Archive for the ‘Music industry’ Category

Thinner - or, how a music label also can look like

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

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 ...

Music industry still insisting on DRM

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

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 ...

Minilink: Universal Music sues Myspace

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

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.)

Apple accuses French of “state-sponsored piracy”

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

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 ...

DoJ investigates music price fixing

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

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