Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu (accessed January-February 2007). [Requires an Internet connection; Web browser; Apple QuickTime for streaming; speakers or headphones] One of the difficulties teachers and scholars have faced when trying to integrate into their work recordings made before the...

The Format not just another emo band.
Byline: Scott McLennan COLUMN: SCOTT MCLENNAN The Format is on the fourth go-round of touring since releasing its gem of an album "Dog Problems" last year and singer Nate Ruess thinks his band has finally - FINALLY - shaken the tag of being "that pop...

The Doobie Brothers comes back around again.
Byline: Scott McLennan Can a "comeback" be called a "comeback" when it lasts longer than the original thing coming back? The Doobie Brothers came back in 1987 after a five-year hiatus that followed a hit-laden 15-year run, technically making it back longer than...

Digital Watermarking Alliance Supports Music Industry Efforts to Sell MP3 Music Downloads and Enhance Consumer Experiences.
As Record Labels Move Toward Distributing Music in Unencrypted MP3 Formats for Download, the DWA Encourages the Industry to Identify and Manage Those Assets With Proven and Readily Available Digital Watermarking LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry...

Nicolas Curien & Francois Moreau L'industrie du disque.
Nicolas CURIEN & Francois MOREAU L'industrie du disque Ed. La Decouverte, Coll. Reperes, 2006, 121 pages The 21st century has plunged the record industry into a crisis. Record sales, new releases and prices have all slumped. The rise of digital technology and the growth of audio file...

Concert Review; PARI'S special treat: Free live music, discounted CDs.
Byline: JHI D. GOPEZ One of PARIs (Philippine Association of the Record Industry) major events this year was their recent weekend advocacy gig, which transformed Eastwood in Libis into a music market with tent booths of record companies stationed around the concert stage. Dubbed "OPM Crossroads: The...

For the record, this is how to get used.
Byline: BEST OF ... by The Register-Guard It's quickly becoming an iPod-toting, music-down- loading world. But that doesn't mean we don't crave liner notes, song lyrics, jewel cases, bonus tracks and that special reflective quality that come with an honest-to-god manufactured CD. Team Best of...

Why Neil Young is wrong.
On Sunday, May 14, the San Francisco Chronicle published my open letter to Neil Young, "Hey Neil Young, We Young Singers Are Hog-tied, Too. " I tried to explain how the corporatized music industry has censored protest music in the past several years. The letter went viral on the...

Can DRM create new markets?
We argue that Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies can serve a number of marketing purposes that will make it easier for new artists to expose their products to consumers. As a result, DRM can create new markets. Introduction The music market is characterized by a...

I want my MP3: secondary copyright liability in a hidden peer-to-peer network.
"[Y]ou can run but you can't hide."--Cary Sherman, President RIAA (2) I. INTRODUCTION A worldwide technology arms race is underway between artists and their fans. (3) The fight is over copyrights, and the arms are the technologies that control, or destroy control, over the copyrighted...