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Digital Music and the Free Market

Max Keiser | Posted April 24, 2008 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, Amiestreet.Com, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Bernanke, Cartel, Copyright, Digital Music, Eliot Spitzer, George Soros, Marketing, Mpaa, Record Companies, Riaa, Swedish PIrate Party

One of the most fascinating New Economy consequences to emerge from the Eliot Spitzer sex sting is the apparent multi-hundred thousand dollar score bagged by Emperor's Club VIP escort and budding recording artist Ashley Alexandra Dupre. She had a couple of tracks listed on Dragon Slayer upstart and...

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Hollywood's Greed Makes April Fool's Joke Believable

Art Brodsky | Posted April 2, 2008 | Media

Read More: April Fools Day, Copyright, Internet

Criticizing Hollywood for being greedy is pretty easy. It's rare when they are not greedy, particularly when it comes to their assaults on Congress. Making the point in a little off-beat fashion can be much more satisfying, and that's what we did at Public Knowledge, where I work during...

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Von Furstenberg Sues Target Over "Spotted Frog" Dress

Reuters | January 25, 2008 05:53 PM

Read More: Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Diane Von Furstenberg, Target

A top fashion designer sued Target Corp on Thursday for copyright infringement and other claims, saying the discount store is selling dresses with a print that is nearly identical to its "spotted frog design." Diane Von Furstenberg Studio LP, named...

Funny Numbers in Hollywood? We Are Shocked! Shocked!

Art Brodsky | Posted January 24, 2008 | Media

Read More: Congress, Copyright, LEK Study, Movie Piracy, Mpaa, Piracy, Pro-IP Act

For years, the concept of "Hollywood accounting" had the same level respect as that old oxymoron "military intelligence." It didn't take an Art Buchwald or James Garner years ago, or even the writer's strike now, to show that playing with numbers in Hollywood is less a science than an exercise...

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Note To Striking Writers -- At Least The Studios Aren't Spying On Them

Art Brodsky | Posted November 15, 2007 | Media

Read More: Copyright, Filmmaking, Hollywood, Hollywood Strike, Moviemaking, Television, WGA Strike, Writers Guild Of America, Writers Guild Of America Strike, Writers' Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion

We know it's tough out on the picket line. Writers should get paid for their work. Few people dispute that. Unfortunately, the few who do are the ones controlling the money. But let's take a minute and put things in perspective. The writers, after all, are the people to whom...

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Another Writers Strike? Why I Have Sympathy...

Erik Lundegaard | Posted November 14, 2007 | Entertainment

I was wondering how the AMPTP thought they could get away with it -- paying writers nothing for ad-driven shows streamed over the internet -- when it hit me: producers are just attempting to do what publishers have already done.

The big battle between publishers and their writers (the...

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The Thief Next Door

Dr. R. Keith Sawyer | Posted November 13, 2007 | Business

Yes, there is a thief next door. And across the street, too. There might even be one in your house. At least, that's the claim coming from music and film producers, who have been fighting against illegal music and video downloads--a.k.a. "file sharing"--for years, staring with legal action that put...

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D'oh! House GOP Website Pirates Simpsons Images?

Chris Weigant | Posted October 24, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Burns, C. Montgomery Burns, Childrens Health, Copyright, Health Care, Joe Barton, Quimby, Schip, Simpson, Simpsons

Quimby CMBurns
[Mayor "Diamond" Joe Quimby and tycoon C. Montgomery Burns]

You may well wonder why I, a (mostly) serious political analyst, begin my weekly Wednesday column with the images of two Simpsons characters. The answer is: these two images are the story....

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