ASCAP Attacks Creative Commons, Advocacy Groups as Anti-Copyright, Anti-Artist

Vintage image ( CC-BY-SA ) Ioan Sameli , as licensed by us pinko commies at CDM. An ASCAP fundraising letter revealed last week that the American performing rights organization is invoking fears of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and Creative Commons in order to raise money. ASCAP appears to be repeating, now in the more heated language of fundraising, arguments it has had with the Creative Commons license in the past. [...]

Garth Brooks Receives Award From The President of the United States

President Barack Obama talks with Garth Brooks (right), who was presented with the Grammy on the Hill Award for his leadership in advancing the rights of music makers, in the Oval Office on April 14, 2010. The President was also presented with the 2007 Grammy Award for best spoken word album for his book The Audacity of [...]