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Wired News

July 23, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Wired News: What If Napster Was the Answer? Who knew!?!
Well, everyone except the RIAA and the record companies that it represents, I guess. Oops.

Tags: Copyfight

Today on Feed

May 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Today on Feed you’ll find a remarkable interview with Cory Doctorow, by Stephen Johnson.

Tags: Copyfight, Media

The copyright question

March 22, 2001 by Michael Boyle

that has most touched me and my friends – far more than Napster since I know so many writers – is being heard by the Supreme Court next week: Writers Fight for E-Rights. A couple of things spring to mind. First, there were signed contracts that specified the limited rights of the publications that purchased the articles. Second, this can be dealt with easily by splitting things up the middle – keeping the publications and historians happy by mandating that the items be licensed by writers for archival purposes, but paying them for the additional usage. Third – this is coming to the music world eventually. As I’ve written, I’ll come much closer to supporting record labels in their anti-Napster (etc.) fight the minute I see them taking steps to commit to paying the artists for electronic rights to the music.

Tags: Business, Copyfight, Music

Liberation Musicology

March 5, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Liberation Musicology: an interesting take on the Napster decision from The Nation. I’m a sucker for phrases like, “The Napster case has much to teach us […] about the liberative possibilities of the decay of the cultural oligopolies that dominated the second half of the twentieth century.”

Tags: Copyfight, Music

Derek Powazek on copyright

September 13, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Derek Powazek on copyright. I share some of his uncertainty on this matter. Every writer, designer, artist, musician, programmer… well, everyone should be a little uncertain. Even if you think Napster is the cat’s ass (and I do), there’s no panacea here. There’s no technical system that pops us into an ethical new world in which ideas are shared on principle and credit is given as a matter of course.

Tags: Copyfight

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