Why is There a Google Books, Part II: HAL Gets A Friend, or The Voice of the Machine
Google Books was just the start.
Google Books was just the start.
You may have heard that there was a settlement of the streaming mechanical rates in the Copyright Royalty Board proceeding called “Phonorecords IV”. You may not have noticed in all the backslapping that no settlement agreement was filed with the CRB by the parties. The Copyright Royalty Judges noticed (as did George Johnson) and the […]
Inflation is bad but the Copyright Royalty Judges have a chance to do something about it in Phonorecords IV and the #FrozenMechanicals crisis.
Mark Zuckerberg is building the bug-free infrastructure for the metaverse–inside your head. Remember–we are the bug.
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.
Remember that illegal New York compulsory license for books that Big Tech tried to sneak through? Vetoed.
Big Tech’s allied special interest groups are making another end run around copyright, this time using librarians as human shields.
Governor Larry Hogan illegal compulsory license for ebooks has created the Annapolis Autonomous Zone, the first state level TAZ.
Get the latest on how Maryland @GovLarryHogan and the Google metashills are screwing authors and rebuking Senator Thom Tillis–who’ll be next?