FMC Grokster Panel, Blogged

Reporting in from the Grokster panel at the FMC's Future of Music Policy Summit are:

• Andrew Raff


• Derek Slater: "[T]he discussion was unusually tame."


• Herkko Hietanen


• Glenn/Coolfer

Sound Policy With Bob Wyman

I've had some fascinating conversations with PubSub's co-founder and CTO Bob Wyman in the last year about copyright and syndication. The most recent is now up at IT Conversations as an interview for my Sound Policy show.

Derek On The Spot

Derek Slater is blogging (at PaidContent; here are his first few posts) and podcasting the Future of Music Policy Summit going on right now in D.C. Thanks Derek!

Also see Eric Olsen at Blogcritics.

Week Linques

Tulane grad Dave Winer's September 6 podcast is one of his best, one of the best.

Thanks to Lisa Rein, I heard the 60 Minutes segment with Ray Nagin: "Man, I don't wanna hear any of that." Him, you do.

slight clutter has poignant, painful, and beautiful post-Katrina Astrodome pictures at Flickr. Here too are the Hurricane Katrina pool and tag.

Roger McGuinn of the Byrds has some illuminating comments about the impact of technology and networked distribution on the economics of music, on Episode 21 of this WEEK in TECH.

Reading and engrossed in:

• The Search: "In essence, we have taken much of our once-ephemeral and quotidian lives—our daily habits of whom we talk to, what we look for, what we buy—and made those actions eternal." Reminds me, my colleagues Stephanie Mendelsohn and Kerry Kearney have a webinar addressing email, IM, and persistence on September 14, should be good.


• The Singularity is Near.

Sampling Law Redux

The cover story of the Los Angeles Lawyer this month will be of interest to music and podcasting enthusiasts alike. It's available as a PDF, and is called "Sample This!" From the author's press release: "In the article, Astride Howell dispels the famed '30 second rule' of 'borrowing' hit songs, expands on the new trend of mashing–mixing two or more records together to make completely new song, and clearly sets out the legal benchmarks for those wishing to undertake sampling in the future."