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Google have just announced a new set of Content ID tools which will help copyright owners protect their content on the YouTube platform. More detail is given here. These new policies and the copyright ID platform may enable Google to shrug off or negotiate a way out of the onerous suits it faces from Viacom and the UK’s Premier League. But it also seems to back away from the idea of establishing a ‘fair use’ of video clippings … Keep Reading

Radiohead’s new disk, In Rainbows, is going to be, is already a smash hit, a commercial coup for the band and a pathbreaker when it comes to music distribution. A VC, Fred Wilson, estimates that it may have grossed them $6.5 million in four days. Not bad.

Books are different from music (especially in that ‘downloads’ are not the way forward; since digital editions are much more promising); but there is a lot that book publishers could … Keep Reading

The Wire “…seeks out the best current musics in, and between, all genres; and is committed to investigating music’s past as well as its present and future…” (from their FAQ). The latest magazine in the Exact Editions shop.

• Reviews 50 or 60 of them,
• e.g. of Cornelius Cardew.
• Von Südenfed.

From the editorial:

The Wire

May 2007

Page 6

We had some interesting feedback from a new subscriber the other day:

This is my first adventure into a web magazine, and I am amazed at the size I can get by zooming into a page, showing the images so clearly that you can almost see the structure of the cloth. I am sure that in the months ahead, I am going to enjoy having a subscription magazine on line.

“The structure of the cloth” suggests that this subscriber was … Keep Reading