CRIA, Why Canada Can’t Have Nice Things Like Pandora
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 ...
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In Response to Graham Henderson of CRIA
Graham of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) recently went to Washington to speak about Canadian copyright laws. He had one particular comment that is worth responding to.
The story ...
Exclusive: Creative Commons Monitoring Czech Copyright Developments
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 ...
RIAA Record Label Founder Says Internet Not Music’s Enemy
Just shortly after Stevie Nicks said that the Internet has destroyed rock, the founder of Elektra Records, an RIAA record label according to RIAA Radar, says that music ...
Czech Gov’t Drafting Copyright Bill to Legally Gut Creative Commons, Chop Creators Royalties By Nearly Half
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 Movement Gathers Momentum In Germany
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 ...
ASCAP Continues Its War on Free Culture
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 ...
Guns N Roses Leaker Escapes Appearance in Anti-Piracy PSA
After over a year of the Guns N Roses leak of several tracks from the then forthcoming album Chinese Democracy, the story of the person that leaked the tracks might ...
Swedish Copyright Collective – Technology Is Killing the Blank Disc Star
When was the last time you burned a CD or a DVD? If you haven't done that in a while, you aren't alone according to a copyright collective that ...
Pink Floyd Band Manager: Attempts to Stop People From Copying a “Waste of Time”
There's been no shortage of opinions on the issue of downloading music. From average citizens to activists to labels to mainstream to small time artists, just everyone affected by ...
New Band Signs on to Major Record Label – Where Does All the Money Go?
If you've been around the copyright debate for a while, chances are, you've heard the labels in the debate argue over and over that the artists deserve to be paid. ...
ZeroPaid Interviews a Music Marketer
The ASCAP and NMPA story has generated quite a lot of attention and feedback here at ZeroPaid and one music marketer has decided to have a discussion with ZeroPaid about ...
EFF Comments on the ASCAP Letter
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 ...
Creative Commons Responds to ASCAP
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 ...
ASCAP Declares War on Free Culture
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 ...
A Response to MP James Moore’s Attack on ZeroPaid and Other Copyright Observers
We have been looking at copyright reform to great detail for some time now. It has come to our attention that James Moore, one of the ministers in charge ...
A Detailed Look at Bill C-32 – Canada’s Copyright Reform Bill (Part 2)
Yesterday, we went through the first page of Canada's latest copyright reform bill (Bill C-32). It's a lengthy piece of legislation that requires multiple articles simply due to its ...
A Detailed Look at Bill C-32 – Canada’s Copyright Reform Bill (Part 1)
We've been hearing lots about Canada's new copyright reform bill (Bill C-32) and it's already caused quite a stir. Since it is so new, very few people have had ...
RIAA Gains Support for Radio Tax
During an event on Capitol Hill, the AFL-CIO hailed the radio tax as fair pay for a hard days work.
The event also drew interest from politicians at the ...
Music Industry Study Claims Warning Letters Decrease Filesharing
There's a German study that was released that suggests that file-sharing is dropping thanks to the warning letters being sent to users.
A study by the music industry claims ...
