Today, Chairman Goodlatte held a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet entitled "A Case Study for Consensus Building: The Copyright Principles Project."

The Copyright Principles Project is an ad hoc group predominantly comprised of "high tech" lawyers and...

Big Tech's "rock stars" are known by their first names only. There's Larry and Sergey, Bill and Steve, and even Mark and Meg.

So it is for the Big Tech commentariat, where two of the most revered names...

A huge technological transformation is underway in the U.S. and around the globe: Consumers are abandoning older technologies in favor of high-speed Internet services that rely on modern, fiber-based or IP-enabled broadband networks. As consumer demand skyrockets, it becomes more and more imperative to upgrade the old public switched telephone...

Universal Music Publishing recently signed agreements with Maker Studios and Fullscreen, two of the YouTube "multichannel networks" or MCNs. MCNs have been criticized for being unlicensed and of course YouTube has been criticized for permitting these unlicensed networks on the YouTube system.

Fortunately for all concerned -- starting...

Big Tech and Big Media have joined forces in the "Internet Radio Fairness Coalition" which includes Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Computer and Communications Industry Association (Google), Consumer Electronics Association (Google), Digital Media Association (Google) and... Pandora.

So you see, it sure looks like the way this works...

"Come to me when thou hast seen the elephants dance..." -- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The elephants are dancing in the Northern District of California, and the presiding judge has had about enough of it. In an interesting twist to the Oracle v. Google case, Judge William Alsup...

We have heard much about Google's many self-inflicted legal woes. The Street View/Spy-fi debacle alone has produced convictions of Google in at least nine countries, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center, not to mention Google's $500 million fine under a no-indictment agreement with the U.S....

Leslie Lewis has had an active role as a record executive, producer, manager, recording artist, marketing executive, artists & repertoire executive, advocate, motion picture music studio executive, soundtrack music executive, and as the Director of the Producers & Engineers Wing.

She co-founded and continues to produce the...

I interviewed David Lowery of Cracker and Camper van Beethovan about his viral blog post on The Trichordist discussing artist rights. Lowery's post was itself a response to an earlier post by an NPR intern, Emily White, and was widely viewed as a game...

I interviewed Jay Frank, owner and CEO of DigSin, a new singles-focused music company that allows subscribing fans to obtain music for free. DigSin signs new artists to deals that leverage new platforms, social networks and analytics that expose music to a wider audience, building popularity outside of traditional methods....

I interviewed Jay Frank, owner and CEO of DigSin, a new singles-focused music company that allows subscribing fans to obtain music for free. DigSin signs new artists to deals that leverage new platforms, social networks and analytics that expose music to a wider audience, building popularity outside of traditional methods.

I had a chance to talk to Mike Huppe, President of SoundExchange, about how artists get paid for the public performance of their recordings. (See Part 1 for the backgrounder). If you are a featured artist or sound recording owner, you can register at www.soundexchange.com This...

I had a chance to talk to Mike Huppe, President of SoundExchange, about how artists get paid for the public performance of their recordings. This interview is available as a podcast at Arts+Labs Innovation Central.

Background: This is an important distinction that is frequently lost on the public...

I caught up with John Pointer, a great artist from Austin, Texas (see his "Holy Trinity of Rhythm") and talked to him about his new web venture Patronism.com We also recorded a podcast which is available on Innovation Central.

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This post is Part 2 of a two-part interview with mastering great Bob Ludwig of Gateway Mastering. Read Part 1 here

I'm sure you don't master with freeware, can you give an overview of the kind of technology you use?

Bob Ludwig: We have great state-of-the-art...

Mastering is the last and probably the least understood step in the audio recording process.

Mastering engineer Bob Ludwig is one of the true living legends of the music business. In addition to being a Grammy winning engineer, he has received many TEC Awards for excellence and was...

Chairman Herb Kohl and Senator Mike Lee of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights wrote an interesting letter urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the issues raised against Google by several of the subcommittee's senators. This passage is striking:

"As discussed at...

Writing in the Huffington Post, Leslie Harris, the president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, accused Senator Chris Dodd of promoting Internet censorship through rogue website blocking. Harris wrote that Senator Dodd "...directly (and apparently favorably) compared the Internet filtering contemplated in two controversial U.S....

It's often been said of struggling political candidates that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. Historically, it's been a sound strategy, often enabling the "scoundrel" to steal a comeback victory by standing up for flag and country. In the digital age, the patriotism ploy has been updated with the...