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Music-Future

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. Visit Website ]
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. Visit Website ]
Sep 26, 2002, 08:38

Music-Online
Fans are starting to gravitate to paid online music services?
The New York Times' Neil Strauss surveyed some former die-hard file-swapping fans who now say they are becoming grudgingly happy with paid online music services back by labels. Why? Selection and ease of use has come within the range of what they consider reasonable for $10 or so a month. (Registration Required to view site) Visit Website ]
Sep 25, 2002, 08:56

Music-Online
KaZaa now lets consumers filter out bogus files
File-swapping service Kazaa's new software allows people to rate files so that corrupt or false files will quickly collect ratings poor enough to warn people away from downloading them. That's just one of the features the company unveiled this week that is likely to annoy record labels, according to CNET New's John Borland. Visit Website ]
Sep 22, 2002, 08:50

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. Visit Website ]
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. Visit Website ]
Sep 5, 2002, 02:21

Music-Online
Jupiter study says royalties may webcasting music a money-looser
Lisa Bowman of CNET News writes that Jupiter Research said royalty fees could bankrupt Web radio stations by forcing them to pay more to play songs than they could ever make up in advertising revenue--a prediction that's already come true for dozens of stations that have ceased their Webcasts because of the payments.
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Sep 5, 2002, 01:58

Music-Online
Napster shuts down after Bertelsmann bailout denied
Napster Inc. officially shut down last night after a bankruptcy judge blocked the sale of the company that revolutionized music-swapping to Bertelsmann AG. See a The Washington Post story. The Boston Globe's D.C. Dennison also has the story. Visit Website ]
Sep 4, 2002, 12:26

Music-Online
Pent up consumer demand awaits reasonably priced online music?
Although estimates are that fewer than 100,000 people have joined legal music-download services, write Simon Avery quotes experts as saying there is huge pent-up demand for simple, reasonably priced Internet music services. How about typing in "dinner music" and getting personalized selections, the BizReport.COM writer suggests? Visit Website ]
Sep 3, 2002, 02:17


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AUDIO: Media literacy hits the real world -- lessons from Boston English
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ETHICS: Cleveland editor draws line at blogger contributing to congressman's opponent
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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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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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AUDIO: Crowdsourcing in Orange County: the the audience steps in
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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
A-Multimedia & Video Innovation
Atom Films seeding video downloading market by offering to pay for short film production
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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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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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
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
Cable Local Access (PEG)
The People v. Television: How Comcast is using cable to strangle democracy
Community wireless
RESOURCES: Washington attorney (Jim Baller) provides comprehensive email, links on community wireless issues
Wi-Fi should be free
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
Entertainment Industry
Studios scramble to prevent Net piracy
Copy, right?
Internet-Advertising
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About face
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
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
Music-Future
KMPG study says piracy can be turned to labels' advantage
Artists, labels finally start teaching about "stealing"
Online News Services
Times to Offer Readers a View of Stories by Competing Papers
'New News' retrospective: Is online news reaching its potential?
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
Research / Demographics
Trade group says newspaper circulation is rising worldwide
Univ. of Wisconsin study find election coverage almost non-existent in Midwest TV markets
Resources
Briggs' downloadable book is survival guide to multimedia journalism
Website lists links to Allied Media Conference attendees -- mostly progressive, grassroots organizations
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