Interesting article right HERE from businessinsider.com.
It talks about using a digital distribution service called TuneCore to place your music on iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, etc. TuneCore charges a one-time distribution fee of ~$10 per single and $40 per album, but after that, you get 100% of the royalties your music makes. Except of course the 30% [...]
Category Archives: legal
How Indie Artists Can Make Boo Koo Bucks on iTunes
Danger Mouse v. EMI: A Legal Battle Won
via Gizmodo (READ FULL):
“Danger Mouse, the amazing mashup artist, producer, and half of Gnarls Barkley, is unable to release his newest album due to legal battles with his label, so he’s embracing piracy to get his music heard.
After “legal battles,” Danger Mouse’s new album has been shelved by his label, EMI. But fearful that his [...]
First Movie Ever Made Now on YouTube
Thomas Edison – “Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze”
It comes from the Library of Congress’s YouTube Channel. Unfortunately, the Library of Congress is being really protective of this content, disallowing commentary and assuring quick takedowns of re-posts. Anyway, you can see it HERE.
Read this WIRED ARTICLE about it too…
Kanye West’s Role on The Cleveland Show
Kanye West will continue his foray into new media projects by doing the voice-over for an animated character on “The Cleveland Show,” which is a spin-off of the Cleveland Brown character in the popular FOX series “Family Guy.”
West’s character, Kenny West, will be a rapper on the show. I’ve heard that the Brown’s neighbors will [...]
Darknets: The Black Market of P2P
So this is kind of a big deal – the new version of the ever-so-popular P2P client Limewire (5.1.1) comes with a feature that makes it simple for users to set up private share networks, a.k.a. “darknets.” Bad news for copyright infringement investigators, who rely on the publicity of P2P networks for nabbing [...]
Interesting Ars Technica Article on Fair Use
It looks like YouTube has a three strike policy for uploaders who attract DMCA takedown notices. Film critic Kevin Lee used his YouTube channel to make critical comments on films in the form of video essays. Of course, one would think that this kind of expression would be protected by the “fair use” section of [...]
Good Look: Seeqpod (a DMCA pioneer)
Seeqpod is a “playable search engine” that uses “a powerful, proven algorithm [to find] the hidden relationships between topics, not unlike the way the human mind makes relevant, useful associations…. [The] technology mines the deepest crevices of the Web to return extremely relevant results.”
The technology is also illegal, according to Warner Music Group. Check this [...]
Viral Video -> Taco Bell Ad -> 50 Cent Lawsuit?
It appears this first video was originally posted on eBaum’s World, but since being posted on YouTube back in December of 2006, it’s been viewed over 4.3 million times…
…which makes me wonder if somebody over at Taco Bell was one of those 4.3 million plus, and if the creators of the “McDonald’s Rap” video have [...]
