Archive for February, 2008

Zipcar Makes the Leap (Fast Company Magazine)

Friday, February 29th, 2008
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Artists to music labels: Where’s our Napster money? (CNET)

Friday, February 29th, 2008
Napster and Kazaa were forced to pay record companies $370 million, but some artists wonder when the money will trickle down to them.

RIAA Lawsuits Not Yielding Artist Payments Yet (WebProNews)

Friday, February 29th, 2008
Despite collecting millions in settlements with online music services accused of enabling music piracy, the RIAA's artists may not be seeing the paydays they imagined. read more

RIAA penalty charges don’t make it to the artists (The Inquirer)

Friday, February 29th, 2008
ARTISTE MANAGERS are gearing up for a right old scrap with their tight-fisted music Uberlords, ito discover just when their poor prodigies can expect to get paid their dues after the RIAA got settlement agreements, estimated at about $400 million, with the big P2P companies.

Rock stars threaten labels on copyright cash (News Interactive)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
SOME of the biggest names in music have not seen any money from copyright-infringement settlements and could sue.

Music Artist Getting Fed Up With RIAA (Overclockers Club)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Sources say the music industry's artist are getting fed up with the RIAA not sharing the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars collected in settlements with music services like KaZaA, Napster, Bolt, and considering lawsuits. According to a report from TorrentFreak there probably is not much money left after legal fees are deducted from the original settlements. The labels claimed that the ...

RIAA Not Sharing Settlement Money With Artists (Slashdot)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Klatoo55 writes "Various artists are considering lawsuits in order to press for their share of the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars the RIAA has obtained from settlements with services such as Bolt, KaZaA, and Napster. According to TorrentFreak's report on the potential action, there may not even be much left to pay out after monstrous legal fees are taken care of. The comments from the ...

Review: Sony Walkman NWZ-A818 portable media player (infoSyncWorld)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Sony's 8GB Walkman takes square aim at the iPod nano with its small profile and price tag. Is it an iPod killer or bargain bin fodder?

Review: Sony Walkman NWZ-S615F portable media player (infoSyncWorld)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
This tiny PMP fit in the palm of our hand and promised video, audio, photo and FM radio playback. Did the versatile little player stand up?

Witness school history (Loyola Maroon)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
In the eyes of students, the only bad thing about the Loyola Hall of Fame ceremonies is that we were either in grade school or not yet born when the inductees were shooting, racing, pitching or spiking their way into the history books. Unless you spend your free mornings going through crumbling sports scrapbooks, students don't have the time to soak in what the new Hall of Famers accomplished ...