Country's Socialist Party plans to introduce proposal that would make artist compensation an "inalienable and non-renunciable" right.
Portugal's Socialist Party appears to be on the verge of introducing legislation that ...
If you ever wanted the real story on why innovative music services cannot exist in Canada, you couldn't ask for a more modern story then Pandora's relationship with Canada.
Pandora is ...
Last Thursday, we broke the story that the Czech government was drafting a copyright bill that would legally gut the usability of Creative Commons. Since then, we've ...
If you ever thought that no one would ever actually legally attack Creative Commons and, if they did, you'd hear about it, consider this the article you "hear about it". ...
Open licensed music isn't entirely new. Artists seeing the pitfalls of copyright isn't entirely new either. But what is interesting is to see a German music outlet distribute ...
Last month, ASCAP issued a letter hoping to collect donations to fight the copyleft movement. After severe backlash both externally and internally for saying that organizations like ...
The now infamous ASCAP letter, where ASCAP attacked Creative Commons, EFF and Public Knowledge allegedly for undermining their copyright, has generated no shortage of controversy. Was it ...
We've been following the story of the ASCAP letter for a while and getting reaction from groups mentioned. Today, we've received comments from Public Knowledge.
Last week, ASCAP ...
Ever since the story broke that ASCAP was accusing organizations like Creative Commons, EFF and Public Knowledge, of undermining copyright, it set off a firestorm both in creative ...
Yesterday, we reported that ASCAP said that organizations like Creative Commons were undermining their copyrights. Today, we've received an official response from Creative Commons with regards to ...
The free culture movement is abuzz today over news that ASCAP has requested their members to fight organizations like Creative Commons, Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation over what ...
The open content community has been very upbeat recently - and it's no surprise since they won what they say is a major legal victory.
At times, the file-sharing revolution seems ...
