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The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. Poet, MC, and orator extraordinaire Saul Williams presents his new album with NIN’s Trent Reznor using Radiohead’s “pay as you please” compensation model. (Williams requests a $5.00 donation, payable through credit card or PayPal.) Learning from some of the complaints Radiohead fans registered, however, Williams presents his new album in high quality compressed (192- and 320 kbps MP3) and uncompressed (FLAC lossless) audio formats. Categories: File Sharing, P2P & Downloads; Music. (Attribution: Punknews.org)

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States. Cornell’s Peter Hirtle updates his copyright term chart. Categories: Public Domain & Term; Research.

The AudioFile: Analog-to-Digital Conversion. Ars Technica’s Thomas Wilburn publishes the third installation in a series (part 1, part 2) about digital audio, including formats, conversion, and compression. Categories: Music.

The Writer’s Strike: Why We Fight. A YouTube video produced by United Hollywood on the residual royalty structure in television and its relation to the current writer’s strike. Categories: Broadcasting & Journalism.

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