‘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.’
Jan
20
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‘EMI won’t let us let you embed our YouTube videos. It’s a decision that bums us out.’
Jan
19
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[You artists are all in the wrong bidniz ;p )
Jan
17
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‘But in the end I believe most of the impetus behind the drive to copyright reformation is about maintaining crumbling monopolies as the world changes around us.’
Jan
16
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‘The precise way I had looked at doing this does not work because I had been listening too much to the language being used about this being a Bill that was about people who downloaded copyrighted material. ‘
Jan
14
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‘Move over, and let those of us who value sustainability, artistic freedom and a conversational relationship with our audience over fame, celebrity and selling-millions-of-records-while-still-losing-money get on with what we do, using the tools that make it possible.’
Jan
14
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28 lawsuits brought across the country from December 2005 through July 2006
Jan
13
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Under an amendment, ‘Google would be free to copy everything — but a publisher blocking search spiders with a robots.txt file would be taken as withholding that right …’
Jan
13
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‘The statement with the highest agreement “I denounce the ACTA” drew 22/25 responses.’
Jan
11
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‘ … large corporations charging private citizens tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, for downloading a few songs here and there. And it’s intuitively obvious that it can’t possibly be worth that.’
Jan
10
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“I bet that in Mozart’s time there were many other active musicians in and around Prague and Vienna and there’s a reason we’re not aware of their names and their works. Some of them probably even made their living at it, but many more would have been what used to be called the village band, [...]