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The is a crucial year for the Internet in Europe, because 2017 will see key decisions made about the shape of copyright law in the EU. Tha...

The Beatles remain the iconic pop group, so news on VVN/Music that their very first single has now entered the public domain is something...

A recent issue of The New Yorker had a fine essay by Mike Spies about the joys of discovering and listening to music . But its overall to...

Techdirt has written before about the self-destructive vindictiveness of the copyright industries, which would rather die in a futile at...

Although the following is a little outside the mainstream of Open Enterprise, it does have a very clear moral with direct relevance to th...

When the UK Hargreaves Review of intellectual monopolies in the digital age came out last year, Techdirt noted that one of its innovation...

Music collection societies often figure in Techdirt thanks to their attempts to wring licensing payments from people on absurd grounds, li...

Performing rights societies probably don't have the best reputations here on Techdirt, but just when you think they can't get any ...

Most people will be familiar with Moore's Law , usually stated in the form that processing power doubles every two years (or 18 month...

As a way of fighting unauthorized sharing of digital files, DRM is particularly stupid. It not only doesn't work -- DRM is always bro...

In an interesting blog post, James Firth discusses a comment from music industry analyst Mark Mulligan , quoted in a BBC story about the d...

The music streaming service Spotify has adopted a rather unusual pattern of launches around the world. Founded in Sweden, it spread grad...

For a long time, the copyright industries have taken the position that they won't launch new digital music services until piracy is ...

A couple of months ago, Techdirt wrote about an EU politician's plan to build Internet surveillance into every operating system. As ...

A recent Techdirt post reminded us that thanks to its crazy copyright laws, the US won't be seeing anything new in the public domain...

Thanks to the good offices of @nzJayZee , I have just been sent to this musician's rather heartwarming Web site , wherein he says the f...

Yesterday I wrote about the BPI's reaction to the UK Government's response to the Hargreaves Report. Not surprisingly, the Musicia...

One of the central arguments I and others make is that piracy is actually *good* for media producers in all sorts of ways (there lots of lin...

One of the things that I and others like to emphasise is that investigating new business models is crucial for the survival of art, artists ...

An extremely feeble article in the Guardian parrots the recording industry's line that piracy is killing music: Global recorded music ...