Ownage?: AP tries to decide what is fair use for bloggers

In several recent blog and news stories (including my favorite headline of the bunch: The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggers), the AP’s stated fair use policy for bloggers is discussed.
And what is the limits of AP’s version of fair use? If a blogger wants to use more than 5 [...]

Metallica’s Mission: Screwing Over Fans?

I have a long history with Metallica, as they were essentially my introduction to the world of metal, along with other young Gen-X metal kids, now grown adults, who watched Headbanger’s Ball on MTV. I was fully devoted all the way up until Load, when suddenly they became a jam band and they never really [...]

Chinese Democracy: Axl Rose and Tibet

Neither the Chinese Democracy involving a change in political process in a vast Asian country nor the Chinese Democracy involving the most expensive never-released album seems to be forthcoming. Yet non-change is presently newsworthy.
The Guns n Roses “forthcoming” album, Chinese Democracy, has been a joke for years. According to a 2006 New York Times [...]