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» 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.
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» Beyondthecommons - Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
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» 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.
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» Downhill Battle - Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» 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.
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» The Problem With Music - Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
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» RIAA Radar - A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
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» 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.
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» 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 release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI - the label controlling Beatles music - took legal action, and Web sites recently mounted a protest. Joel Rose reports. [7:42 streaming audio broadcast] (February 28, 2004)
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» 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. (January 27, 2004)
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