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Lawrence Lessig’s new book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is getting quite a bit of attention. We discussed it here yesterday, where you can also hear the entire book for free. Salon’s Farhad Manjoo takes a long look …

Lawrence Lessig’s new book is out, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The site for the book describes it thusly: Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus …

This letter was addressed to former MP3.com (which doesn’t exist anymore) artists: We have good news! We’ve just launched the Download.com Music Artist Beta, and you are invited to come upload your music now. We’ve been working ’round the clock in an effort to help you get your music back …

American indies are gathering together: Independent record labels in the U.S. are drawing up plans for a new trade association to handle copyright negotiations and distribution deals for the music industry. The association is expected to link several hundred record labels, with details due to be hammered out at meetings …

RIAA apoplectic, threatens to sue the paper the report is printed on.

What a great and obvious idea! Of course all great ideas look obvious in retrospect. We mentioned this concept last July, but it has really taken off since: About 16 months ago, Mr. Arnold, a co-founder and former chief executive of the WebMD Corporation, was visiting Los Angeles when a …

The Chicago Tribune interviews leading copyright liberalization advocate Lawrence Lessig and Ken Waagner, who runs Wilco’s Internet operations: Have you both heard “The Grey Album”? What do you think of it? Ken Waagner: I think it’s interesting. I don’t think it’s an amazing album, but I think the concept is …

In the wake of Grey Tuesday, BannedMusic.org: Downhill Battle, the group behind the landmark “Grey Tuesday” online protest has created BannedMusic.org, a virtual record label for sample-based music that the major record labels try to suppress. BannedMusic.org, which launches today, features a new, one-click system for p2p downloads and “The …

And so it goes, so it goes, so it goes: The recording industry sued 532 people Tuesday, including scores of individuals using computer networks at 21 universities, claiming they were illegally sharing digital music files over the Internet. The latest wave of copyright lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association …

Sony and McDonald’s pair up for a new music download campaign: Hungry for a taste of the online music business, Sony Corp. is aiming to line up McDonald’s Corp. to market the Japanese conglomerate’s new download service, according to people familiar with the deal. The two companies have been hammering …