Radiohead and the search for content business models
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| Music has resisted advertising-assisted business models, but that’s what
| radio is. The ability of music publishers to shut down Internet radio set the
| search for such business models back several years.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1643
The day the music died
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| Internet law professor Michael Geist examines a legal row which could have
| grave implications for anyone and everyone serving an online audience.
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| Within two years - without any funding, sponsorship or promotion - the site
| had become the largest public domain music score library on the internet,
| generating a million hits per day, featuring over 15,000 scores by over 1,000
| composers, and adding 2,000 new scores each month.
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| In mid-October this year the IMSLP disappeared from the internet.
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| Universal Edition, an Austrian music publisher, retained a Canadian law firm
| to demand that the site block European users from accessing certain works and
| from adding new scores for which the copyright had not expired in Europe.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7074786.stm
Copyright law scuppers fan film
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| A copyright row means that one of the most ambitious fan films ever made may
| never be shown before an audience.
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| Four years in the planning Damnatus, made by German fans of the Warhammer
| 40,000 game, cost more than 10,000 euros, took months to film, employs 11
| principal actors, dozens of extras and sophisticated post-production special
| effects. Now finished the film runs to 110 minutes.
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| But Huan Vu, director and producer of the movie, said Damnatus' creators have
| now given up trying to get the film in front of an audience.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/7010484.stm
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