We have not reported on the latest ASCAP scam, their money raising campaign for the “Legislative Fund for the Arts”. An email to their members, exposed here (page 1, page 2) is full of factual errors (again), claiming that copyleft licenses ‘undermine our Copyright”‘ — and they call their members to arms to ‘wage […]

With a little bit of schadenfreude we report, that the RIAA once again missed its business goals by a factor of 10, when Joel Tenenbaum was ordered to pay some $67k instead of $670k — similarly to Jamie Thomas (down to from $2m to $54k). That’s why the business model does not look so promising […]

Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” — at least that’s his self-branding on his website at http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/about/. Now let’s for a moment assume that is true and he’s telling the truth on his blog anyway. Then there is a funny story: he found […]

“Weaker copyright leads to more artistic production.” This is in shorthand the findings of Felix Oberholzer‐Gee from Harvard University and Koleman Strumpf from the University of Kansas in their most recent paper on “File Sharing and Copyright” (Chicago Journal on Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol. 10, Nr. 1, pp. 19–55):
Since the advent of file […]