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Beyondthecommons
Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
http://www.beyondthecommons.com/
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Boycott-Riaa.com
Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
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Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet
The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm
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Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm
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Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War
Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html
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Downhill Battle
Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
http://www.downhillbattle.org/
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File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales
Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html
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Free Music
Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html
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Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album
Site organizing and then reporting on the results of the 24 February, 2004 protest against actions censoring the Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse.
http://www.greytuesday.org/
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Mass Mic
Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and contact information.
http://www.massmic.com/
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NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute
DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI - the label controlling Beatles music - took legal action, and Web sites recently mounted a protest. Joel Rose reports. [7:42 streaming audio broadcast]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774
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Piracy is Your Friend
A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html
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Policing Pirates in the Networked Age
A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html
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The Droplift Project
Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
http://www.droplift.org
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The Problem With Music
Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
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We Hate the RIAA
Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/
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