News.com - File sharing legal in Canada
Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
We Hate the RIAA
Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
Music File-Sharing Does Not Hurt CD Sales: Study
Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales.
Boycott CDs
Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
Beyondthecommons
Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
Boycott-Riaa.com
Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet
The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War
Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
Policing Pirates in the Networked Age
A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
Downhill Battle
Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
The Droplift Project
Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
Why Free Music?
A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music.
The Globe and Mail - Copy This: Up With Downloading
Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album
Site organizing and then reporting on the results of the 24 February, 2004 protest against actions censoring the Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse.
RIAA Radar
A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Mass Mic
Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and contact information.
Piracy is Your Friend
A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
The Problem With Music
Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
NPR : DJ's 'Grey Album' Spurs Dispute
DJ Dangermouse (Brian Burton) took vocals from rapper Jay-Z's "The Black Album," mixed them with instrumentals from The Beatles (known to all as The White Album), and came up with "The Grey Album." It wasn't made for commercial release, but the mixes got Internet play. EMI - the label controlling Beatles music - took legal action, and Web sites recently mounted a protest. Joel Rose reports. [7:42 streaming audio broadcast]
PCWorld.com - P2P Companies Take Aim at the RIAA
A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
Free Music
Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.
Salon - File sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.
Salon - Can Anyone Stop the Music Cops?
As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
Supporters of the Real Underground
Underground music supporting community web site, featuring news, artists and music.
File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music Sales
Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
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