Tag: copyright
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Monday Musing: If Property Is Theft, Who Stole Our Music?
Meaningful utterances can be represented in physical form: a spoken sentence may be represented symbolically by writing, or mimetically, by an audio recording. Such representations may be reproduced indefinitely, whether by a symbolic process (someone reads the words and writes them down again) or a mimetic one (someone makes a…
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Monday Musings: Information Wants To Be Free, or How Do You Own A Sound?
There’s a lot of thought being given, in all quarters, to how to turn music into money in the unprecedented circumstances in which we find ourselves. What is music worth? What is it about music that is tradeable? What parts of the traditional commercial landscape are worth defending? To what…
Oliver Arditi 