Music Freedom (Intellectual Property)

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Boycott CDs Boycott CDs: Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA. (Music Freedom) http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~chapinr/ The Problem With Music The Problem With Music: Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive. (Music Freedom) http://www.negativland.com/albini.html RIAA Radar 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/ Beyondthecommons Beyondthecommons: Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights. (Music Freedom) http://www.beyondthecommons.com/ Why Free Music? Why Free Music?: A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music. (Music Freedom) http://www.free-music.com/freemus.htm RIAA Headlines.com RIAA Headlines.com: Features news and articles on the RIAA, MP3 files, music file sharing, the DMCA and related issues. (Music Freedom) http://www.riaaheadlines.com/ We Hate the RIAA We Hate the RIAA: Updates and forum on RIAA actions. (Music Freedom) http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/ Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/ News.com - File sharing legal in Canada News.com - File sharing legal in Canada: Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled. (Music Freedom) http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html Free Music 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study: Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales. (Music Freedom) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040406/tc_afp/us_internet_music Downhill Battle Downhill Battle: Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts. (Music Freedom) http://www.downhillbattle.org/ Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War: Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs. (Music Freedom) http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html The Droplift Project 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.droplift.org Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples: An international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples. Allowing the general public to sample from MACOS material freely, without incurring any legal ramifications. (Music Freedom) http://www.icomm.ca/macos/ Mass Mic Mass Mic: Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and contact information. (Music Freedom) http://www.massmic.com/ Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops? 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates? 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html Piracy is Your Friend 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA: A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures. (Music Freedom) http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112677,00.asp Boycott-Riaa.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. (Music Freedom) http://www.boycott-riaa.com/ Policing Pirates in the Networked Age 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. (Music Freedom) http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html