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copyright driveby
Lots of chatter out there about music licensing costs on 80 year old music basically destroying the commercial prospects of the independent film Sita Sings The Blues. Interesting stuff, it’s always good to have these real-life examples of the deleterious effects of copyright maximalism. This one might be a particularly interesting one to keep [...]
depressing: bill patry stops blogging
William Patry’s announced on friday that he would be ending his blog; breaking my heart into tiny little pieces. In the public discourse about copyright issues in the US, Patry’s voice has always been one of the clearest, most reasoned, erudite, passionate, and scholarly. Whenever some copyright related issue has come up that I haven’t [...]
more about music
at the risk of becoming ⌘-f’s arts and entertainment writer, i’m going to talk a bit more about music today. first, a story:
i have a friend who is a well-known musician, Kristin Hersh. i was riding in her minivan with her, her husband Billy, and two of her sons then aged about 4 [...]
Never thought I’d find copyright paradise in Disneyland
as usual, i have copyright and culture on the brain. between the UMUC CIP symposium at the end of May and ALA in Anaheim last week, i’ve got a lot of thoughts rattling around in here. this ALA conference seemed unusually full of copyright-related material. In addition to the usual ACRL and OITP meetings concerning [...]
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