Full Coverage: Digital Media & File Sharing
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Off the Wires
- Yahoo To Reimburse Customers Of DRM-Protected Music TechWeb - Fri Jul 25, 4:54 PM ET
- The Death of DRM PC World - Fri Jul 25, 3:39 PM ET
- Yahoo: Burn Your DRMed Tracks to CD Now PC World - Fri Jul 25, 7:10 AM ET
- Cheap, Full-Featured Creative PMP Heads to U.S. PC Magazine - Fri Jul 25, 6:22 AM ET
- Britain agrees plan to tackle online music piracy Reuters - Thu Jul 24, 7:43 AM ET
News Stories
- Yahoo launches legal lyrics site at BBC - Thu, Apr 26, 2007
- EMI and Apple 'in DRM deal' at The Guardian (UK). - Mon, Apr 02, 2007
- EMI takes locks off music tracks at BBC - Mon, Apr 02, 2007
- YouTube to present video awards at BBC - Mon, Mar 19, 2007
- Rare Beatles footage goes online at BBC - Wed, Mar 14, 2007
Feature Articles
- Q&A: What is DRM? at BBC - Mon, Apr 02, 2007
- Candidates Try Web Video, And the Reviews Are Mixed at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Sat, Mar 17, 2007
- Will EMI Set Its Music Free? at Forbes - Fri, Feb 16, 2007
- Would You Go to Jail for This Woman? at RollingStone.com - Thu, Feb 08, 2007
- Ruckus Network Launches Free Campus Access To Downloads at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Mon, Jan 22, 2007
- What the iPhone Will Cost to Make at Business Week - Thu, Jan 18, 2007
Opinion & Editorials
- Lawyers, songs and money at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd) - Tue, May 01, 2007
- Michael Fricklas - Our Case Against YouTube at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Sat, Mar 24, 2007
- Time to Face the Music on File Sharing at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Thu, Feb 15, 2007
- Download biz has to change, or digital sales will be playing a swan song at USATODAY.com - Wed, Feb 14, 2007
- A lock on the market at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd) - Thu, Feb 08, 2007
- Cyber-karma at Philadelphia Inquirer (reg req'd) - Wed, Nov 22, 2006
Related Web Sites
- Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI)
- founded to develop a specification for the secure distribution and use of music in digital form. Site includes a FAQ about the initiative.
- Recording Industry Association of America
- site includes sections on music and piracy and legal cases.
- Boycott RIAA
- opposes the RIAA and the music industry on the grounds that they exercise near-monopolistic control over artists and their work. Endorses new technologies that bypass the industry and allows artists to have control over their work.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: File-Sharing: It's Music to our Ears
- campaign in support of peer-to-peer file-sharing. Includes a searchable database of usernames and IP addresses impacted by the RIAA legal action.
- Coalition For The Future of Music
- Drawing together independent music and music technology communities to address marketplace issues such as control over the manufacturing and distribution of music.
- From Betamax to Napster: The Evolution of the "Right to Copy"
- timeline that traces advances in technology and related changes to intellectual property law. From MSNBC.