01 Oct 2002
Tue, 01 Oct 2002
Music Industry Suits Skewered By Musicians
Via Scripting News: MusicDish Industry e-Journal
Absent the penalty of perjury, Major Label lawyers testified to a panel of senators in Los Angles that most artists are happy with their recording contracts. The panel, this past Tuesday, was assembled to entertain arguments as to wether legislation might be necessary to keep major record labels honest when reporting to their artists the amount of money earned on their exclusive record contracts. If enacted, this would be the beginning of government regulation of the music business; a concept that, ironically, artists are initiating.
Deeply disturbing.
Posted at: 22:08 | permalink
MIT Releases Open Courseware
MIT has released it's first iteration of Open Courseware to the public. While I'm excited about the long term prospects, I'm a bit disappointed in the short term. The greatest long term potential may be to influence curricula at lesser institutions from community colleges to high schools. Unless I'm missing something, the short term is less impressive. The site certainly looks nice, but there's not much content. These are all lessons they could have gotten from reading their own graduates, and professors. Why a single person can do this in his spare time with a minimum of effort and produce useful results when a university-funded project can barely get off the ground is beyond me. Oh wait, I forgot. It's really quite sad. Philip Greenspun's materials have been online for years and he's been at MIT for eons, but his own stuff doesn't appear on the Open Courseware site. Go figure.
Posted at: 09:23 | permalink
Music Industry Pays $67 Million Price Fixing Settlement
Slashdot reports on the $67 Million price fixing settlement being paid by the music industry.
Slashdot | Music Industry Pays $67M Fine For Price Fixing
I agree with the posters who pointed out that the settlement is far too small relative to the amount overpaid by consumers in the 1995-2000 period. The music industry has raped consumers for far too long. Now the raping's going to go in the other direction.
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