Web Directory

» APIG inquiry into Digital Rights Management
   Details of the investigation and subsequent report by the UK Parliament's 'All Party Internet Group' into DRM systems in the music industry. Evidence was taken from campaigners and interested parties from all sides of the debate.
   http://www.apcomms.org.uk/apig/current-activities/apig-inquiry-into-digital-rights-management.html

» Beyondthecommons
   Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
   http://www.beyondthecommons.com/

» Boycott-Riaa.com
   Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
   http://www.boycott-riaa.com/

» Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet
   The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
   http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm

» Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
   Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
   http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm

» Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War
   Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
   http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_633.html

» File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales
   Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
   http://www.webspawner.com/users/jiminyjose123/index.html

» Free Music
   Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.
   http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html

» NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute
   DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1722774

» News.com - File sharing legal in Canada
   Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
   http://news.cnet.com/2100-1027_3-5182641.html

» PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA
   A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
   http://www.pcworld.com/article/112677/p2p_companies_take_aim_at_the_riaa.html

» Piracy is Your Friend
   A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
   http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html

» Policing Pirates in the Networked Age
   A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
   http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html

» RIAA Radar
   A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
   http://www.riaaradar.com/

» Recording Industry vs. the People
   Collects and shares information about the lawsuits brought against ordinary people by the RIAA and the majors. By Ray Beckermann, business lawyer in New York City.
   http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/

» Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?
   As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
   http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html

» Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
   An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
   http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/

» The Droplift Project
   Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
   http://www.droplift.org

» The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading
   Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
   http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2FArticleNews%2FTPStory%2FLAC%2F20040318%2FCOCOPY18%2FComment%2FIdx&ord=21945933

» The Problem With Music
   Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
   http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

» a2f2a
   Discusses systems which could offer artists fair remuneration in exchange for access to material by fans, and the role P2P can play within the emergent digital record industry by cutting out the middlemen.
   http://a2f2a.com/