This week I read an article about the RIAA and their attempts to change the thought of children on creative content and how it should be released. I think after a lot of what I have read about the RIAA and their tactics in counteracting piracy they are going at it all...
This week I read a Blog on The Current about Jeremy Messersmith and his performance on The David Letterman Show. While on the show he wore a Pirate Bay shirt, something that could spur some controversy considering he is a music is making his living through his plays, a...
This week I read an article about how the Department of Justice is getting involved in investigating how ASCAP and BMI are behaving and colluding with publishers in artificially driving up the rates for radio stations, namely pandora. This was interesting to me because...
This week I found an article talking about alerts letting people know they are downloading an item illegally are being warned against doing so. These alerts are going to be increased to people pirating these files, violating the copyright law that the user has the rig...
This week I got thinking about fan fic’s and their problems they may come across in regards to copyright. Fan fictions are popular among die hard fans of shows who will take the story of the show and make their own derivative work based upon the original. These fans do...
This week I found an article about the movie frozen and a section of the movie where the snowman loses his nose and then chases it over a frozen lake and has to somewhat compete with a moose. I have yet to see the movie frozen but I found the clip on youtube as well as...
This week I got an e-mail about Twitch and it’s new changes in the way it handles VODs. VODs are videos that are saved after they are broadcasted. These VODs can be viewed at any time by someone looking to re-watch the live broadcast of a twitch channel later in the da...
The happy birthday song has always been a bit of a mystery to me since I was young. I was always curious why each restaurant had its own version of the song and they weren't able to sing the song that we always heard at birthday parties and at school. I later found ou...
Danger Mouse Is a well known producer and musician and makes fantastic pieces of art. His album has always been an interest of mine in regards to copyright due to the nature of the album and how it was released. The long story short, he ma...
Weird al's new set of music videos are awesome and the way they are being released is a brilliant idea to build traffic on good websites as well as build a ton of buzz over his album, Mandatory Fun.
