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Music industry wants iTunes to pay for 30 second clips
Like many places that sell digital versions of music, iTunes has a short, 30-second clip of a song so that customers can hear a portion of the song before they buy it. While this has always been...
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Buddy Holly – The Phone Call
From Boing Boing: Baboomska mcGeesk sez, “In 1956, Buddy Holly traveled to Nashville to record several songs. One of the songs he recorded was “That’ll Be The Day”, but the producer assigned to his...
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A shift towards online media isn’t necessarily a good one
A recent survey suggests that many people, particularly gamers, prefer to have physical media, but the makers of games and videos continue to push consumers towards online only content. In the US, the...
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Kindergarteners need to pay a fee for sheet music to songs
Germany’s music licensing agency, GEMA, has decided that preschools can no longer teach songs and have children perform them without paying a licensing fee for sheet music under a new tightening of...
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Jon Stewart on the “Common” issue
This really isn’t fun anymore. It’s just sad. What’s sadder is that so many people still buy into what FOX News is peddling. The Daily Show – Tone Def Poetry JamTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political...
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AT&T and blink-182′s Up All Night Fan Montage
This is how you treat your fans. To launch our first single in eight years, AT&T helped us search YouTube for every instance of fans using our music without our permission. And then we rewarded...
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Rhapsody shutting down its RAX DRM
Rhapsody has announced that they will be shutting down their RAX DRM encumbered music system and that users will have until November 7, 2011 to convert any music downloaded before July, 2008. On...
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The true cost of piracy
Interestingly, my Alma mater is third on the list of top pirating universities. Source.
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Songs of war: Sesame Street among songs used at Guantanamo Bay as torture
From Al Jazeera: In 2003, it transpired that US intelligence services had tortured detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib with music from Sesame Street. Human rights researcher Thomas Keenan...
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Party at the NSA
An upbeat song protesting NSA surveillance from the indie pop duo Yacht.
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