Limited Edition Vinyl
A limited edition signed/numbered hand-cut acetate vinyl, certificate of registration included. A collector’s item only, not suitable for repeated play. These are unmastered demo singles of the forthcoming (Nov 2019) release, “Musical Chairs: A Comparsa For Artist Rights.” A hand-drawn chair illustration by Michelle Shocked, on quality vellum, is included on the label.
Ten titles are available, in a limited supply of 100 each, for a production total of 1000. Each title is available for $100. Hey! This ain’t no charity!
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Music Tech Policy
- Loophole Competition: Is Google’s News’ Richard Gingras the Counterpart of YouTube’s Lyor Cohen? via ArtistRightsWatch October 14, 2019We’re all well aware of how Google uses self-manufactured loopholes in the DMCA safe harbor to enrich itself at the expense of artists, and run their loophole traps while appearing to “help” artists deal with the Google manufactured whackamole on YouTube with “tools” like Content ID. (See Ellen Seidler’s teaching on this subject, Kerry Muzzey’s […]Editor Charlie
Illusion of More
- Google-Funded Groups Determined to Sink the CASE Act October 10, 2019A recent anti-CASE Act post by Daniel Takash of the Niskanen Center once again demonstrates why the tentacles of Google-funded “think tanks,” are the informational […]David Newhoff
The Trichordist
- Guest Post by @cagoldberglaw: Scared as Hell: Section 230 Denies Access to Justice, Not Free Speech Protection via @musictechpolicy October 8, 2019By Carrie A. Goldberg [Chris Castle editor’s note: We should all be aware that in addition to the “value gap” of the DMCA safe harbor, Big Tech also has another safe harbor in Section 230 which I call the “values gap.” You have to ask yourself, how do they sleep at night? We are honored […]thetrichordist
Music First Coalition
- LRFA Translator: Revealing the Truth Behind NAB Speak August 12, 2019As with many things put out by the NAB, their claims fail to hold up under further scrutiny. In order to better make sense of their video, we ran the NAB’s misleading talking points through a translator to reveal the truth about what LRFA actually does. The post LRFA Translator: Revealing the Truth Behind NAB […]Chris Billeter
Michelle Shocked Blog
- Ready to Rumba? March 7, 2019“In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle,” Ides say March is a splendid month to sally forth, wouldn’t you? Two weeks from now, March 17, by invitation only, I’ll be warming up … Continue reading →Michelle Shocked
Content Creators Coalition
Music Worker
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Copyright Alliance
- What Happens to Your Copyrights After You Die? October 15, 2019It’s not exactly fun to think about, but death is something that everyone will have to face eventually. And when creators spend their lives putting their blood, sweat, and tears into their passion, it makes sense that they’d want to protect their copyright post-mortem. Although it’s a popular misconception, copyrighted works do not become public […]Jay Cleofe
Neil Turkewitz
In Defense of Unfair Competition: A Skewed Tale of Sorrow & Mischief
by Neil Turkewitz
Okay, so I just finished reading “Unfair Disruption” by Mark A. Lemley and Mark P. McKenna. Wait, that’s not really accurate. I confess to finding it unreadable, by which I do not mean illegible. The type face was fine. The content itself — arguing that copyright owners are fundamentally allergic to technology and predisposed to reject “innovation” in favor of maintaining an antiquated status quo, was badly in need of some disruption. Read more
Vox Indie
- U.S. companies help piracy websites evade the law August 3, 2019U.S. based companies assist pirate websites by providing cover for their illegal piracy business while pocketing their own dirty money in the process. The post U.S. companies help piracy websites evade the law appeared first on Vox Indie.Ellen Seidler
T Bone Burnett
- The Invisible Light Acoustic Space: Instrumentals October 4, 2019Instrumentals are now available for T. Bone Burnett’s “The Invisible Light Acoustic Space” Take a listen here…admin
Surveillance Valley
Facebook as an American geopolitical weapon
by Yasha Levine
When Facebook unilaterally censored Maffick simply because the social media-geared company is backed by Russia’s RT, I saw it as just another example how closely and openly Facebook has been integrated into America’s corporate-national-security apparatus. Read more