Apple today filed its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 1, 2006 and its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (”SEC”). Both filings had been delayed pending the conclusion of an independent investigation by the special committee of the board of directors into past… Read More Apple Tries To Bury Stock Options Controversy
The FCC has proposed a $1 million fine against Behringer USA for apparent violation of the FCC’s equipment authorization rules. The equipment found to be in violation of the FCC rules includes audio processors, equalizers, mic preamps, sample-rate converters, mixers, amplifiers and lighting controllers. The FCC has concluded that Behringer violated its rules by marketing… Read More Proposes Million-Dollar Fine Against Behringer USA
The Mayo Clinic warns that portable music devices put your hearing at risk. “With the older devices, like the Walkman, if you turned them up all the way, they sounded very bad, so people didn’t do it. Now, they don’t sound bad at maximum volume, and that could pose a problem,” says Jodi Cook, Ph.D.,… Read More iPods, MP3 Players Pose Threat to Hearing
It looks like Moby is reopening the white-boy rap / electronica artist feud. A recent post to his online journal, i’d like to write about misogyny, lays the smack-down on The Prodigy and eminem over their use of misogynistic lyrics. “i respect the prodigy and i respect eminem as talented and relevant musicians, but i… Read More Moby Lays Smackdown on Eminem, The Prodigy
Get ready for Sex everywhere. Jessica Vale has announced the upcoming release of The Sex Album. The provocative CD features sounds (with the exception of Vale’s vocals) taken entirely from the recordings of live sex that were manipulated into dark electronic and ambient music. Synthtopia recently interviewed Vale about making The Sex Album. This is… Read More Sex Album Released
Tiger Direct, an online computer retailer, today filed a lawsuit against Apple Computer in the United States District Court for the District of Florida. The suit alleges Apple Computer engaged in trademark infringement and unfair trade practices in connection with its recent marketing campaign for the latest version of its MAC OS X operating system,… Read More Apple Sued Over OS X “Tiger”
While the use of synthesizers has become routine in many types of music, they continue to be controversial when used as a replacement for a traditional orchestra. Kiku Enomoto and her six colleagues at the Opera Company of Brooklyn, members of the local musician’ union, refused to play with the OCB last February when it… Read More Brooklyn Musicians Fight Virtual Orchestras
While the RIAA argues unequivocally that the file-sharing services are hurting musicians, musicians have their own opinions. A new study shows that more musicians feel that file-sharing benefits them than feel that it hurts them. Most musicians feel that the RIAA suits against file-sharing music fans will not benefit either musicians or songwriters. The new… Read More Most Musicians See No Benefit to RIAA Campaign Against File-Sharers
Banned Music is a web project that promotes music activism, especially the non-commercial distribution of works that major record labels have driven underground. The site is one of several that are raising important questions about the role that the law plays in determining what we can experience. The site is a project of Downhill Battle,… Read More Banned Music
Underground remixes are suddenly getting attention all over the Internet. Nothing is hotter than Jay-Z and the Grey Album remix. Some may think this is just another example of people trying to get something for free. Others, however, see this as a type of civil disobedience, and ask why three or four companies should get… Read More Illegal Remixes Rage Through the Internet
