James Frankel recently wrote a book released on Hal Leonard titled “Teachers Guide to Music, Media, and Copyright”. It sparked my interest, as I am a big fan of Larry Lessig and Creative Commons, and …

Today, Twitter did the dumbest thing ever, and took away @Replies from people. Then finally, after the community uproar decided to retract their steps and bring it back.

As a marketing and social media guy specializing …

Ever wanted to get your music into a video game, commercial, or movie?
Some prefer to go through websites that do the Music Publishing for you. Publishing is the idea of getting your music ‘placed’ in …

…Or maybe Napster created the Pirate Star. Either way, people have always stole music and art, but this became a common problem when Napster allowed ‘mass file sharing’. As a result – literally overnight – …

I learned today from Total Format that Sweden is attempting to put an end to piracy – specifically peer-to-peer networks. The editor, Detomah, mentioned how Sweden has a very large piracy community (roughly 8% of …

Attention Musicians: Myspace is slowly dying a slow death. The thing is.. Facebook is slowly reminding me of MySpace.
The problem is that these websites try to be “All things to all people.” But unfortunately, business …

Creative Commons is the new Copyright. I refer to it as Copyright 2.0
Why is this important, well, because my music is licensed Creative Commons which allows people to use my music, mash it up, and …

This video takes advantage of my Creative Commons License! Awesome! Plus the video is pretty cool too. Big Ups to Cash4freeonline for posting this! I’m sure there’s other Youtube mashups, but this one is cool …