Category Archives: Law: Copyright and DMCA

I want two things relating to Pandora.

1) I want Congress or the courts (or the agency itself on rehearing) to overturn the appalling decision of the Copyright Royalty Board (the CRB) setting an unreasonably high fee for the webcasting statutory license in the United States — that will charge Pandora and other internet radio stations so much for the right to broadcast that it would put them out of business.

[Update: Whoops. Seems the CRB appeal board has already rejected the appeal of its earlier ruling. It's on to the DC Circuit now. And that's sure to be uphill. Join The campaign to save net radio. (Or, maybe, some organization that looks more able to achieve the goal?) Congress, are you listening? ]

2) There ought to be an easy way to create a station based on everyone who's covered a given song using those covers as song seeds. I want a one-click way to use every version of “Louie, Louie” or “Major Tom” as joint song seeds.

I was going to link to Dylan Hears A Who!, which was an amazing, wonderful and awful, so-close-to-Bob Dylan you wondered if it was him performance of Dr. Seuss's classic works including the Cat in the Hat.

I was going to say that the only way you could tell it was a parody is that the real thing isn't quite so monotone (except on the worst parts of Desire) Even so, I think it will change the way I see Dylan — but not Dr. Seuss. But I forgot to post the link last week and it mouldered in some queue.

And now it's gone: