| Directory > Society > Issues > Intellectual Property > Music Freedom The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading
Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees
file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040318/COCOPY18/Comment/Idx
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Beyondthecommons
Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing
rights.
http://www.beyondthecommons.com/
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Boycott CDs
Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~chapinr/
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Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some
measures, swaps are actually escalating.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040116_9177_tc024.htm
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Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet
The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to
encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040127_2819_tc047.htm
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Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?
As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe
it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/17/brownback_bill/index_np.html
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Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he
doesn't know why.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/13/liebowitz/
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Policing Pirates in the Networked Age
A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry
experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-438es.html
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We Hate the RIAA
Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
http://riaa.freecyberzone.com/
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RIAA Radar
A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the
Recording Industry Association of America.
http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/
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Boycott-Riaa.com
Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and
writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With
background information, news, essays, and links.
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
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Free Music
Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy,
distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested
further reading, links to related sites.
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/freemusic.html
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The Droplift Project
Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and
subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free
MP3 downloads.
http://www.droplift.org
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Piracy is Your Friend
A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony
issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html
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The Problem With Music
Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and
unproductive.
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
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Mass Mic
Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and
contact information.
http://www.massmic.com/
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Musicians Against Copyrighting Of Samples
An international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology
oppose the copyrighting of samples. Allowing the general public to sample from MACOS material
freely, without incurring any legal ramifications.
http://www.icomm.ca/macos/
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Art to Heart Petition Statement
Restrictive closed format protocols such as SDMI threaten to halt the free flow of digitally
distributed music from artists to their fans. An alliance of vested interests in the music
industry is attempting to impose restrictive security features on all digital music software and
hardware players under the pretext of protecting themselves against piracy.
http://www.free-music.com/petition/
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Why Free Music?
A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate
to music.
http://www.free-music.com/freemus.htm
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