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Top: Society: Issues: Intellectual_Property: Music_Freedom:

Music Freedom (87)

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http://www.apig.org.uk/current-activities/apig-inquiry-into-digital-rights-management.html   » APIG inquiry into Digital Rights Management Open in a new browser window
   Details of the investigation and subsequent report by the UK Parliament's 'All Party Internet Group' into DRM systems in the music industry. Evidence was taken from campaigners and interested parties from all sides of the debate.
   http://www.apig.org.uk/current-activities/apig-inquiry-into-digital-rights-management.html

http://www.beyondthecommons.com/   » Beyondthecommons Open in a new browser window
   Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
   http://www.beyondthecommons.com/

http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~chapinr/   » Boycott CDs Open in a new browser window
   Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
   http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~chapinr/

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/   » Boycott-Riaa.com Open in a new browser window
   Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
   http://www.boycott-riaa.com/

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm   » Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet Open in a new browser window
   The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
   http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm   » Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates? Open in a new browser window
   Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
   http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm

http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html   » Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War Open in a new browser window
   Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
   http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html

http://www.downhillbattle.org/   » Downhill Battle Open in a new browser window
   Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
   http://www.downhillbattle.org/

http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html   » File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales Open in a new browser window
   Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
   http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html

http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html   » Free Music Open in a new browser window
   Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.
   http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html

http://www.greytuesday.org/   » Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album Open in a new browser window
   Site organizing and then reporting on the results of the 24 February, 2004 protest against actions censoring the Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse.
   http://www.greytuesday.org/

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040406/tc_afp/us_internet_music   » Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study Open in a new browser window
   Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales.
   http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040406/tc_afp/us_internet_music

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774   » NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute Open in a new browser window
   DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial relea
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html   » News.com - File sharing legal in Canada Open in a new browser window
   Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
   http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112677,00.asp   » PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA Open in a new browser window
   A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
   http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112677,00.asp

http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html   » Piracy is Your Friend Open in a new browser window
   A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
   http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html   » Policing Pirates in the Networked Age Open in a new browser window
   A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
   http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html

http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/   » RIAA Radar Open in a new browser window
   A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
   http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/   » Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty Open in a new browser window
   An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
   http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html   » Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops? Open in a new browser window
   As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
   http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html

http://www.supportug2.com/   » Supporters of the Real Underground Open in a new browser window
   Underground music supporting community web site, featuring news, artists and music.
   http://www.supportug2.com/

http://www.droplift.org   » The Droplift Project Open in a new browser window
   Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
   http://www.droplift.org

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx   » The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading Open in a new browser window
   Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
   http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html   » The Problem With Music Open in a new browser window
   Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
   http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/   » We Hate the RIAA Open in a new browser window
   Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
   http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/

http://www.free-music.com/freemus.htm   » Why Free Music? Open in a new browser window
   A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music.
   http://www.free-music.com/freemus.htm


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