Category Archives: Intellectual Property

Sued for Reading an RSS Feed?

The blogosphere is coming of age. And the story of my recent experience with a well-known blog network illustrates a contentious issue in the blogosphere, contentious because blogging technology is just progressing too fast, even for bloggers. And because the law is moving even more slowly than the bloggers themselves. Before the dust settles, no [...]

If It Weren’t for the Innocent People Caught in the Middle

As a musician myself, I’ve been saying for years that the old music industry is on its way out. I get a good laugh whenever I read a news piece (usually in the establishment news) quoting some representative of the RIAA claiming that file sharing is going to destroy the music industry.