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...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...
...harsh punishment faced by Thomas and Bowser. “Increasingly, we’ve seen very stringent penalties for copyright related law-breaking,” he says. “The entertain-ment industry has been quite aggressive.” The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has enthusiastically endorsed the in-dictment. “Everyone who participates in the creation of music is especially gratified by this prosecution,” writes RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol in a press release.But as the recording industry takes the initiative, Assistant Dean of the College John...
...contact information for the operators of i2hub was made available on the website. The shutdown seemed to have come in response to fears of legal action. Users of i2hub, including several Harvard students, had already been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for allegedly using the service to share copyrighted music. The Motion Picture Association of America had also filed similar litigation against individuals who allegedly shared copyrighted movies over i2hub. Legal issues seem particularly likely to underlie the i2hub shutdown in light of the Supreme Court’s June decision in the case...