Notes From the Net

Feb 1, 2003, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

EDDIE KRAMER PHOTO ARCHIVES NOW ONLINE Engineer/producer Eddie Kramer created an immortal recording legacy in the '60s and '70s, working behind the board...

Notes From the Net

Jan 1, 2003, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

I will survive seems to be the running mantra (or joke, depending on which side of the legal battle you are on) for Napster, which was saved when a Delaware...

L.A. Grapevine

Jan 1, 2003, by Maureen Droney

ARTISTdirect Records, spawned as a cutting-edge Internet company, has morphed into an ambitious and innovative bricks-and-mortar business, as well. Some...

NOTES FROM THE NET

Dec 1, 2002

Rock the vote: The United States Copyright Office is now taking public comments on the section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that prohibits...

NOTES FROM THE NET

Nov 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

Quickly following the demise of Napster, entertainment industry groups, including the RIAA and NMPA, have asked a federal court judge to rule before a...

GOLD STAR STUDIOS REBORNONLINE

Oct 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

FOUNDERS LAUNCH INTERACTIVE WEBSITE Fifty years ago, Gold Star Studios was the place to be an independent, rock 'n' roll studio in a sea of label-owned...

NOTES FROM THE NET

Oct 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

NAPSTER PERMANENTLY OFFLINE A Delaware bankruptcy court denied the bankrupt Napster its $92 million proposed sale to Bertelsmann AG. Chief Judge Peter...

NOTES FROM THE NET

Sep 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

Business Plan One: Alienate Customers. At the end of July, Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., introduced the Peer to Peer Piracy...

Cloak, No Dagger

Aug 1, 2002, BY OLIVER MASCIAROTTE

This month, I'm talking about a controversial subject, the ephemeral rights-management chimera composed of equal parts copy control, cryptography and steganography (hiding information within apparent information). Each is distinct but part of a virtual wrapper, swaddling the content and protecting the content holder from loss of sales revenues....

NOTES FROM THE NET

Jul 1, 2002

OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN: Mid-May, Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers quit because Napster rejected an offer to be bought by Bertelsmann (the same company that bailed...

NOTES FROM THE NET

Jun 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

Sneaky court rulings: The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in late March, ordered Napster to remain offline until it can comply with an injunction...

BENEFIT CD ORIGINATED IN MOTU USER GROUP

Jun 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

Blue Dove Music, an international, Internet-based group of musicians and recording industry pros, released a collaborative music CD entitled September...

Like a Broken Record

Jun 1, 2002, BY PAUL D. LEHRMAN

Remember the saying, "You sound like a broken record"? It's origin, of course, is from the (first) days of vinyl. Today, of course, that would be considered an artistic choice, but in the days when the preferred mode of music playback was strictly linear, it was highly annoying....

NOTES FROM THE NET

Apr 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

The winds have changed: Instead of Napster continuing to be under the scrutiny of the law, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel is now taking a different...

NOTES FROM THE NET

Mar 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

Unable to keep a good thing down: Napster is back up and running this time in beta form. Close to 20,000 volunteers are beginning to access some 110,000...

BMW Films

Feb 1, 2002, BY BLAIR JACKSON

In the past couple of years, we've gone from surging dotcoms to disappearing dotbombs, and there has never been more uncertainty and confusion about the...

The Internet Media Mix

Feb 1, 2002, BY GARY S. HALL

Three years ago, multimedia on the Web was on a roll. The widespread acceptance of MP3s, combined with faster Internet connections, created an explosion...

Medeski, Martin & Wood

Feb 1, 2002, BY DAVID JOHN FARINELLA

Medeski, Martin & Wood have stood out from the crowd since their debut release, Notes From the Underground, in 1992. The New York City-based jazz/funk...

NOTES FROM THE NET

Feb 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

For months, media giants had been ambiguous as to when their online music subscription services would launch. But in a recent flurry, these services streamed...

NOTES FROM THE NET

Jan 1, 2002, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

It's been two years since the labels first took Napster to court, and after numerous court dates, court injunctions, court reversals and trial periods,...

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