Pixels Movie DMCA Takedown Leaves Trail of Innocent Videos in Its Wake
Pixels is a new Adam Sandler “movie” that you almost certainly should not see. (Sample review snippet: “Pixels, it is clear even from afar, is the sort of vanity project that represents everything that is wrong with Hollywood.”)
August 25, 2015
Who Owns – and Who Can Profit From – The Copyrights to Your Instagrams?
It’s a complicated question.
August 18, 2015
Google It With A Capital G
Google’s recent move to break off the parts of the company that are a bit more experimental in nature (like the ones trying to make sure that people never die) and house those parts under a new corporate umbrella called Alphabet has drawn quite a bit of commentary, much of it focusing on Google’s corporate strategy, brand value, or vision for its own future.
August 18, 2015
Soundexchange and the Ongoing, Hard-fought Battle to Pay Performers for Their Master Royalties
Let’s acknowledge this right off the top: we live in an age where a large contingent of the population has internalized the idea that music, songs, albums, etc., are fully “free.” Nobody likes to side with, say, the RIAA, while they’re filing lawsuits against 12 year olds with Limewire (or its more current equivalent).
July 22, 2015
Advocates for the Creative Mind
