We mentioned back in March the Harvard-UNC study by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf which seemed to indicate that Internet music file sharing has no negative effect on legitimate music sales. Oberholzer-Gee discusses what the industry should do next with Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge: Sean Silverthorne: The draft of …
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Nude Nudes in Cleveland!! And Other Matter of Cultural Activism
I don’t talk enough about Thomas Mulready’s Cool Cleveland newsletter and website, which tackles real and difficult matters of culture and activism in a truly local way. I admit it: I am something of a mercenary. Even though I have lived in the Cleveland area for a total of 22 …
Read More »Blog of the Nation
With blogs turning up in the mainstream media virtually every day, it astounds me that there are still vast swaths of the population that haven’t heard of them. So the more coverage the merrier, evne if it’s the same story over and over again. NPR’s Talk of the Nation did …
Read More »(Mostly) Live and Active
Although I haven’t attended, I am totally down with the Bonnaroo concept of peace, love and eclectic jam bands, and I have no problem with declaring this year’s show another success – the numbers speak for themselves. But what I don’t get is an extended pat on one’s back that …
Read More »Blogonomics
As all regular readers and contributors know, we’ve had a roller coaster ride here at Blogcritics over the last few weeks: we had to pick up and change hosting companies precipitously with the cost in that area rising dramatically, the move also generating all kinds of technical issues that have …
Read More »Blogsnow
The invaluable ResourceShelf site tells us about a new blog resource called Blogsnow. “Blogsnow ‘reads’ blogs, depending on what’s going on between 100 and 240 a minute. Out of this stream of information it extracts links and displays them in different views every 10 minutes.” “In the top section you …
Read More »Good Day Sunshine – Beatles Finally Go Online
You see, there was this band called the Beatles, and at one time they ruled the planet. And they still semi-rule the planet, even though half of them are dead and the other half are into their seventh decades of life. But despite their unrelenting good fortune – or perhaps …
Read More »Mercora – Legal P2P Via Webcasting
The legal and regulatory points are arcane and bone dry, but the implications for the future of file sharing are staggering. A little rethinking goes a long way, it would appear – this is very clever: A former McAfee CEO appears to have found a way around the legal minefield …
Read More »GarageBand.com Sets Them Free
GarageBand.com is offering the Creative Commons Music Sharing License to artists who want to share their music via the site for free: The license allows fans to legally download, copy and share the song as many times as they want, as long as they don’t sell or alter it. For …
Read More »Chuck D and Hank Shocklee of Public Enemy on how making rap music has changed
Sampling when the sampling was good.
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