Month: October 2017

NY Post says Google actually took down the C3 “YouTube Can Do Better” video–from YouTube! via Goliath Never Learns: Tone Deaf Google Takes Down a True Parody by Content Creators Coalition — MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY

Share these with your friends.   Two new videos from Content Creator Coalition succinctly explain the problem with YouTube for artists.  These videos will help civilians understand the fundamental unfairness of existing regulations. First, YouTube pays a lot less than other licensed streaming services. Second, YouTube hides behind a bad interpretation of the DMCA copyright… Continue reading Content Creators Coalition Nails It With New YouTube Ads #updatetheDMCA

asAnnouncing the inaugural Artists Rights Symposium hosted by The Music Business Certificate Program, Terry College at University of Georgia Jan 22-23.   The symposium is free and open to the public but seats are limited.  Contact Music Business Certificate Program for more information 706-542-7668.   ARTISTS RIGHTS SYMPOSIUM Jan 22-23 WHO YOU GONNA CALL? An examination… Continue reading Who You Gonna Call? University of Georgia Terry College Artists’ Rights Symposium Jan 22-23

Originally posted on Music Technology Policy:
“Why does Rice play Texas?” President John F. Kennedy, Sept. 12, 1962, Rice University It should be clear by now that when it comes to sheer lobbying power expressed in terms of money and access, Big Tech has put the creative community up against it.  And not only has…

Dear Google…er…uh-I mean American Library Association: Really?  The American Library Association and it’s members are really gonna be impacted by a voluntary “small claims” copyright court?   How? How could this possibly have any impact on your member libraries?  This is quite a stretch even by Google apparatchik standards. While there will always be plenty… Continue reading Once Again @Alalibrary Have No Dog in Fight but Come out Against Authors on Copyright Small Claims

A Google Search for Ringo Starr’s “It Don’t Come Easy” returns a YouTube video as top result.  Try it at home but our experience shows for nearly any song the first result is a YouTube video.  If Google search results are as it claims “speech” isn’t Google favoring its own properties over competitors?  Isn’t Google… Continue reading If Google Claims It Is a Publisher and Search Results Are Its Own Speech Then Isn’t Google Illegally Favoring Youtube?

Mark Zuckerberg supports universal basic income. #BasicIncome pic.twitter.com/Z72rMJtP82 — Basic Income Images (@BasicIncomeIMG) September 15, 2017 These 21st Century Robber Barrons will expect the taxpayer to pay for those smart roads or if the beneficiaries of the infrastructurer will pay, they will expect to own the roads, no doubt. So the taxpayer will pay for… Continue reading The Flaw Behind Zuckerberg’s Universal Basic Income Scam — MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY

I literally laughed out loud when I saw that American University Washington Law School Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property has invited the controversial Canadian academic Michael Geist to give a “balanced” talk on NAFTA, copyright and intellectual property.  (Editor note:  What IS information justice? How do “things” receive justice?) Although Geist has largely… Continue reading Geist is More than Unbalanced on Copyright: Note to American University @WCL_PIJIP @Sean_Fiil_Flynn ‏

Spotify’s counsel Christopher Sprigman recently made the argument in  Bluewater Music Services v. Spotify that the service isn’t required to pay mechanical royalties to songwriters because they aren’t really making copies  except for those covered by “fair use” and “ephemeral” exceptions.   This extremely aggressive argument seems to many (but not all*) music publishing experts… Continue reading Torrent Freak Reports that Spotify Used “Pirated” MP3 Files To Launch Service and Why That Matters

The always entertaining David Newhoff has an excellent new blog post on the success of efforts to reign in advertising sponsored piracy.  The amount of “premium” advertising from major brands has shrunk dramatically.  The advertising remaining on the sites are sketchier and the sites are now often loaded with malware. “As many readers know, the… Continue reading Efforts Against Ad Supported Piracy Show Results