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Top: Society: Issues: Intellectual_Property: Music_Freedom:

• - Talks about how the monopoly grants (copyrights) have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
  
• - Fighting to provide freedom of expression in music. Offers a discussion forum, censorship news and contact information.
  
• - Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled.
  
• - Supports the Free Music Philosophy, the idea that all people should have the freedom to copy, distribute, and modify music for personal, noncommercial purposes. FAQ, articles, suggested further reading, links to related sites.
  
• - A collection of essays on the issues surrounding intellectual property and copyright as they relate to music.
  
• - Underground music supporting community web site, featuring news, artists and music.
  
• - Despite hundreds of lawsuits on file sharers from the RIAA and loud cries that P2P networks are all to blame, research at Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill concludes that downloads have zero effect on sales.
  
• - Movement urging webmasters to protest the RIAA.
  
• - A manifesto for musicians who want to make money in the new economy. Asserts that piracy is a phony issue that record labels are hyping in order to rip off artists.
  
• - Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs.
  
• - Non-profit organization promoting a fairer music industry. News, links, and action alerts.
  
• - Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversing audio collage. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
  
• - An international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples. Allowing the general public to sample from MACOS material freely, without incurring any legal ramifications.
  
• - A professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas lists reasons why record industry experts failed to prove their assertion that Napster was gutting industry revenues.
  
• - Organization rebutting arguments of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and writing critiques of the industry lobbyists' attempts to control music sharing and copying. With background information, news, essays, and links.
  
• - As Hollywood wins one court case after another, one Republican senator is suggesting that maybe it's time for some new laws -- that protect consumers instead of entertainment companies.
  
• - A tool that music consumers can use to distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.
  
• - Featuring a dissertation by Anthony McCann focusing on Irish music, copyright, and performing rights.
  
• - A new group criticizes the recording industry for blaming consumers instead of its own failures.
  
• - Updates and forum on RIAA actions.
  
• - Surveys showing that lawsuits have greatly reduced file-sharing may be seriously flawed. By some measures, swaps are actually escalating.
  
• - The RIAA's newest aggressive tactics and legal assault on file swappers is pushing traders to encrypted networks, where file trading will mushroom as well as be untraceable.
  
• - Canadian article by an industry songwriter who examines both sides of the argument and sees file-trading as a consumer revolt and an explicit demand for change.
  
• - Argues that P2P doesn't threaten music, musicmaking or musicians because sales are at all time highs.
  
• - An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't, and he doesn't know why.