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Couple o’ Jiggers o’ iTunes
By Richard Amada on Jul 30, 2009 | In Music
Recorded music sales continue to nosedive, largely as a result of unauthorized digital music file sharing. People just don’t pay for what they can get for free from cyberfriends. And that has been causing the music industry fits. The majority of that… more »
McCain Was “Running on Empty” Without Permission
By Richard Amada on Jul 23, 2009 | In Music
It’s not exactly news that even those who help make the laws sometimes run afoul of them. In this case, it was Senator John McCain, whose presidential campaign employed the Jackson Browne song, “Running on Empty,” in an election campaign ad.
Now, ord… more »
Streaming to the Rescue (of the Music Industry)
By Richard Amada on Jul 20, 2009 | In Music
For a change, there's a bit of positive cyber news for the music industry. The entertainment industry has been crying the blues for years about illegal online downloading and file sharing. But an article in the New York Times seems to suggest that lega… more »
Would It Be Possible to Make the Judge Look Thinner?
By Richard Amada on Jul 15, 2009 | In Visual Arts, Literary
I saw on the news this evening that a courtroom sketch artist has come out with a book of sketches he made while covering noteworthy trials for the TV station he works for. Now there's a concept for a coffee table book that I haven't heard before.
Co… more »
The Artist's Reality (According to Hollywood)
By Richard Amada on Jul 10, 2009 | In Visual Arts, Cinema, TV, Radio
The Bravo cable network has announced it's looking for people who fit the description of an "emerging or mid-career artist with a unique, powerful voice that demands a bigger stage" (which I, in my somewhat jaded view, read as "young, physically attracti… more »
Getaway Car Guy Gets Sentenced in "Scream" Caper
By Richard Amada on Jul 6, 2009 | In Visual Arts
Just in case you were wondering what kind of sentence you could get for providing the getaway car in a fine art heist, a Norwegian court handed down a two-and-a-half year sentence to the man whom the prosecutors in the case said helped procure the car us… more »
Could Thomas Jefferson Have Copyrighted the Declaration of Independence?
By Richard Amada on Jul 3, 2009 | In Literary
As America's birthday rolls around, I'm inclined to ponder: could Thomas Jefferson have copyrighted the Declaration of Independence?
Well, first of all, since the Constitution wasn't ratified for more than a decade later, there was no Article 1, Secti… more »
