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Google Search Data Makes The RIAA’s Censorship Efforts Look Pretty Dumb
By its own account, the RIAA will submit 30 million link takedown requests to Google this week. Google will ultimately comply with most of them, but the RIAA wants more. Now Google’s fighting back against censorship with data.
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This Is What The Copyright Alert System In The US Looks Like In Action
By now, you’ve heard enough about the Copyright Alert System in the US to know what it is and, perhaps, how useless it could be. But what the hell will it look like in reality?
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Here’s How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists
Pandora, which quietly reinstated its internet radio service in Australia back in July, wants you to know that Pandora is good for music because it pays artists millions and millions of dollars for their songs. Take Drake and Lil Wayne — they get nearly $US3 million each a year. And Pandora wants to pay them…
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Money Won In Pirate Bay Convictions Won’t Go Back To Artists
In February, the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay were ordered to pay $US675,000 to music labels. The money was intended to compensate the artists whose royalties had been depleted by piracy. Guess what? The music labels aren’t going to see a dime.