The Classical Cloud (via CultureCrash) — “If I were a music-obsessed teen-ager today, I would probably be revelling in this endless feast, and dismissing the complaints of curmudgeons. No longer would I need to prop a tape recorder next to a transistor radio in order to capture Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony. The thousand-year history of classical music would be mine for the taking. But there is a downside to the glut of virtual product and the attendant plunge of prices. As the composer-arranger Van Dyke Parks has argued, in a recent essay for The Daily Beast, the streaming model favors superstars and conglomerates over workaday musicians and indie outfits. Its façade of infinite variety notwithstanding, it meshes neatly with the winner-take-all economy. And if it ever comes crashing down—streaming services have struggled to turn a profit—hoarding may return to fashion.”
On Scalia’s Aereo Dissent — Devlin Hartline takes a closer look at the dissent from this summer’s Aereo decision and finds it lacking, primarily because it applies case law concerning the reproduction right to a question involving the public performance right.
Book Excerpt: “Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show” — Very interesting look behind the scenes of television production. The book combines an informative look at the art of creating and running a TV show with interviews with showrunners from popular shows.
Google Accord With Harvard Tie Fails Judge’s Smell Test — Another cy pres settlement rejected because money from Google would be funded to institutions it enjoys close relationships with. For an in-depth look at this topic, be sure to read Google and Facebook’s new tactic in the tech wars.
More on How a Fox News Lawsuit Might Impact the Future of News — This week, summary judgment motions from parties became publicly available. The lawsuit pits Fox News against media monitoring service TVEyes, with the former alleging the latter runs a commercial service reproducing and distributing copyrighted content without permission. TVEyes is asserting a fair use defense.
Getty Images sues Microsoft over new online photo tool — “In effect, defendant has turned the entirety of the world’s online images into little more than a vast, unlicensed ‘clip art’ collection for the benefit of those website publishers who implement the Bing Image Widget, all without seeking permission from the owners of copyrights in those images,” said Getty.