Lead pollution and the collusion of industry and government that sustains it are too dangerous to ignore. It's collusion between government and industry that makes possible the unnecessary maiming and killing of children by the millions.
Outside the Jacob Javits Convention Center, it was another scorching day in Manhattan. Inside, an estimated 36,000 editors, booksellers, authors, journalists, and publicists would soon be commingling. Welcome to Book Expo America, the publishing industry's annual romp, where the written word is the most desirable commodity on earth.
YouLicense has created a marketplace for those in the music industry to license their work. As a musician, writer, or singer you can put your content on YouLicense and make it available for use by others. As someone looking for music to use, YouLicense offers a variety of ways in which to find what your looking for.
In an effort to change the rules of the music industry, YouLicense enables artists and those seeking musical content to conduct business directly without the need to deal with music companies.
Sony UK introduced a blogging initiative in an effort to dispose of unsolicited physical material being sent to their labels. The second largest music company in the world is set to jump on the massive blogging trend and encourage fledgling artists to submit their material digitally in a free and open networking environment.
Record labels are coming to grips with the loss of the album as their main product and chief moneymaker.
When the music business became the music industry, something died. The times are changing.
The day he got home from the Army 37 years ago was the day Angelo Bruno got a job as a painter at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant. He's been proud of his career -- until now.
Cambridge-educated economist-... (Pink Floyd, The Clash, Ian Dury And The Blockheads, Billy Bragg) Peter Jenner put a figure on how much each music fan who buys music would have to pay in order for access to every song ever recorded while maintaining or increasing music sales.
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Nimbit CEO Patrick Faucher explains why the big labels need to rethink their changing role in light of tech-driven shifts.
In a time when many artists and most record companies are insistent on DRM and a feeling of overall lock-down in usage rights for their music in hopes of stopping piracy in the digital age, Nine Inch Nails seems perfectly happy to go in the other direction...
Officials from British trade association ELSPA have welcomed a speech by Prime Minister Tony Blair, which indirectly praises the British games industry and its contribution to culture and business.
Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money.
IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other tech companies are increasingly betting that the health care industry will help them grow as their traditional markets mature.
Cracking down on college students, the music industry is sending thousands more complaints to top universities this school year than it did last year as it targets music illegally downloaded over campus computer networks.
Patriots beware: Coming your way soon, 'The Hijacking of America'. The total Hijacking of America is happening without the firing of a single shot and seems to have been perfected by a nondescript, 77-year-old, Canadian-born diplomat called Maurice Strong.
Greenhouse gases widely blamed for causing global warming have jumped to record highs in the atmosphere, apparently stoked by rising emissions from Asian industry, a researcher said on Friday.
A prominent Cleveland Clinic cardiologist on Tuesday accused the Food and Drug Administration of making inappropriate concessions to the pharmaceutical industry that put dangerous drugs on the market and let sales continue after safety questions were raised.
Livestock herds are becoming million-dollar pharmaceutical incubators. Your next prescription may come from a chicken or a goat.
Collectively, independent record labels are a sleeping giant waking up and demanding its due. Think many Davids versus a few Goliaths.
Online retailer DVD Empire has quit selling games, blaming slim margins, selfish publishers, slow distribution and "the fact that 80% of games are crap".
Ethanol use soared in 2006 and as more of the biofuel comes onto the market this year, gasoline prices for consumers could drop, a U.S. oil industry lobbying group said on Friday.
In a nutshell: DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights and selling them back to you.
On cell phones, peer to peer networks, individuality, iTunes and the $3 ring tone...
Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage By Charles Fine

The rationale behind studying fruit flies instead of studying humans themselves is that fruit flies have much shorter life and this makes study of the changes easier.
Assessments and opinions of Vista Beta 2 suggest that a third beta is required before release candidate 1 comes out, which is the last major step before commercial launch.








