Authors Guild: ‘To RIAA or Not to RIAA’ - Wired News

Creating a digital catalogue of the worlds’ words might be the Holy Grail of intellectual empowerment. Yet building that library in the clouds would be allowed without the rightsholders’ consent — which the Justice Department and others contend

D.C. Punk Vets Record Prog-Rock Song to Promote Novel - Washington City Paper
Note: This post requires a disclosure as vast and sprawling as the song it is ostensibly about . Some people record six-minute-long prog-rock epics because they want to infuse Gilgamesh with the power of electric guitars. And others do it because

Authors Guild Disagrees with Justice Department Stance on the Revised - Mediabistro.com
In a memo to membership today, the Authors Guild disagreed with the U.S. Justice Department’s new stance on the revised Google Books Settlement–a new kink in Google’s quest to digitize millions of books online. Yesterday the Department of Justice

Justice Department Once - Mediabistro.com
In a memo to membership today, the Authors Guild disagreed with the U.S. Justice Department’s new stance on the revised Google Books Settlement–a new kink in Google’s quest to digitize millions of books online. Yesterday the Department of Justice

Authors Guild: We don’t want to be the RIAA - CNET News
The Authors Guild agreed to a controversial settlement with Google because it feared repeating the mistakes that the music industry has made in dealing with digital works, it said Friday. With that in mind, many have wondered why the Authors Guild

Albums to CD’S to MP3’s - Tucson Citizen
I caught myself saying recently that I did not own a certain collection of albums. The truth is I have not owned an “album” in a very long time. As much as I squawk about modern technology, my music remains on 4 external hard drives on my