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Per Technology Review, new software that may solve webcasting documentation issues: For webcasters, making sure that musicians receive royalties when their songs are played over the Internet is a tedious, paperwork-intensive business. Now Websound of Brattleboro, VT, is touting software that automatically sifts through Web server logs to distinguish songs …

Mark Gauvreau Judge does not like Bruce Sprinsteen – at all. He explains why in a Wall Street Journal editorial: Back in 1984, when I was a college student, I panned the album “Born in the U.S.A.,” Bruce’s breakthrough (coming years after the early so-called triumph of “Born to Run”). …

Industry veteran and record producer manager Greg Spotts has a very cool project, called the Shortlist: The Shortlist Organization, LLC was founded in 2001 by music industry veterans Greg Spotts and Tom Sarig to create opportunities for left-of-center culture to cross over to the mainstream. The annual Shortlist Music Project …

Complex copyright law is becoming de riguer for those interested in the music biz. This ruling is great for samplers, less so for composers: [James] Newton, a professor at California State University, Los Angeles, says that if he’d been asked, he never would have granted his permission. So in 2000 …

Please see Part 1 here. EO: I just saw a thread on one of the meta-chat sites saying “Ira Robbins works for Clear Channel now” The response: “That’s okay, I love him anyway.” Any disconnect there for you that you would care to talk about? Any reward exchange issues for …

Edward Nawotka writes today in the PW Daily Newsletter: A group led by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers and the PEN American Center has sent a letter of support to House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.) and Rep. John Conyers (D., …

Today my email apparently drifted off into the ether, then a thunderstorm came through and blew up a tree right across the street and killed our electricity for a while. But, it is finally time to begin our interview with the legendary Ira Robbins. A little background: Robbins, the co-founder …

From Andrew Orlowski in London: The UK’s take on the “European DMCA” – the European Copyright Directive – will make criminals out of ordinary computer users, according to a new critique by the UK Campaign for Digital Rights. And it will also fail to protect researchers, says Julian Midgley who …

In response to our post on EMusic and Frank Black, Scott Rosenberg has some very telling thoughts that I would think the record biz would be encouraged to hear: I subscribe to EMusic’s service. I also just bought those two CDs at Amoeba here in Berkeley. Now, theoretically, I should …

A high school kid started a campaign against Soul Train’s selection of Entertainer of the Year and got some serious shit in return: California high school sophomore Rommel Zamora is learning after launching an online petition criticizing the powers that be at Soul Train for selecting Ashanti as their Lady …