Singer/songwriter/activist Billy Bragg's just launched a new effort to try to push for a reform of copyright laws: a Web site that acts as a forum for conversations between artists and fans. It's being dubbed the Net's first and only artists-to-fans-to-artists blog.
Bragg's been a prominent figure in pushing for music reform for a long time, and he walks a very fine and complex line indeed between the lawsuit-hungry recording industry, governmental regulation, and the evolving ways that the public behaves with online music availability. For example, Bragg was involved in forcing MySpace to change its music-playing policy, making the company change its terms and conditions after he very publicly pulled his music from the site because MySpace's legalese implied it could onwards-license tracks without paying the artists for the privilege.
While that sounds like the activities of a fiendish IP-guarding artist, it's actually at the core...
Bragg's been a prominent figure in pushing for music reform for a long time, and he walks a very fine and complex line indeed between the lawsuit-hungry recording industry, governmental regulation, and the evolving ways that the public behaves with online music availability. For example, Bragg was involved in forcing MySpace to change its music-playing policy, making the company change its terms and conditions after he very publicly pulled his music from the site because MySpace's legalese implied it could onwards-license tracks without paying the artists for the privilege.
While that sounds like the activities of a fiendish IP-guarding artist, it's actually at the core...
- 10/26/2009
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
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