In Capitol v. Foster: Justice At Last and RIAA Lawsuit Setback: Defendant Wins Attorney Fees, defendant Debbie Foster of Oklahoma was granted attorney fees. RIAA dropped the suit against the mother...

Germany-based SellaBand takes online donations to the next level for new artists by banding together small contributions in a method it calls crowdsourcing. Artists upload a few cuts, send their fans...

RIAA is taking a new tactic in its fight on pirates of all stripes - jump on the Bush administration bandwagon to create a police state. The Bush administration, fresh on the heels of its success on...

This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...

In RIAA copyright infringement case Lava v. Amurao, the defendant has successfully raised an interesting legal theory of copyright misuse. Judge Charles L. Brieant rejected RIAA's motion to...

This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US box office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...

This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US box office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...

This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US box office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...

We covered the top PC music software earlier. The top six in order are Windows Media Player (WMP), realplayer, iTunes, RecordNow, MusicMatch, and Winamp. I put most of thousands of songs in folders...

In "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?" Mark Helprin writes "No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can...

TUNGLE TAMES $1.5 MILLION FOR P2P MEETINGS Tungle has secured $1.5 million of venture financing from leading Canadian venture funds JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital, and US angel Alex...

stanford university has created a DMCA policy to comply with RIAA demands that it control its students. The University claims that responding to RIAA complaints takes up the time of three full-time...

A young filmmaker talks about pirates who bootlegged his independent movie, and concludes "two wrongs don't make a right. But it's a start."......

The RIAA has dropped a RIAA copyright infringement in BMG v. Thao after accepting that the defendant was incorrectly named by the ISP. The ISP identified Mr. Thao as holder of the account whose IP...

pandora, a music recommendation service, moved off the PC to the mobile market with deals with Sprint (mobile phones), SanDisk (portable media players), and Sonos (wireless home stereo systems). The...

The next generation of the computer game Guitar Hero will be called Rock Band and ready for fantasy rock stars everywhere by the end of the year. The game is being developed by Harmonix Music Systems...

Attorney Ray Beckerman is bringing out a big gun in RIAA copyright infringement case UMG v. Lindor. Beckerman announced the appointment of expert Prof. Johan Pouwelse, Assistant Professor in the...

Consumers are strongly reacting negatively to DRM. But here will always be situations where it's better accepted, such as for business and hard-to-share content. I wrote about this in "The...

ZOPA SCORES $12.9 MILLION FOR P2P LENDING Zopa is two years old and based in Britain. Zopa specializes in P2P lending, which directly connects individual lenders and borrowers and bypasses a bank or...

Science fiction author Spider Robinson wrote a brilliant story about copyrights 25 years ago, long before the ongoing fight we have today. "Melancholy Elephants" won the 1983 Hugo Award for...