring huge data centers. So how can any streamer pass the E test in ESG?
All Economic Indicators Are Flashing Red at the Copyright Royalty Board on Frozen Mechanicals
Economic indicators confirm that the plan to freeze mechanicals at 2006 levels looks more insane with each passing day.
In Which Jeff Bezos Gets a Paddling from China’s Xi Jinping Over a Bad Book Review
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos kowtows to China’s grand poobah Xi Jinping and deletes bad reviews of Xi’s absurd book.
Justice, Thy Name is Kathy: NY @GovKathyHochul Vetoes the Metashills’ Illegal Library Compulsory License
Remember that illegal New York compulsory license for books that Big Tech tried to sneak through? Vetoed.
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