Archive for July, 2010
The Library of Congress now means something to millions of teenagers. With all the hubbub surrounding the July 26 announcement of “Rules for Exemptions Regarding Circumvention of Access-Control Technologies” to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by the Librarian of Congress, the reasoning behind the rules, the source of the authority to promulgate the exemptions, and [...]
To St. Louis patrons of live music, BMI once again appears to be the bad guy. This week, BMI filed suit in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri against The Jive and Wail, a dueling piano entertainment venue located in Maplewood. The Jive and Wail, self-described, features professional piano players, [...]
“Don’t tase me, bro!” That phrase, uttered during Senator Kerry’s address at the University of Florida, will live on, probably long after we have forgotten who the unfortunate youth who exclaimed it was. An interesting consideration is, when Andrew Meyer yelled what has become a catchphrase was it a foreshadowing of genercide – that [...]
As a frequent user of Shazam’s app for the iPhone, I have recently become skeptical of the performance rights organizations’ future ability to correctly identify the frequency of songs played on the radio. For those who are not familiar with Shazam, it is an application that ”listens” to approximately 10 seconds of a song – playing in [...]