He’s horning in on the Three Strikes farce and unsurprisingly, he’s on the side of the corporate music industry and Featured Artists’ Coalition.
Feb
5
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The IPO will ‘clarify and clean up contracts between artists and record companies by appointing a team to ‘ensure artists don’t sign everything away when they are young’.
Feb
5
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‘The best music always seemed to be coming from the worst of times. And people will always need that.’
Jan
30
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‘The idea that you “can’t compete with free” or that free means there’s no business model is a myth.’
Jan
29
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Where a ‘third party copyright holder makes an allegation of copyright infringement to your ISP, and without any due process or adjudication, your ISP disconnects you from the Internet’.
Jan
28
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‘Three-strikes will fail when the results become apparent to those even outside of the artist and fan contingencies. The only question is how much damage will be done … before that failure is complete.’
Jan
28
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‘More than half of the respondents were professional musicians. Any consideration of the results must take this unusual representation into account.’
Jan
27
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‘The iTunes Store is killing the music business. Sure, it provides a legal alternative to theft/copyright infringement, but the economics make no sense.’