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...been limited to drug arrests, which are at least conceivably dangerous for officers. What are the chances that a couple of DJs will put up a fight? That didn’t stop the Fulton Country police department from deploying a SWAT team with guns drawn in a RIAA-sponsored copyright violation bust. Or take the South Carolina high school drug sweep where SWAT officers forced kids to lie prone at gunpoint as dogs searched their lockers (no drugs were found...
...necessary to include, one can at least hope that the suited men in Hollywood and New York read through all 300 pages.The two authors criticize the selfishness of the entertainment industry in closely guarding their products. They are obviously not close friends with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), but one can hope that the book’s abundance of positive examples is enough to convince the RIAA that Soulseek and LimeWire are not creations of the devil.“Wikinomics” is not exactly “boring,” per se. But faithful...
...still far from standing on solid ground. Listeners have stopped tuning in to commercial radio stations that continue to favor generic major label acts. Clear Channel Communications, one of the largest radio station owners in the United States, has been vilified just as much as the RIAA for its just business approach to the music industry. Entrenched in big business and afflicted by an orthodox attitude towards broadcasting, radio is in need of something. What that “something” concretely means is anyone’s guess.This column won’t claim to divine the future...
...also reassuring to know the Sisters haven’t lost any of their sense of humor or their fascination for the sexually explicit. (It’s a small marvel “Ta-Dah” avoided the brand of a Parental Advisory label. Clearly the RIAA needs to catch up on their slang.) The Sisters’ lyrics are as playful and unconventional as ever. That’s not to say the album is without missteps. “Paul McCartney,” for example, is a dismal low point. The song tries too hard...
...zero hour” of sampling occurred in the notorious “three notes” case of 2005, Bridgeport Music Inc. v. Dimension Films, in which the 6th Circuit Court ruled that the use of even three notes of a song constituted illegal sampling. Even the RIAA was opposed to this ruling, and these guys eat aborted fetuses for breakfast.Looking at it from this perspective, almost every creative work could be found “derivative” by clever lawyers. Didn’t I hear that Franz Ferdinand chord progression somewhere before? I certainly...