Dominion Web Directory : Society : Issues : Intellectual_Property : Music

http://www.apcomms.org.uk/apig/current-activities/apig-inquiry-into-digital-rights-management.html

» 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.
http://www.apcomms.org.uk/apig/current-activities/apig-inquiry-into-digital-rights-management.html

» Beyondthecommons
Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
http://www.beyondthecommons.com/

» Boycott-Riaa.com
Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm

» Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet
The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm

» Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm

http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html

» Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War
Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html

» Downhill Battle
Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
http://www.downhillbattle.org/

http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html

» 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.
http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html

http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html

» 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.
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html

» Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album
Site organizing and then reporting on the results of the 24 February, 2004 protest against actions censoring the Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse.
http://www.greytuesday.org/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774

» 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
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774

http://www.news.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html

» News.com - File sharing legal in Canada
Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
http://www.news.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112677,00.asp

» PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA
A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112677,00.asp

http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html

» Piracy is Your Friend
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.
http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html

» Policing Pirates in the Networked Age
A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/

» Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html

» Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?
As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html

» The Droplift Project
Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
http://www.droplift.org

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx

» The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading
Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx

» The Problem With Music
Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

» We Hate the RIAA
Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/