Critical Theories in Education
From The Journal News (Westchester County, NY): File-share plaintiff plans own defense The soccer mom who has become the face of the recording industry’s lawsuits against alleged online music pirates has decided to act as her own lawyer after racking up more than $20,000 in legal fees in her ongoing fight with several record companies. […]
From the fine folks at The Onion RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs November 30, 2005 | Issue 41•48 LOS ANGELES—The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. “We are merely exercising our right […]
Grokster, the popular file sharing service, shut down last week, five months after the US Supreme Court ruled against it in MGM v. Grokster. Nearly 20,000 file-sharers have been targeted for legal action since 2003. And BBC reports the global recording industry has launched its largest wave of legal action against people suspected of sharing […]
Lots and lot’s of new tunes in the air. I don’t listen to the radio anymore (except when I’m in Alberta, when I tune to CKUA or in Louisville, KY (WFKP, two great stations both of which are available online). Here’s what’s been playing most frequently at home, in the car, and on the iPod… […]
Support the Teachers Demo @ UBC! UBC Faculty, Staff, Students will demonstrate in support of striking BC teachers When: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 9:00am Where: WEST MALL & MEMORIAL ROAD [On the “grassy knoll” just east of the Asian Centre; immediately below the Music Building.] This is a Vancouver School Site (The University Transition Program) and […]
The Globe and Mail: BC teachers strike; parents told to keep children home More than half a million British Columbia public school students were asked to stay home Friday after the province’s teachers launched a wildcat strike to protest government plans to impose a two-year contract on them. What can they do to 40,000 teachers; […]
P2Pnet.net reports that Tanya Andersen, a disabled mom of an 8 year old daughter, is going to sue the Recording Industry Association of American using the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, which has been used to prosecute the Mafioso and related organizations, like US insurance companies, moving companies, etc. Now, in what could be […]
Listen to “George Doesn’t Like Black People” Watch the video here. And here’s Black Latern’s video of the tune And Check out the latest patriotic posters from WhiteHouse.org: “Brownie you’re doing a heck of job” and “Let them fly coach” Kelefa Sanneh in the The New York Times Rapping for a hometown in hurricane crisis: […]
The Times of London ran this column by Ray Davies. Davies, who was the lead singer for the The Kinks, describes his experience getting shot in NOLA, his indebtedness to the music of New Orleans and the American South, and asks “How can the USA be expected to look after the whole world when it […]
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown died in his hometown Orange, Texas yesterday, where he had been evacuated after Katrina destroyed his home in Slidell, Louisiana. (Brown was suffering from lung cancer.) Brown refused the “bluesman” moniker and preferred to be known as someone who played “American music” (the kind of music The Blasters sang about). The Gate […]
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