Noticed that the top e-mailed story from the entire Washington Post site the other today was regular radio columnist Marc Fisher’s latest Report from the RIAA front, containing this loaded handgun of a paragraph:
Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Copyright’
The RIAA – They Can’t Be Serious
Posted in Copyright, Digital Media, Music Media, Music industry, tagged Copyright, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jerry Del Colliano, Marc Fisher, RIAA, Sony Betamax on January 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
ASCAP & BMI – Mining the WV Mountains for Royalties
Posted in Copyright, Creative Class, Digital Media, West Virginia, tagged ASCAP, Austin, BMI, Branson, Cafe Cimino, Cathedral Cafe, Copyright, Create WV, live music, MO, Purple Fiddle, West Virginia on November 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So there I was minding my own business in an afternoon session of the Create WV conference, listening attentively at a panel called “Creating Places to Hang Out.” The premise is simple enough: How to create so-called “third places:”
“The places we spend our time away from work and home are [...]
The Empire Strikes Back
Posted in Copyright, Digital Media, Music industry, Radio, Rock Radio, tagged ASCAP, CBS Radio, Clear Channel, Copyright, FCC, INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA, Internet Radio, Jerry Del Colliano, Kenneth Adelstein, Kurt Hanson, public radio, Radio Paradise, Sound Exchange, The Globe on March 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The latest positioning tag line from The Globe (the new “Green” radio format in DC I wrote about a while back) is a little closer to the mark: “Corporately Owned, Listener Monkeyed-Around With.” Bad grammar aside, I’d argue that at least half that statement is factual – and it’s the corporate owners who have [...]