The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is ruffling feathers at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The background to this specific debate is the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which came into force in October 2011.
DJ Tiësto’s gig last night at XS Nightclub in Los Angeles was the first to be broadcast live on Twitter.
Although Dotted Music will always support digital music sales, it’s important to note that there is a lot of work to do before the music industry can be said to have adapted to technological pressures.
The U.S. Trade Representative’s annual report on so-called Notorious Markets highlights the most notorious agents of copyright infringement on the world wide web.
In a recent article, entitled, “Napster’s long shadow: copyright and peer-to-peer technology”, published in the Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Nick Scharf, a PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia, examines the fallout from Napster.
According to the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), stockings this Christmas will be filled with up to 20 million CDs. The most obvious response to this is: Why?
