Borrowed Time: Musical Debt in the Sampling Era Recently, a British DJ named Martyn Webster concluded a crowdfunding campaign that saw him hand over £24,000 ($36,500) to Richard [...] By James Hendicott | May 18, 2016 | Culture, Ethics, Law | Ableton, Amen Break, Copyright, DJing, Eric Osterberg, Garage Band, Hip-Hop, Infringement, Jungle, Kanye West, Liam Howlett, Logic Pro, music, Originality, Sampling, The Prodigy, The Weeknd, The Winstons Read more
For the Record, Spotify isn’t so Groovy When Taylor Swift—arguably the world’s biggest pop star—went on a personal crusade against Spotify recently, you could have been forgiven [...] By James Hendicott | February 17, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Posts | Apple Music, botnets, CDs, Delorentos, downloads, Gene Simmons, iTunes, Jape, Jay-Z, John Cage, mp3s, music, Peter Fillmore, Rick Astley, Sleepify, Spotify, streaming, Taylor Swift, The Gloaming, Tidal, vinyl, William Bedell, YouTube Read more
As Ad Blockers Rise, Online Journalism Falls If you use ad-blocking software, those bits of code that prevent advertisements from appearing on your browser as you surf [...] By James Hendicott | October 12, 2015 | Journalism, Media | Ad Blockers, Advertising, Apple, Ars Technica, Journalism, Newspapers, Patreon Read more
