Free Speech Sacks Publicity Rights (but Was it Offside?) A few weekends ago I blogged about publicity rights in connection with a Vampire Weekend album cover. One of my main points was that publicity rights are a lot like copyright, except that it’s a right held by...
Is Turntable.fm Too Cool for the Webcasting Tribe? In our last two posts in this series, we saw how Pandora had to jump through about twelve hoops to come under the statutory webcaster license (just for the right to pay statutory royalties!), and even then, its...
When “Unique” Doesn’t Mean “Special” (and Why that Actually Makes Sense) Last time, we looked at how venerable Pandora fits into the legal ecosystem of online music services. It’s a webcaster, which means that, if it plays its cards...
When “Unique” Doesn’t Mean “Special” (and Why that Actually Makes Sense) Last time, we looked at how venerable Pandora fits into the legal ecosystem of online music services. It’s a webcaster, which means that, if it plays its cards...
When “Unique” Doesn’t Mean “Special” (and Why that Actually Makes Sense) Last time, we looked at how venerable Pandora fits into the legal ecosystem of online music services. It’s a webcaster, which means that, if it plays its cards...
Going from a no-clue, totally novice rookie Podcamper to a seasoned veteran Camp alum took literally twenty minutes on a Saturday morning this past March. By the time it was done, I was such an expert I even got called to speak at SpeakerUp because of my vast...
