Tired of students and grandmothers, the RIAA now going after radio
“They’ve gotten 50-some years of free play, now maybe it’s time to pay up.”
No doubt looking for any way it can shore up decreasing revenue amid slumping CD sales, the RIAA and several artists’ groups are nor going after radio broadcasters to collect additional royalties from aired music.
“The creation of music is [...]
Why Last.fm isn’t sweating the RIAA’s royalty hike
Last_fm, the popular custom radio and music network, will press on with expansion plans, despite the threat to internet radio from the record industry lobbyists in the US.
A battle is currently being fought Stateside over how much royalty should be paid for streaming radio. Until the tail end of last week, the future of online [...]
The RIAA’s worst nightmare: computers that understand music
Computers and music have been linked since the earliest days of the mainframe, when giant machines controlled primitive synthesizers. Recently, however, a significant advancement has taken place in the field of computer music with the development of software that can not only transcribe polyphonic music in real time, but can also play back complex harmonies [...]
Ohio University bans P2P
In an open letter to students, the university announces that it will now restrict the use of all “P2P, or file-sharing on the campus computer network”.
Ohio University has currently received the most complaints from the RIAA regarding illegal music downloading to date, having received some 1,287 notices since last September, and averaging 10-15 new ones [...]
Is the RIAA Pulling a Scam on the Music Industry?
There has been an understandable public outcry against the RIAA’s attempts to more than triple the sound recording copyright royalties on Internet radio. (See Save Internet Radio from Corporate Money Grab) One solution proposed by Webcasters is to just not play RIAA-member songs under the assumption that then they don’t have to pay the royalty [...]
NCSU Legal Services Director Helps Students Fight the RIAA
Cites illegal tactics and arbitrary settlement demands as some of the flaws in the RIAA’s lawsuit strategy.
Pam Gerace, the director of Student Legal Services at North Carolina State University, is helping students take on the RIAA and fight back in a struggle with which they would otherwise have few resources at their disposal.
Unlike the [...]
‘Suggestions to College Students Being Targeted by the RIAA’
Recording Industry vs the People have posted some great tips for those college students that have been targeted by the RIAA in their campus file-sharing crackdown.
Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry vs the People are New York City-based lawyers who through the Electronic Frontier Foundation have undertaken to represent people in their [...]
Why doesn’t the RIAA talk about the $9 billion USD in ringtone sales?
For all the whining about P2P and file-sharing services, a detail that seems hidden in all the fuss over declining music sales by the RIAA and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), is the fact that people bought over $9 billion USD worth of ringtones worldwide last year. That’s right, $9 billion USD! [...]
Why doesn’t the RIAA talk about the $9 billion USD in ringtone sales?
A detail that seems hidden in all the fuss over declining music sales by the RIAA and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), is the fact that people bought over $9 billion USD worth of ringtones worldwide last year. That’s right, $9 billion USD! This is about a 41% increase over last year [...]
RIAA College Crackdown Round 3
The RIAA announced yesterday that it had sent a third wave of 413 pre-litigation settlement letters to 22 universities across the country.
A new wave of the RIAA’s "deterrence program" has begun, with the lobbying group claiming that it has caught students for "illegal file-trafficking" at 22 different college campuses. That’s right, I said "file-trafficking." [...]
