A whole country (albeit not a very big one) goes in for compulsory licenses for music.
Alright... So I should get around to seeing a Noam Elkies lecture some time.
From the public domain to Wikimedia Commons to a song performed by an acapella group in Cambridge. Awesome.
This little python program is handy in the (quite frequent) event that Amazon is giving away music files
I didn't realize Kraftwerk were the bad guys.
This would have been really useful at DebConf a few years ago when we were looking for a new pump for a pipe organ!
" An appeals court agreed, with Judge Alex Kozinski saying, "With fame often comes unwanted attention." Noting the often bitter tone taken by companies in this five-year legal battle, Kozinski ordered both sides to behave. "The parties are advised to chill," he said in his ruling."
Unbelievable review of Pitchfork in n+1. I didn't even know what Pitchfork was before I read the article, I loved it. But I basically love everything that they do.
via Nadav: "Azerbaijani authorities used SMS eavesdropping to see who their citizens voted for in the Eurovision song contest. They then interrogated the 43 people who voted for "rival" country Armenia..."
