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Online sharing & "piracy"
Online sharing & "piracy"
KMPG study says piracy can be turned to labels' advantage
Directors of the companies which own the major record labels aren't doing their job unless they insist management comes up with new business models to overcome Internet file-swapping "piracy," according to a KMPG study. Trying to invoke encryption to stop illegal downloads won't work, the study adds. Reuters reports via CNET News.
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Sep 26, 2002, 08:45
Online sharing & "piracy"
Artists, labels finally start teaching about "stealing"
Using the voices and words of superstar musicians, the recording industry is finally taking the advice of many of its critics on one point -- it is launching a multi-million dollar advertising campaign to teach teen-age music consumers and others that downloading unauthorized MP3 files violates copyright laws. CNet News' Lisa Bowman has the story.
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Sep 26, 2002, 08:38
Online sharing & "piracy"
Sony Music literally use glue to keep reviewers from ripping CDs
The New York Times (registration required), documents a case in which Sony Music's Epic Records unit has gone to he trouble of actually gluing shut a CD player and permanently affixing headphones to it so that record reviewers to whom hit sent a pre-release won't rip the songs onto MP3s.
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Sep 16, 2002, 11:50
Online sharing & "piracy"
Verizon resists labels' effort to pry name of "illegal" file swapper
Verizon is challenging the record industry, saying it won't reveal the name of a Verizon DSL Internet customer who is alleged to be a major illegal music file-sharer.
Sep 5, 2002, 14:40
Online sharing & "piracy"
Chicago federal judge rules Aimster file-sharer is illegal
U.S. District Judge Marvin Aspen describes Aimster as "a service whose very raison d'etre appears to be the facilitation of and contribution to copyright infringement on a massive scale," according to a recording-industry report on the judge's ruling.
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Sep 5, 2002, 02:21
Online sharing & "piracy"
Record labels drop suit against Chinese pirate site
The five major record labels, continuing their aggressive legal stance against online file sharing, initially sued four major U.S. Internet service providers, asking them to block domain-level access to a Chinese music-piracy website. But then they dropped their suits after the website went dark. The AP's Anick Jesdanun has the story.
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Aug 23, 2002, 14:34
Online sharing & "piracy"
Report: AOL inadvertently stores pirated music on its servers
Reporter Jon Healey of The Los Angeles Times reports on how the online service AOL has been unwittingly duped by two MP3 file-sharing services into storing allegedly pirated music files on AOL servers. (Article may require registration to view)
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Jul 31, 2002, 10:38
Online sharing & "piracy"
Newest label ploy: Get Congress to make it legal to damage your PC for file sharing
As expected, California Sen. Howard Berman, who receives campaign contributions from Disney and AOL Time Warner and represents Burbank, where Disney is based, introduced on Thursday (July 25) legislation designed to permit labels to sabotage file sharing. Experts said its language would permit intrusions into a consumer's audio and video files and attacks that would knock a computer off-line. Peter Jaszi, a professor of copyright law at Washington, D.C.'s American University, told Billboard Bulleting the bill is "violently anti-consumer."
Jul 27, 2002, 09:22
Online sharing & "piracy"
Biden, Hatch seek to exempt ISPs from piracy liability
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. told Congressional Quarterly that he is working on a bipartisan amendment to S.B. 2395 with Sen. Orrin G. Hatch that would prevent Internet service providers such as America Online from being held responsible for transmitting illegal copies of hit songs on the Internet.
Jul 18, 2002, 07:23
Online sharing & "piracy"
Confessions of a music pirate: It benefits the artist
How do you justify downloading MP3 files without paying for them? Los Angeles-based music writer Mike Prevatt has writtten a defense of the practice in the Las Vegas, Nev., alternative weekly, CityLife. Prevatt gives concrete examples of the way file sharing is working to the commercial advantage of musicians and, as he says, "changing the music experience forever."
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Jul 11, 2002, 07:02
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| A-About MGP |
| TEAM: Who is the Media Giraffe Project? |
| ABOUT US: Website, book, film spotlight "above the crowd" individuals fostering democracy, community in media |
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| A-CONFERENCE |
| MGP teams with Yahoo for April 30-May 3 convening of journalists and technologists |
| CONFERENCE: What will happen when only journalism is left? Aug. 7-8, Washington, D.C. |
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| A-AUDIO/VIDEO resources |
| AUDIO/VIDEO: Multimedia learning resources from The Media Giraffe Project |
| Purchase DVDs from MGP and JTM events |
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| A-Blogs |
| MGP2006 alum offered blogger seat in Libby trial courtroom -- seeks advice; AP is carrying coverage |
| NYU students and Jay Rosen judge "best blogs" among U.S. newspapers over 100,000 circulation |
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| A-Business Models |
| Institution vs. infrastructure: The question of ProPublica and reaching to the local level, too |
| Knight Foundation unveils $5-million effort to seed innovation in web-based local news; may invest in for-profit ventures |
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| A-Citizen journalism |
| LIST: New resources chart growing number of local online journalism efforts |
| McGill offers seven points of advice about citizen journalism |
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| A-Democracy Futures |
| Dump old consultants, embrace "netroots," say Armstrong/Zuniga in "Crashing the Gate" book |
| POLICY: Annenberg study finds public's use of Internet for politics surges |
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| A-Education & Training |
| AUDIO: Media literacy hits the real world -- lessons from Boston English |
| Despite federal law, most students unaware today is "Constitution Day"; resources |
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| A-Ethics and Standards |
| ETHICS: Cleveland editor draws line at blogger contributing to congressman's opponent |
| Independent news website NewsDesk posts statement of journalistic principals from editor/owner Josh Wilson |
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| A-First Amendment / Free Speech / Press |
| Temple's Renee Hobbs developing handbook on copyright fair use |
| Conyers, Hall ask Bush administration to withdraw Balco subpoenas of Chronicle reporters |
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| A-Giraffes at Work? |
| VillageSoup.com acquires competing weekly newspapers in vindication of online model (with AUDIO) |
| Daily Kos founder critical of media in appearance at law-school alma mater |
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| A-Ideas-Trends-Innovation |
| AUDIO: Crowdsourcing in Orange County: the the audience steps in |
| MIT gathering considers: Can participatory media seed participatory democracy? |
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| A-Journalism Futures |
| Four views on journalism's future -- from outside the United States |
| Duke hosts "next newsroom" gathering for 60 |
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| A-KEY ESSAYS |
| Oreskes urges journalists not to commit professional suicide out of fear of dying |
| ESSAY: "Fortune" editor nails dilemma for media: Will the public pay for what's good for it? |
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| A-KEY QUOTATIONS |
| Clark: Time for new "stewardship" in newspaper executive ranks? |
| QUOTE: James Carroll on a free press and the communal self-awareness that makes democracy work |
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| A-Multimedia & Video Innovation |
| Atom Films seeding video downloading market by offering to pay for short film production |
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| A-Ownership, governance & management |
| A new idea for newspaper ownership -- tap the reader co-op |
| FCC's alleged quashing of 2004 draft study which boosted local-TV ownership criticized by Sen. Boxer and media activists |
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| A-Podcasting & Audio |
| Some 80% of students have device capable of playing downloaded audio files |
| AUDIO: Four editors discuss future of newspapers; danger of controlling pipes and content |
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| A-VERBATIM-Interview Q&As |
| Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman on self-censorship, raising questions, and who is really 'advocacy journalism'? |
| Founders of a Vermont community/news website explain how it works and why they set it up |
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| Broadcasting/ Low Power FM |
| Regional radio content-sharing network under development for Pacific Northwest, Lawson says |
| Legal wrangling continues over whether Radio Free Brattleboro (Vt.) will return to the air |
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| Cable Local Access (PEG) |
| The People v. Television: How Comcast is using cable to strangle democracy |
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| Community wireless |
| RESOURCES: Washington attorney (Jim Baller) provides comprehensive email, links on community wireless issues |
| Wi-Fi should be free |
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| Conferences / Events |
| Networked Journalism Summit underway in NYC -- about 200 attendees |
| CONFERENCE: "The New(s) England Revolution" on April 7 at UMass Lowell kicks off launch of N.E. News Forum |
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| Entertainment Industry |
| Studios scramble to prevent Net piracy |
| Copy, right? |
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| Internet-Advertising |
| The chaos scenario |
| About face |
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| Internet-Privacy-Online |
| Google resists government subpoena for search data, but Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft comply |
| EU to survey citizens on data privacy with website form |
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| Internet-Technology |
| Labels appear faint-hearted on CD copy-protection in U.S. market |
| Both webcasters and label look to court to settle royalty fees |
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| Music-Future |
| KMPG study says piracy can be turned to labels' advantage |
| Artists, labels finally start teaching about "stealing" |
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| Online News Services |
| Times to Offer Readers a View of Stories by Competing Papers |
| 'New News' retrospective: Is online news reaching its potential? |
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| Regulation: FCC and the courts |
| Even Al Gore can't get programs on cable giant's network, claims the Center for Creative Voices |
| Imminent replacements at FCC could impact television content, "pro-family" leaders say |
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| Research / Demographics |
| Trade group says newspaper circulation is rising worldwide |
| Univ. of Wisconsin study find election coverage almost non-existent in Midwest TV markets |
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| Resources |
| Briggs' downloadable book is survival guide to multimedia journalism |
| Website lists links to Allied Media Conference attendees -- mostly progressive, grassroots organizations |
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| Trackbacks/MGP in the news |
| AP reporter cites MGP's Densmore in story about local online news sites in New Haven, San Diego |
| Nigel Beale links to MGP interview with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive project |
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