The latest Nine Inch Nails album has been released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (via Lessig). While the license isn’t quite free as in freedom, it’s a huge step forward; it allows sharing (copying, distribution, performance) and remixing, though only for non-commercial purposes. Reznor, now label-free, released the album […]
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Bob Lefsetz thinks that MTV is responsible for Barrack Obama’s success. Maybe “thinks” is the wrong word. The outlet has featured a rainbow of human beings. Of all ethnicities. Not only black, but brown and multiracial… I won’t say those under thirty five are without prejudice. But I will say […]
Know who’s awesome? Alina Simone. Jadea and I played a gig with her at the Rancho Relaxo back in September. I didn’t get a chance to talk with her afterwards, but I bought her CD – Placelessness. I didn’t have any Canadian cash on me, but they were happy to […]
The first two tracks off Jadea Kelly’s upcoming release have been posted to her MySpace profile and I’m on violin – check it out!
I’ve been called many things before, both good and bad, but “secret weapon” has got to be one of my all-time favourites. Well, second favourite… being asked “were you a ninja?” when returning to my high school definitely tops the list. Last night, I played my first gig on violin […]
Since the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) proposed to legalize file sharing, many Canadian groups have responded, both positively and negatively. The Canadian Music Creators Coalition called it a “forward thinking approach” that ought to be discussed, while foreign corporations’ Canadian representatives (such as the Canadian Recording Industry Assocation) slammed […]
A few months ago, someone recommended reading Bob Lefsetz’s blog for some honest commentary on the music industry. I took the advice and subscribed. What a loud mouth. I can only imagine how annoying it would be to actually listen to him speak (speak? rant? spew? yabber?). First of all, […]
William Patry highlights Cary Sherman’s defence of the RIAA against the recent Washington Post article, offering further explaining for the quote that copying a song you bought is a “nice way of saying ‘steals just one song’” from a Sony BMG representative: “The Sony person who (Fisher) relies on actually […]
I take it back. According to TechDirt the Washington Post got it wrong. The RIAA isn’t (yet) insane enough to bring a lawsuit against someone for merely copying files to their computer, but the lawsuit in question is actually one of simply making those files available (which is contestable as […]