Filesharing Copyrights Intellectual Property Issues

"File sharing isn't just a problem for the music industry. It's a threat to anyone who depends upon intellectual property for a living." By Scott Matthews. [Salon]

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• 'Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread' - Interview with Wilco, a band that dropped its intellectual property label and file shared its album, achieving commercial intellectual property success and Grammy nominations. [Wired]
• LA Times: File 'sharing' or 'stealing'? - Jon Healey writes about the semantic debate over whether copyright filesharing infringement is theft, in response to an Op-Ed submission that filesharing called for file sharing to be decriminalized.
• The Pirate's Dilemma - A blog about the relationship between piracy, youth filesharing culture, pop filesharing culture and innovation. Information on the filesharing book The Pirate\\'s Dilemma: filesharing How Youth Culture Re-invented filesharing Capitalism and author and speaker Matt filesharing Mason.
• Yo Ho Ho – Buccanerds Give Studios a Broadside - Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay intellectual property and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online]
• File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap? - "A controversial new study by economists at Harvard and the University of North Carolina has found that file-sharing is not the cause of declining CD sales." [Rolling Stone]
• Joel Fights Back - The story and defense of Joel Tenenbaum who copyrights has been accused by the recording industry of copyrights sharing seven songs on a P2P network. Includes copyrights a repository of the court filings related to copyrights the case.
• File Sharing: A Debate - Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s.
• MusicUnited.org - Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music.
• Who Owns Culture? - Streaming audio and video of a discussion of digital filesharing, part of a library series called "Live From the NYPL."
• Copying Isn't Cool - "File sharing isn\\'t just a problem for the music industry. filesharing It\\'s a threat to anyone who depends upon intellectual property filesharing for a living." By Scott Matthews. [Salon]
• The Effect of P2P File-sharing Depends on Popularity - The hits at the top of the charts copyrights lose sales, but the niche artists further down copyrights the popularity curve actually benefit from file-trading, according copyrights to a Harvard paper on the economics of copyrights filesharing. [The Long Tail]

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