Wired News reports that the recording industry is discovering that the present copyright regime limits as well as empowers its ability to control the music business. It seems that the ineligibility of interactive online music services (i.e. webcasters) for less expensive, pre-determined compulsory licenses from music publishers are putting a damper on some record companies […]
Category Archives: Commentary Unbound
Dean Kamen: Inventor, Iconoclast
16 March 2001 – 8:54 pm
After reading this piece about Dean Kamen in the Christian Science Monitor I’ve decided that it doesn’t really matter to me what Ginger turns out to be: Mr. Kamen is one cool guy. For example, he has apparently seceded from the Union (and done so with great style): He’s even bought his own island, North […]
Better Than Television
16 March 2001 – 8:28 pm
Actually, since I rarely watch television I can’t say whether this story is really better, but it’s undoubtedly entertaining. The story is that Larry Stevenson is “absolutely serious” about buying back Chapters, Inc. according to this article that appeared recently on the Globe and Mail website. And, as usual Mr. Stevenson and Ms. Reisman are […]
Szasz on Government “School-Prisons”
In a recent commentary for the L.A. Times Thomas Szasz, a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Suny in Syracuse, argues that government schools have become prisons established for the purpose of controlling their inmates rather than educating them. He is certainly not the only person making this point, and with many schools — attendance at […]