Music Freedom Intellectual Property Issues

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.

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• Free Music - 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.
• Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet - The RIAA\\'s newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file issues swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading issues will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
• APIG inquiry into Digital Rights Management - 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.
• The Droplift Project - Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to intellectual property create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use intellectual property and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
• File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales - Argues that P2P doesn\\'t threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
• Beyondthecommons - Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, intellectual property copyright, and performing rights.
• The Problem With Music - Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the issues music industry so bloated and unproductive.
• Policing Pirates in the Networked Age - A professor of economics at the University of Texas at music freedom Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove music freedom their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
• Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates? - Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing intellectual property may intellectual property be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps intellectual property are actually intellectual property escalating.
• RIAA Radar - A tool that music consumers can use to issues distinguish whether music freedom an album was released by a issues member of the Recording music freedom Industry Association of America.
• Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War - Article discussing Canada\'s stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
• News.com - File sharing legal in Canada - Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, music freedom a federal judge ruled.
• Boycott-Riaa.com - Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association music freedom of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the music freedom industry lobbyists\\' attempts to control music sharing and music freedom copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
• The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading - Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines intellectual property both sides of the argument and sees file-trading intellectual property as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand intellectual property for change.
• PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA - A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers intellectual property instead of its own failures.
• Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops? - As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican issues senator is suggesting that maybe it\\'s time for some new issues laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
• Recording Industry vs. the People - Collects and shares information about the lawsuits brought music freedom against issues ordinary people by the RIAA and the music freedom majors. By issues Ray Beckermann, business lawyer in New music freedom York City.
• Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty - An economist says music piracy should be hurting intellectual property the recording industry, but it isn\\'t, and he intellectual property doesn\'t know why.
• NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute - 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
• Piracy is Your Friend - A manifesto for musicians who want to make intellectual property money music freedom in the new economy. Asserts that piracy intellectual property is a music freedom phony issue that record labels are intellectual property hyping in order music freedom to rip off artists.

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