Category Archives: politics

Digital Media, Copyright, and the Future of Academic Cultural Criticism

February 16, 2009 – 11:34 pm

When, as happens in many cases, a company that owns the intellectual property of a song, movie, image, or other cultural object included in a YouTube video submits successfully a DMCA takedown notice, does that, in and of itself destroy culture? Consider a novel. When there is a concept or idea pivotal to a paper [...]

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Another One Bites The Dust

August 18, 2008 – 11:17 am

For as long as the technology has existed, webcasters have been (un)regulated the same way as terrestrial radio stations – specifically, most were not required to pay royalties for the music they played. This system was originally established a half-century ago to allow for labels to have free advertising at the hands of the stations, [...]

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A Different Take on the Demise of OiNK

October 25, 2007 – 4:40 am

This afternoon, Stereogum highlighted one user’s reaction to the arrest of OiNK’s creator and the closing of their file forums. I thought it was an important enough perspective that it deserved a repost: Yes, it provided a way to get free versions of widely available popular albums, but it also archived and cataloged the last [...]

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