shouting loudly

At a conference over the weekend, former Clinton Administration IP chief Bruce Lehman admitted that his brainchild of a law banning the circumvention of digital rights management technologies hasn’t worked out as well as he had hoped. The conference, Musical Myopia, Digital Dystopia: New Media and Copyright Reform (pdf), was at McGill University in Montreal [...]

Thinner is a German electronic music label that has been distributing MP3 files since 2001, with all tracks licensed under Creative Commons (Attrib-NoDerivs-NonCommercial). It’s nice to find labels like these that seek to distribute good music around the world. More labels that distribute music online can be found on their links page. (dibs to Christoph [...]

At their annual meeting in Cannes, the music industry is still trying to manage its digital rights, but it’s angering customers while failing to stop piracy. For starters,, here’s a choice quote from the article: Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired magazine, argues that some form of piracy should simply be accepted. “You [...]

No time to write a full post; I’m currently at the National Communication Association conference. But while I lunch, here’s the first of two minilinks: Universal sues MySpace for copyright infringement. (Link from Searchblog, via BoingBoing.)

The lower house of the French parliament just passed a law requiring digital content vendors to share the inner workings of their technological protection measures with rivals. Apple, the main target (with a lock on digital music sales), would have to allow its media player competitors to create media players that could accommodate their closed [...]

Here’s a shock: the big 4 music labels are under investigation by the DoJ for price fixing.