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RIAA, Senators Blast Nations Lax on Piracy
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All About Jazz
Canada, China, Mexico, Russia and Spain have been named the “top- priority countries" with inadequate intellectual property enforcement by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who co- chair the Intl. Anti-Piracy Caucus, as well as Reps. Adam Schiff (D- Calif.) and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).
They were joined Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill by Recording Industry Assn. of America chairman-CEO Mitch Bainwol at a news conference designed to underscore the proliferation of illegal commerce of copyrighted works, which they ...
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Paintings by Picasso, Matisse Stolen in Paris
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Michael Ricci
A lone thief stole five paintings possibly worth hundreds of millions of euros, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist at a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said Thursday.
The paintings disappeared early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower. Investigators have cordoned off the museum, in one of the French capital's most tourist-frequented neighborhoods. The museum's security system was disabled, and a single ...
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Jazz Artist Boney James Grammy-Nominated Saxophonist Struck by Suspected Drunken Driver
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All About Jazz
Publicists for Boney James say the Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist has canceled a show after being struck by a suspected drunken driver in Long Beach.
They say James was driving home from a jazz festival in Newport Beach on Saturday when his car was rear-ended while he was stopped in traffic on Interstate 405. He suffered a fractured jaw, two broken teeth and a gash on his chin that needed 14 stitches.
Passers-by pulled him from the car. He has been ...
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Can the Pompidou Center Revive a Fading French Town?
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All About Jazz
The French, say historians, prefer revolutions to reform. And in the cloistered world of French art museums, a small revolution erupted last week when the prestigious Pompidou Center opened France's first offshoot museum on home soil, in the small industrial town of Metz.
In a country where culture, wealth and power are overwhelmingly concentrated in the capital, officials are hailing the new museum as a break from the past as much about politics as the paintings inside. Opening the building ...
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Copyright Lawsuits Plummet in Aftermath of RIAA Campaign
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All About Jazz
New federal copyright infringement lawsuits plummeted to a six- year low in 2009, the year after the Recording Industry Association of America abandoned its litigation campaign against file sharers, court records show.
Copyright lawsuits numbered 2,192 in 2009, down almost a third from the previous year, and represented more than a 50 percent drop from 2005, when the recording industry's legal machinery was in full gear. The RIAA Bump? U.S. copyright cases more than doubled amid the recording industry's litigation ...
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Jazz is Dead. Long Live Jazz!
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All About Jazz
The music may never again be a popular force, but it is still swinging if you know where to listen.
Put yourself in this jazz musician's shoes for a minute. Your record label just dropped two of its most acclaimed acts from the roster in order to aggressively pursue pop artists. Still, you think you have a sound that's relevant to the moment and to prove it, you need a stay of execution from what's starting to look inevitable.
So ...
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"Fever" Singer Peggy Lee is Hot Again
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All About Jazz
Perhaps best known for her smooth, sultry 1958 cover of the rhythm-and-blues hit “Fever," Peggy Lee has returned to the “Billboard" Top 200 album chart hit for the first time since 1970. Lee died in 2002. Music buyers still have the fever for Peggy Lee.
Perhaps best known for her smooth, sultry 1958 cover of the rhythm-and-blues hit “Fever," the late pop-jazz singer, songwriter and actress has returned to the “Billboard" Top 200 album chart hit for the first time ...
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Interview: Greg Kot of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (Part 3)
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HypeBot
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor-- (@kbylin) -- Part 1 & Part 2
Recently, I spoke with Greg Kot (again), who is the author of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (now in paperback and still amazing!), a rock critic at The Chicago Tribune and co-host of the popular radio show Sound Opinions. In this interview, Greg talks about escapism and popular music,the anti-capitalism argument, and the role of creative professionals in society.
It seems like, that ...
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