Science and Technology

Please see guest blogger John Parres’ take on Madonna’s genius viral marketing move – the remixes containing the Profane Matron’s utterance of warning continue to proliferate here. Check them out – contribute your own. All the attention seems to be selling old-fashioned CDs: her American Life album just jumped from …

The Apple “surprise announcement” coming Monday, the 28th, isn’t much of a surprise anymore: High-quality design and simplicity of use are expected to be the hallmarks of the new digital music service from Apple Computer ….Label sources tell Bulletin that the service is an a la carte download store — …

This just in: In a case that could turn the tide on online piracy, a Los Angeles judge ruled Friday in favor of online file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus, saying the two companies are not liable for online piracy by users of their service. The follow-on services to Napster — …

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The innovative Creative Commons is taking their flexible copyright to the world: A customisable form of copyright license will soon be available internationally through the Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation based in the US. The organisation already offers US artists a way build their own copyright agreement. Each custom-made license …

Being that I’m all cool and whatnot, I have been asked to help judge the Song Remix category of the Webgeek Olympics: What: You remix a song. When: The song in question will be posted on this page at 8:00 AM GMT, Saturday May 10 2003. How: Ping the “EventGo” …

Another incisive commentary from Dave Pell, this one on the grim state of Democratic thinking, and he’s a Democrat: The tsunami from the right has been so complete in recent years that it almost seems as if they are operating in a vacuum. Politically, the Republicans have control of the …

Ongoing Verizon-RIAA dispute – U.S. District Court Judge John Bates said Verizon must reveal the names of the two alleged copyright infringers within two weeks: Bates originally ordered Verizon to reveal the customers’ names in January, but Verizon had argued that their identities should be protected as it pursues an …

The Dixie Chicks seem to be weathering the negative publicity from their anti-Bush/war statements rather well. Maybe we’ve entered a new era of show biz negative advertising campaigns, as I mentioned earlier today in relationship to Madonna. They’ve done wonders for us here, too, that’s for sure (see below). The …

I am root root rooting for 321 Studios in their court challenge to the Hollywood studios over its DVD-copying technology. As we have said here ad nauseum, all citizens have a right to make a back up copy of their own DVDs and music CDs. The DMCA denies citizens this …