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Why Free Music?
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A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music.
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The Problem With Music
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Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
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Piracy is Your Friend
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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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The Droplift Project
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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
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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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RIAA Radar
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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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We Hate the RIAA
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Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
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Policing Pirates in the Networked Age
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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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Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
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An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
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Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?
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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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Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet
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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.
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Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
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Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
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Boycott CDs
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Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
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Beyondthecommons
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Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
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The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading
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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.
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Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study
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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.
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News.com - File sharing legal in Canada
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Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
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PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA
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A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
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Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War
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Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
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File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales
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Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
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Downhill Battle
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Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
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Supporters of the Real Underground
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Underground music supporting community web site, featuring news, artists and music.
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Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album
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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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NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute
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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]
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