Fair Use: Let's Go Crazy

But what, exactly, is Universal Music accomplishing by hassling a Pennsylvania mother over the use of a few seconds of ambient, garbled music to which they hold a copyright?

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Prince Gets A Little Grabby

The Purple One performed some serious copyright overreach recently when he had YouTube remove a fan-recorded video of his perfomance of Radiohead’s song Creep at Coachella.

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Speedcasting

Speedcasts are simply podcasts speeded up just fast enough so that they are understandable yet cut down the amount of listening time significantly.

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Product Placement In Madden NFL 06

In 1994, the neo-punk band Green Day broke onto the popular music scene with their album Dookie, several songs from which enjoyed quite a bit of airtime on radio stations nationwide. Since then, the band has not enjoyed simliar commecial success until last year’s run-away success, American Idiot. That success could very well be due…

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