Category: Media Wonk

While France, Great Britain, New Zealand and other territories grapple with efforts to make ISPs liable to one degree or another for copyright infringement occurring on their networks, broadband providers in the U.S. may soon find themselves dragged into the center of the debate as well. Read More …

I thought of Bartleby as I was reading Nate Anderson’s lovely write up of the fourth day of the Pirate Bay trial for Ars Technica, which recounts the testimony of two of the four defendants, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg: Read More …

In other times, retrenchment by the majors often opened some breathing space in the market for indies. In the current climate, however, rapidly declining sales of mid-list DVDs may make it harder than ever for would-be indie producers to raise financing. Read More …

At the Future of Music Coalition’s Policy Day conference in Washington, even those hoping that the Obama administration will spur a major overhaul of U.S. copyright and telecommunications law acknowledged it would likely be some time before they can get the attention of Congress and the new administration. In the meantime, they said, the major Read More …