Tuesday, September 03, 2002

More from Billboard -- more artists being rewarded to incentivize their creative efforts: Ronettes Royalties Case Presses On The Ronettes -- led by Phil Spector's then-wife Ronnie Spector -- recorded 28 songs for Spector from 1963 to 1967. Under a 1963 contract, they received a one-time payment of $14,482. But group members contend that the contract didn't cover the royalties for Ronettes songs used in movies, TV shows, and advertising. The Ronettes' big hit, "Be My Baby," was featured in the movie "Dirty Dancing." 9:56:16 PM    comment []

Delayed retirement here to stay [Christian Science Monitor] 9:24:17 PM    comment []

Joel Spolsky writes about Platforms. Makes some really important points, and picks on Groove (with cause, I think). Then, Ray Ozzie replies. [Joel on Software] 9:21:58 PM    comment []

Dave reports John Robb put together a list of what he calls Professional News Feeds. [Scripting News] 9:15:01 PM    comment []

Zeppelin Denied Copyright For 'Houses Of The Holy' (Billboard) The Copyright Office says it returned the copyright to Atlantic because the recording's registration lists it as a work made for hire. The album predates the current Copyright Act of 1976, and therefore falls under the rules of the Copyright Act of 1909. The earlier law did not delineate categories of works made for hire; the Copyright Office's decision was therefore based solely on the registration description provided by Atlantic. Categories of works made for hire were outlined in the updated 1976 Copyright Act. [ . . . ] The surviving members of Led Zeppelin and the wife of the late John Bonham applied for the renewal in December 2001. Due to postal impediments following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Copyright Office didn't process the request for renewal for five months, and issued the judgment May 31. The story says that the label and Led Zep lawyers are expected to negotiate. Or maybe Mary Bono or Hilary Rosen can fix everything? 8:54:06 PM    comment []

Peter Suber has a nifty weblog on ''free online scholarship''. It pointed yesterday at a Charlston Advisor piece, by Donald Beagle, Visualizing the Digital Commons. Beagle considers the claim of Gene Levy, Provost at Rice University, that the concept of a ''browseable stack'' as the essence of a library, still defended by many faculty, is an intellectual fallacy as the online environment provides better discovery tools and is more effective than serendipity in the stacks. I think we must be very careful to distinguish our current crop of online tools, which remain essentially search-and-retrieval tools, from true "discovery tools." 1:55:02 PM    comment []

More on the war games, from the "Military Matters" column in the STL Post-Dispatch: Winning at war games depends on who does best at following the script. By Harry Levins. 12:54:51 PM    comment []