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One of the best windows into the otherwise dark and murky world of backroom deals among proponents of intellectual monopolies can be found i...

Words matter, which is why the RIAA has always framed copyright infringement in terms of "piracy". But it has a big problem: most...

Yesterday I told the story of RMS and his magic bread, and what it taught us about sharing; here's the negative corollary, courtesy of ...

Nice post from Ed Felten summarising the slow but unstoppable death of DRM. Telling tidbit: it's interesting to see traditional DRM su...

People seem to be jumping to all the wrong conclusions on this : After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via t...

Those e-petition replies just keep on coming. In response to the following: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to not force int...

This looks like a very serious attempt to bring in maximalist intellectual monopolies through an agreement called SECURE under the aegis of...

Here's an important observation : Though there is already a growing body of legal decisions that seem to be weighing against RIAA effort...

British-based music industry umbrella the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is now rapidly acquiring the reputation the ...

The idea that a Draconian "three strikes and you're out" approach will actually stop people from downloading copyrighted mater...

I'm not sure that these e-petitions do any good, but since they exist, it seems churlish not to use them. Here's another one Brits...

The recording industry is an extraordinary example of not learning from experience. You would have thought that the backlash against its he...

Imagine : A newly study commissioned by Industry Canada, which includes some of the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian populat...

Fair use (fair dealing in the UK) is the Cinderella in the world of intellectual monopolies. Some brazen monopolists have even gone so far ...

I've written about this idea before , but it's good to see further evidence that you can make plenty of money from music without wo...

...and it will hang itself. One of the under-appreciated benefits of a medium like Web publishing that has practically no barriers to entry ...

This fine piece of doggerel deserves to become No. 1. It could do with a catchier title, though: instead of "Ode to the RIAA", ho...

The RIAA has done a huge service by taking on the doughty AllofMP3 service. The December 21 lawsuit argues that 11 million songs were all...

One idea gaining currency is that of creating a patchwork of free wireless Internet access points by leaving your WiFi network open for anyo...

Well, it was bound to happen : The recording industry sued XM Satellite Radio on Tuesday over its new iPod-like device that can store up to ...