Category: Interviews
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Baptiste: The Emperor Has No Clothes
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Andrew Orlowski
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. When you move from this to nothing, to “everything is free”, that’s not a real economy. Read more at The Register… Read More
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Web 2.0 and feedback loops: a conversation with James Harkin
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Andrew Orlowski
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Don’t judge a book by the title. Especially if the title is something like Cyburbia. James Harkin, who worked with Adam Curtis on The Trap, has produced the first proper full-length critique of Web 2.0 – tracing the daftness back to the cybernetics pioneers of the 1940s. It’s odd that something with so much hype…
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“We’re going to be last to market”: Chris Castle’s battle stories
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Andrew Orlowski
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bullient lawyer Chris Castle has a unique perspective on the Music Wars. A former Sony and A&M executive who “switched sides” to Silicon Valley, then found himself defending the original Napster, which he called one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. His clients range from technology companies to major recording artists. So to…
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Billy Bragg: Why should songwriters starve so others get rich?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Billy Bragg interviewed. With audio, it’s all here.… Read More
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Anti-trust looms over major labels legal blitz
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Andrew Orlowski
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Serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson is embroiled in a legal fight against the recording business – and not for the first time. His MP3Tunes locker service has raised the ire of EMI in a case that continues this week. But isn’t it weird, he asks, how the Big Four divvy up the litigation against music start-ups…
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An interview with Feargal Sharkey
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Andrew Orlowski
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Feargal Sharkey needs little introduction. A chart-topper in his own right, and as the lead singer of one of the greatest pop groups of all time, The Undertones, he subsequently crossed into regulatory and policy work – constantly agitating for musicians, songwriters and performers. At the start of the month he joined British Music Rights,…