Everyone loves author, professor, freedom fighter and all around copyright egghead Lawrence Lessig. Everybody except Warner Music. Lessig posted one of his presentations on YouTube that evidently contains some Warner Music content. This is certainly within the bounds of the fair use doctrine. Larry surely thinks so. But it appears that some bonehead lawyer... »
My old buddy Tom Silverman is reviving the New Music Seminar, a seminal music biz event that was last held in 1995. Tommy, along with two other guys, founded the New Music Seminar in 1980 and grew it into a must attend annual gathering. The revived NMS will be held in NY on July... »
Yes, the video that made the rounds yesterday of Beyonce shrieking through “If I Were A Boy” on the Today Show last November is a fake. Matthew Zeghibe, a 26 year-old computer arts student from Connecticut, admitted that he faked the whole thing with a little pitch correction software. Why did he do it?... »
I dare you to listen to this all the way through. One of our readers was nice enough to point this video out. It’s supposedly a live vocal feed from the sound board when Beyonce performed ”If I Were A Boy” last November on the Today Show. Talk about having a bad day. This is absolutely... »
Remember all of those Napster gift cards you would see in grocery stores and 7-Elevens all over the country? Now when you go into most supermarkets you’ll see a rack of preloaded gift cards for everything ranging from your standard Visa card to an Outback Steak House gift card. I guess that they make a... »
Looks like the EMI Lottery is a worldwide hit. This weekend I received an email from yet another winner. Alistaire Goolsby and his wife Madge of Perth, Australia bought an EMI Scratch & Sniff Lottery ticket last week and won an appropriately one-of-a-kind Katy Perry Pooper Scooper. As you can see, Alistaire is delighted with... »
Most download stores suck. But a buddy of mine has an interesting twist on the standard fare. James Glicker, past CEO of the Baltimore Symphony, former BMG Classics exec and co-founder of FullAudio (one of the earliest digital music download stores) founded Passionato last fall in the UK. The store differentiates itself by offer only classical... »
Everybody’s heard about the Pirate Bay ruling by now. There’s nothing I can add to everything that has been written so far other than to say that realistically it won’t have much impact. But my favorite take is Peter Kafka’s post in All Things Digital. »
Well, surprisingly it didn’t take that long to identify our latest mystery man. An anonymous reader said that it is Elio Sceti, CEO of EMI Music Group. Many readers were so pissed off that Anonymous posted the correct answer that they wanted me to ban him from the site! Not that I could or... »
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