Posted in Copyright, Internet, Marketing, Media on Mar 3rd, 2008
That’s how marketing theorist Seth Godin described the music industry in a recent talk to its executives. Emphasis on “was.” The industry now appears to be headed by CEOs who not only bemoan the loss of a time when a few companies controlled the music industry and could count on free marketing […]
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Posted in Copyright, Internet, Law, Media on Dec 13th, 2007
Here’s something I didn’t know:
Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern reprints of Shakespeare’s plays, Beethoven’s piano scores, greeting card versions of Monet’s Water Lilies, and even the U.S. Constitution. Archives claim blanket copyright in everything in their collections. Vendors of microfilmed versions of historical newspapers assert copyright ownership. These false copyright claims, […]
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