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" The Artist " may have won several Golden Globes, but there's at least one person who apparently hates the film because of s...

Copyright has its convenient myths. The principal one is that copyright is intellectual *property*, which taps into our natural tendency to...

A few months ago, Musopen ran a fundraiser on Kickstarter: Musopen is a non-profit dedicated to providing copyright free music content: mus...

Eric Whitacre is that remarkable thing: a composer able to write classical music that is at once completely contemporary and totally approac...

One of the reasons I am so excited by Spotify is that it is asymptotically approaching an online library of All Music. Even in its necessar...

By now, it's evident that the old model of music distribution is irredeemably broken. This has led to various attempts to offer downloa...

One of the huge benefits of openness and sharing is that it divides up tasks into smaller, less onerous pieces: everyone contributes a littl...

As a young lad getting into classical music, Gramophone was my bible. I would read it pretty much from cover to cover, and it became an im...

It might seem strange that an avowed lover of high-tech and music should not have a DAB radio: but so it is with me. In part, it's beca...

Here's another billion reasons why DRM'd music downloads will die out - and why copyright law will need to be rewritten: Like milli...

I and many others have written about the pathetic moves by the BBC in terms of adopting Windows DRM, but you've got to give it to Cory, ...

When it comes to digital music, Magnatune is definitely on the side of the angels : We call it "try before you buy." It's the...