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Google found itself at the centre of a lot of criticism when it shut down seven popular music blogs without warning last week. The blogs in question Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, I Rock Cleveland, Masala, To Die By Your Side, It’s a Rap, Ryan’s Smashing Life, and Living Ears had in some cases, up to five years of music writing dumped from Google’s Blogger servers without notification for alleged US copyright infringement.
Maddeningly, many of the offending MP3s in question on these blogs were actually approved by bands and record labels. Miscommunication between some tiers in the music industry led to legal reps for these labels issuing Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices to Google despite the fact that marketing and PR wings of the same company had sent the bloggers the tracks in the first place. In one bizarre case, a DMCA notice requested that the band BLK JKS remove their own song from their official site.
To complicate things further, the correspondence the bloggers received from Google didn’t specify what songs were the cause of the infringement making it very difficult, as suggested by Google to file a counter-claim. If you don’t know what you did wrong exactly, how can you correct it? Continue Reading..»
While the internet is great for pornography, poker, time wasting and pop culture, there are more creative benefits of modern net usage. The internet has enabled the cross collaboration of likeminded artists who live thousands of miles away. Taking that idea and amplifying it is the Youtube Symphony Orchestra, a call for professional and amateur musicians of “all ages, locations and instruments” to submit a video performance of themselves playing a part of a new piece written specifically by Chinese composer Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon soundtrack).
Each video submission was judged by panel and the finalists were chosen last week to travel to New York in April to participate and play the piece at Carnegie Hall under the direction of the American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
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