Reposted from JUST ENRICHMENT
After a first day that was full of panels focused mostly on the business aspects of the music crisis, today the lawyers gave their views on the problems facing the music industry. With cleverly named sessions like “The Current State of Copyright Law,” and “The Future of Copyright Law,” and with preeminent [...]
Reposted from JUST ENRICHMENT
I took in a pretty full day of panels at Day 1 of the Rethink Music conference (my preview post from last night is here). While tomorrow’s lineup promises lots of great stuff on copyright law and policy, today’s schedule was pretty business-oriented. As such, I’ll hold off my explicitly legal analysis [...]
Reposted from JUST ENRICHMENT
For the next two days, this Humble Contributor will be attending a conference called “Rethink Music.” It promises two days of fascinating dialogue about the future of the music industry among artists, entrepreneurs, record company executives, lawyers, policymakers, academics, and students. Harvard’s Berkman Center has posted a great briefing book and a [...]
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
Randomly found this on the sidewalk.
Guest post by Whitney Harper
Buried in a document full of rejections, last week the Supreme Court denied to hear my case. I am a defendant in one of the tens of thousands of cases against peer-to-peer file-sharers. The music industry has pursued a litigation campaign in an attempt to hold a selection of individuals responsible for [...]
Posted by: Joel Tenenbaum
This is the pile of used CDs I’ve bought since the July 31st ruling. This could have been the RIAA’s business on iTunes, but this is now how I buy my music.
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
Over the years, my position has been misconstrued to be against a great number of things: intellectual property, artist rights, paid-for music, artists being paid, or even capitalism itself.
Let me clarify: I am against none of these things.
What I am against is the massive litigation campaign the RIAA has pursued against individuals [...]
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
I wanted to take a moment and share some reflections on the robust debate from our blog over the effects of file-sharing. Along with my unrelentingly dedicated team, we hope to post more often and utilize this website as a forum for dialog.
It seems the lesser-known artists benefit the most from file-sharing, and [...]
Posted for Professor Nesson
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Whitney Harper’s case is important, though its importance has yet to be noticed. It provides a key step in the legal logic that the RIAA will use down the road to justify ISPs terminating user’s net connections for violating copyrights. Innocence is no defense.
I’ve gotten a huge response from the latest round of news as people have found me on facebook and twitter, and I’m glad to hear how much interest there is and how much support is out there. I thought I’d respond to one of the more recurring questions.
Joel, do you still download music?
I buy [...]