Creative Commons has released their newest license, the CC Zero license, which allows you to waive copyright and related rights to your work. According to their public domain dedication page, this means that your work, if associated with the license, could be “freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, or built upon by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.” Read more...
28.2.09
Creative Commons Launches “Zero” License
Facebook Gives Power to the People
Facebook has announced that henceforth users will have a say in company policies, simply by commenting and voting on them before they are implemented on the social networking site. On Thursday, founder Mark Zuckerberg reassured Facebook users that they own their information, not the site, and that steps will be taken to insure that privacy, ownership and sharing policies will be determined democratically by the community. Continue reading...
Electonic Arts To Develop Music Games
Electronic Arts, video game publisher of popular titles like The Sims and Spore, is currently helping MTV distribute the music video game Rock Band, but at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, EA’s Chief Operating Officer John Pleasants indicated that the company might be developing a their own music game in the near future by commenting:
Continue reading...“There are lots of other things you can do with music, and we’re working on interesting things, and we know our competition is working on interesting things.”
27.2.09
EMI Files Suit Against Music Search Engine Seeqpod
EMI and Capitol Records are suing music search engine SeeqPod for copyright infringement in New York. Seeqpod doesn’t host tracks, but provides a search index and player for them, and despite the lawsuit, says that it will continue business as usual. Read more...
26.2.09
Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Isn’t Illegal
The Pirate Bay Trial is advancing rapidly, yesterday John Kennedy, the chief executive of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) explained how piracy was responsible for the downfall of the music industry, and declared the $2.67 million fine “justified and maybe even conservative because the damage is immense“. Continue reading...
Tim Burton Wants To Work With The Cure
Tim Burton, who has his next 3D movie Alice in Wonderland in the works, wants to collaborate with The Cure, and admits to being a long time fan of the band. The prodigious filmmaker presented the band with the Godlike Genius at the NME awards on Wednesday, and told BBC:
Continue reading...“I’ve been [a fan] for so many years and they’ve been so inspirational to me, so it’s a real honour to be here with them. I could easily see really liking to do something, collaborate some time.”
Arcade Fire and Beirut Members in Team B
Team B, the newest project led by Arcade Fire/Beirut member Kelly Pratt, includes LCD Soundsystem’s Pat Mahoney on drums, Jon Natchez and Perrin Cloutier from Beirut and Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire. While without a label, the band has recorded an album that’s available now through the Team B Myspace, and through iTunes. Continue reading...
25.2.09
Noripcord News: Touch & Go, Next New Networks, The Pirate Bay, MTV
Welcome to the second of Noripcord's weekly news digests. It's been a busy seven days in the music industry so rather than bore you with a tedious intro, let's just just get straight to the key stories. Touch & Go, Next New Networks, The Pirate Bay and MTV, read more...
Robert Smith Slams Radiohead’s Free Album Release
Robert Smith, singer and guitarist of The Cure, thinks Radiohead’s “pay what you want” business model for 2007’s release of their album In Rainbows is fundamentally wrong, and said that “you can’t allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don’t consider what you do to have any value at all and that’s nonsense.” Continue reading...
Last.fm Denies Giving Users’ Data to RIAA
After U2’s latest album, No Line On the Horizon, was leaked online, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reportedly became interested in users listening to the album on Last.fm. Then on February 20, online magazine TechCrunch posted an unsourced rumor that said Last.fm was revealing users’ listening data to the RIAA, an accusation that Last.fm’s employees are vehemently denying. Read more...
24.2.09
Sholi: Math Rock, Neuroscience and Persia
San Franciscan math rock band Sholi has combined neuroscience, mathematics and varied cultures in their self-titled debut album, released Tuesday by Quarterstick Records. Singer and guitarist Payam Bavafa worked at neuroscience research company, and conducted experiments on the human memory. He uses those experiences as an influence for his compositions. Read more...
Irish Internet Users Blocked From The Pirate Bay
The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) has threatened internet service providers (ISP’s) with legal action to the point where Eircom, the country’s biggest internet provider, has buckled under the pressure and simply blocked users from accessing file-sharing sites, especially The Pirate Bay. Continue reading...
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