Music lovers, unite! I have long felt that music sites like Pampelmoose and other MP3 blogs are the new radio. I argued as much in an essay for the IFPI site after receiving a takedown notice of my own. Justin, the man behind Muxtape has written a passionate and intelligent post explaining his love of [...]
If this is just a PR stunt by Axl Rose’s handlers I have a feeling that the public image of the RIAA will once again be badly damaged. The story here doesn’t even make sense. It appears that a takedown notice was sent to Cogill in June and the songs were removed. Cogill was [...]
In a mashup culture all manner of digital and graphic goodies get mashed. Mashup artists run along a tightrope that is pinned at one end by copyright law and the other by fair use doctrines. There is no safety net not even under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA]. If a copyright holder feels her [...]
I received yet another lovely notice from Facebook today about “possible infringement” not “actual” but “possible.” Read on -
Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement
We have removed your video entitled “Cut Copy, party at Dave’s, Nemo puts up the posters” uploaded at 2:23pm April 29th, 2008. We did this because we learned that your video might include [...]