Articles in the Music Category
Music, Web 2.0 »
A few months ago I contributed to a news article about businesses increasingly participating in social media platforms for marketing and management of customer relations.
Seems the recording industry behemoth Universal Music Group was listening, as they’ve recently joined the multimedia blogging platform Tumblr. Problem is, they don’t seem to know what they’re doing (and are still in the process of hiring someone to “Participate in online social networking environments and develop viral marketing campaigns”).
Countless users are cringing at the notion that UMG is now participating in this social environment and …
China, Google, Intellectual Property, Music »
News reports indicate that Google will begin providing free music downloads in China.
Apparently Chinese Internet users have grown so accustomed to downloading music online, that piracy and illegal downloading has impacted music sales there more than even what the RIAA claims to be such a huge problem here in the U.S. Relatedly, Google has been struggling to take market share away from Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine.
The win-win solution seems to be for the music companies to join forces with Google to create a free music download option for …
Copyright, Fair use, Intellectual Property, Music »
Just in time for the sections on intellectual property and fair use in my “Information Technology Ethics” class, the Israeli artist Kutiman released a brilliant collection of YouTube video mashups called “Thru You” (his site has been down due to traffic, but the mashups are also available here and here).
Kutiman has taken existing YouTube videos of people playing music alone, sampled, looped, mixed and mashed them together to make absolutely amazing new music. Here’s a sample:
These songs are genius. They are original. Yet, most interpretations of existing copyright laws would …
