As one description of this YouTube video suggests, those of us under 40 may not remember a world where book reports, term papers, and essays were written on typewriters. But I do. My Bar Mitzvah gift was a typewriter, a Smith Corona with a removable ribbon. At that time, removable ribbons were a great innovation. […]
RIP Doug Fieger, leader of 70s pop band The Knack, who died of cancer. The Knack wrote classic power pop tunes combining a gritty edge with a Beatlesque gloss, including classics My Sharona and Good Girls Don’t. Like many teens learning to play guitar in the 70s, I spent far too many hours torturing my parents and […]
Reuters reports that the High Court of Britain has ordered an injunction to be sent via Twitter: Britain’s High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter on Thursday, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous Tweeter who had been impersonating someone. The order will appear for the […]
Have statutory damages become a narcotic that helped to destroy the music industry? As reported elsewhere, file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum was found liable for $675,000 by a jury for copyright infringement of 30 songs. The basis for the damages is the statutory damages provision of the Copyright Act, which permits copyright owners to seek between $750 […]
