Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling provides a comprehensive, interdisiplinary look at the issues at the intersection of culture, creativity, compensation and technology. Co-authored by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, with contributions by Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson, the book includes interviews with over one hundred stakeholders in the sampling culture — from samplers, to attorneys, to license clearance experts, managers and record label owners. It examines the analog history of sampling, bringing an informed economic and legal analysis of the sample license clearance process in line with how the system works. In the final chapters, the authors examine a handful of proposals that would streamline the licensing process, but each “solution” has its own costs. Is it possible for society to achieve a balance that allows creativity to flourish but also fairly compensates original creators?
Creative License will be published by Duke University Press in 2011.
Future of Music Coalition is once again curating a number of conversations at the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference in New York City, January 8-12, 2010. Join us for sessions on the issues at the intersection of arts, technology and law; media, copyright and technology; and health insurance for creators.
To attend these sessions you need to be registered for the Arts Presenters conference. Click here for registration details. If you are an artist and would like to attend these sessions only and will not go to the APAP conference, email us at nicole[at]futureofmusic[dot]org read more
January 9, 2010 - 3:00pm - January 10, 2010 - 1:00pm
New York, NY
For the fifth year in a row, FMC will be curating a number of conversations at the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference in New York City, January 8-12, 2010. Join us for sessions on the issues at the intersection of arts, technology and law; media, copyright and technology; and health insurance for creators.
To attend these sessions you need to be registered for the Arts Presenters conference. Click here for registration details. If you are an artist and would like to attend these sessions only and will not go to the APAP conference, email us at nicole [at] futureofmusic [dot] org. read more
Will MOG be the service that makes streaming subscription take off in the US market? That's the question music industry observers are asking today, as the web-based streaming/recommendation music service unveils its buzzed-about monthly streaming subscription service. One thing's for sure: you can't beat the price. MOG is charging a mere 5 bucks a month for streaming, on-demand access to a huge catalog of music, all legally licensed from record labels and publishers. MOG is also letting potential customers try the service for free, for one hour. read more
We just received word about a brand-new nonprofit organization in Canada called Clinique juridique des artistes de Montreal, or CJAM. For non French-speakers, that translates to the Montreal Artists Legal Clinic.
Read on for more info about this org and American groups that offer similar services.We just received word about a brand-new nonprofit organization in Canada called Clinique juridique des artistes de Montreal, or CJAM. For non French-speakers, that translates to the Montreal Artists Legal Clinic. read more
Proponents of the so-called “celestial jukebox” have had plenty to be excited about over the past couple of years. Online services that allow listeners to stream music “from the cloud,” coupled with broadband connections on desktops and mobile devices, have given music fans a sea of tunes to surf on-demand. read more
CNET's Greg Sandoval recently posted a fascinating interview with Eric Garland of Big Champagne -- a California-based company that collects data on filesharing and sells it to the content industry (you know, like labels and film studios). As can be imagined, a lot of what Garland tells these companies isn't perceived as good news. But Big Champagne has been at it for a decade, during which peer-to-peer filesharing went from a "hmm, maybe we should pay attention to that," to a "OMG -- where did all of our sales go?" phenomenon. read more
We did it! Another amazing Future of Music Policy Summit is behind us, but we’ll always have the memories. This year’s conference — our eighth — was probably our best yet; if you were with us at Georgetown University in DC from Oct. 4-6, you definitely know what we’re talking about. Maybe you were one of the thousands of people who watched the live webcast? Either way, we thank you so much for participating in the event. Read on for some of the highlights, as well as a few other things we’ve been working on in our “spare time.”
1. Future of Music Policy Summit 2009: awesomeness roundup!
2. FMC, PBS’ Independent Lens & Community Cinema present COPYRIGHTCRIMINALS
3. Music 2.0 and the “29 Streams”
4. Big wins for Low Power FM
5. Performance Rights Act passes in Senate Committee
6. FMC’s Michael Bracy on NPR’s “Sound Opinions”
7. Still fighting for net neutrality
8. FMC, musicians and speech
9. Travel and appearances
10. SanFran MusicTech is back!
11. How are we doing?
The FCC has yet to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) formally kicking off the process of writing and promulgating net neutrality regulations, but the battle over the scope of the new rules is already well underway within media and technology circles in Washington, D.C. At the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit on the campus of Georgetown University on Monday, for example, panelists clashed over whether the agency will or should allow, or even mandate, the use of deep packet inspection (DPI) and other invasive techniques to block the illegal transfer of copyrighted content over broadband networks.
We’re almost at
the finish line, folks.
The three-day music-tech-policy
extravaganza known
as the Future
of Music Policy Summit is
less than three weeks
away, so if you wanna
catch our greatest
conference yet, better
step lively! The Policy
Summit roster has
grown considerably
since the last newsletter,
with some really exciting
names just added.
Then there’s the rock
show, cocktail parties
and more for that
extra something-something.
But planning for Summit
isn’t the only
thing we’ve been
up to (although sometimes
it feels that way!) — read
on for more of FMC’s
recent and upcoming activities.
1. FMC Policy Summit:
why *you* need to
be there
2. "Behind the
Policy Summit" FutureBlog
series
3. FMC joins
PBS’ Independent Lens
and Community Cinema
for free documentary
4. FMC invited to
participate in FCC
Broadband Workshops
5. Musicians and Health
Insurance: North Carolina
Public Radio screenings
6. FMC at NYSARTS
Summit 2009
7. One Web
Day: what’s the "big
idea?"
8. Intern Positions
Available
9. How are we doing
