Mobile Music & The Ipod Frenzy

Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing reversed himself and determined that the Dead/Archive compromise is a sham: Boing Boing: Grateful Dead “reversal” on fan-recordings is a smokescreen I agree with much of what he says. He gets a few things factually wrong, but probably only a Deadhead could make some of these distinctions accurately: What, exactly, is the Grateful Dead’s “legal property?” The media on which the recordings reside? No, those belong to the fans and/or the Internet Archive. Rather, the thing that the Grateful Dead controls is the copyrights in the performa ... (more)

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