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Last night the 2008 Music Video Awards was on MTV. The first MVA aired on MTV at the end of the summer of 1984 to celebrate the top music videos of the year - thats nearly a quarter century ago. My my how things have changed?.well, some things.

“Hello” by Lionel Richie Lionel’s an acting teacher. He’s secretly in love with Laura, one of his students who is blind. I can see the brainstorming around this one: “ok, so we’ll put…

Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne is suing Republican presidential nominee John McCain and the Republican party for using his song Running on Empty? in a recent TV commercial.

In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Browne claims McCain and the party did not obtain permission to use the song for an ad in which Senator McCain and the Republicans mock Democratic candidate for president Barack Obama…

EMI believes that consumers aren’t allowed to store their music files online, and that MP3tunes is violating copyright law by providing a backup service.

In March, a court told EMI it couldn't demand that MP3tunes turn over all the music stored by customers on its servers. Robertson writes on his corporate blog that the request is absurd:Files are not MP3tunes' possessions any more than the…

Trent Reznor is an amazing man, just put your email address in to get the download link and check your email to download Discipline, the new single

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Next time your favorite DJ tosses a promo CD from a UMG artist into the trash, he or she should be reminded that the music industry behemoth considers such disposal an “unauthorized distribution” that’s tantamount to piracy. … An EFF lawyer found this contention in UMG’s latest brief in an ongoing copyright case involving promo CDs on Ebay.

Yes, if UMG had actually treated these CDs as if they owned them, then the answer might be different. For example, everyone agrees that the first sale doctrine doesn't apply where a copy is rented. So if UMG wanted to enter into contracts with…

Lots of music software is free. Migrating to open source is not difficult; much open source software is available on Windows, so you won’t have to switch to Linux right away if you don’t want to.

Migrating to open source is not difficult; much open source software is available on Windows, so you won’t have to switch to Linux right away if you don’t want to. If you want to save money and free yourself from vendor lock-in, then…