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krj
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The Seventh Napster Item
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Sep 25 17:19 UTC 2001 |
Continuing the weblog, with occasional discussion, about news relating to
the deconstruction of the music business: with side forays, to
steal polygon's description, into "intellectual property, freedom
of expression, electronic media, corporate control, and
evolving technology."
This item is linked between the Fall Agora conference and the
Music conference.
If you want to read lots and lots and lots of historical overview,
previous items in this series can be found in the archive
conference music2:
item:music2,240
item:music2,279
item:music2,280
item:music2,294
item:music2,304
item:music2,315
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krj
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response 1 of 87:
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Sep 25 17:27 UTC 2001 |
We start off the Fall version with Authentic Napster News:
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,47075,00.html
Napster has settled with the music publishers -- $26 million for
past infringements and $10 million for future licensed use.
> "Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
> oversaw negotiations that paved the way for a settlement between
> Napster and the music publishers.
> The landmark deal -- which is expected to be certified
> within the next 60 days by District Court Judge Marilyn
> Hall Patel -- settles a major part of litigation brought by
> the music industry that forced the company to shutter
> its file-trading service in July.
> The new agreement would give Napster access to
> 700,000 songs from major label artists like Madonna,
> Santana and Britney Spears, although the company
> must still reach a settlement with the five major music
> labels.
> Still, the agreement does lay the groundwork for future
> business deals.
The article expresses concern that this is a lot of money for
Napster to pay, given that it has no income.
Remember that there are two copyrights involved in every sound
recording, one for the songwriting and one for the performance,
and those two are generally held by different businesses.
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krj
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response 2 of 87:
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Sep 26 22:35 UTC 2001 |
Widely reported: Vivendi Universal will start using an unspecified
copy-prevention system on its CDs beginning in about a month.
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mcnally
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response 3 of 87:
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Sep 27 04:45 UTC 2001 |
.. and apparently plans to use it on *all* Universal releases by
1Q 2002..
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krj
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response 4 of 87:
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Sep 27 17:14 UTC 2001 |
Music publishers were suing Vivendi Universal for its farmclub.com
operation. Universal claimed that the licenses it held for selling
copyrighted music on CDs were sufficiently elastic to cover downloads
through farmclub.com, but a federal court in New York has sided
with the music publishers, ruling that downloading is a new business
activity not included in the existing licenses.
"It was unclear what damages Universal could face as a result of
Wednesday's ruling."
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7312624.html?tag=lh
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Another Cnet story reports that MusicNet, the online music selling venture
of RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, EMI, BMG and Zomba, has delivered its
software platform to its partners and so its launch should be imminent.
The story goes on to discuss how unappealing MusicNet is going to be,
and even the firms involved don't expect many users.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7314600.html?tag=lh
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krj
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response 5 of 87:
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Oct 1 02:05 UTC 2001 |
Yet another Cnet story on a plan to throttle the ripping of CDs:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-7320279-0.html?tag=tp_pr
quote:
> The record industry is experimenting with a new strategy
> for protecting CDs from being
> copied in CD burners or on computers. Unlike
> previous anti-copying measures, this plan
> will place two versions of an album on a single disc: one
> in standard CD form, modified so that it can't be
> transferred to a computer hard drive, and another in
> Microsoft's Windows Media Audio digital format, rigged so
> that files can be copied to a PC, but with some
> restrictions on how they can be used.
Anybody heard of any consumers eager to collect Windows Media files? :)
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apswartz
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response 6 of 87:
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Oct 1 04:09 UTC 2001 |
I don't know. I suppose as long as you can plug a cd player into your sound
card you will be able to create mp3's -- it will just take a little more work.
Eventually the software will be there to make it easier.
I believe it was Esther Dyson (among others) who said that corporations will
have to rethink the who notion of property in such a technological age where
information is reduced to bytes.
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