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  1. Great analogy in this post by Matt Stoller about the cost of algorithmic #socialmedia feeds:

    [costs] are borne by users and communities, in the form of bullying, sex trafficking, addiction, polarization, shorter attention spans, et al. It’s like pollution, where a company pours chemicals into a river, which doesn’t cost the company anything but does poison entire communities downstream.

    https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-biggest-sexual

    #bigtech #monopolies

  2. Great analogy in this post by Matt Stoller about the cost of algorithmic #socialmedia feeds:

    [costs] are borne by users and communities, in the form of bullying, sex trafficking, addiction, polarization, shorter attention spans, et al. It’s like pollution, where a company pours chemicals into a river, which doesn’t cost the company anything but does poison entire communities downstream.

    https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-biggest-sexual

    #bigtech #monopolies

  3. Great analogy in this post by Matt Stoller about the cost of algorithmic #socialmedia feeds:

    [costs] are borne by users and communities, in the form of bullying, sex trafficking, addiction, polarization, shorter attention spans, et al. It’s like pollution, where a company pours chemicals into a river, which doesn’t cost the company anything but does poison entire communities downstream.

    https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-biggest-sexual

    #bigtech #monopolies

  4. Great analogy in this post by Matt Stoller about the cost of algorithmic #socialmedia feeds:

    [costs] are borne by users and communities, in the form of bullying, sex trafficking, addiction, polarization, shorter attention spans, et al. It’s like pollution, where a company pours chemicals into a river, which doesn’t cost the company anything but does poison entire communities downstream.

    https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-biggest-sexual

    #bigtech #monopolies

  5. ‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ bostonreview.net/articles/to-w

    Or #ai is artificial information processing, generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple

  6. ‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ bostonreview.net/articles/to-w

    Or #ai is artificial information processing, generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple

  7. ‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ bostonreview.net/articles/to-w

    Or #ai is artificial information processing, generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple

  8. ‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ bostonreview.net/articles/to-w

    Or #ai is artificial information processing, generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple

  9. "... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
    pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/maz
    #economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

  10. "... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
    pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/maz
    #economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

  11. "... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
    pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/maz
    #economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

  12. "... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
    pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/maz
    #economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

  13. #Democracy is incompatible with unrestrained #capitalism. #Monopolies powered the #Nazi war machine 85 years ago.

    General public knows that #CorporatePower is a big, rising, and terrifying problem. But regulators don't seem to know what corporate power is.

    On #antitrust, the #EU buckled to #US under both #GeorgeBush (#Microsoft breakup) and #GeorgeWBush (#GE #Honeywell merger).

    Now a new revolt against monopolization is brewing in #Europe.

    #NewCompetitionSchool

    brusselstimes.com/eu-scream-po

  14. #Democracy is incompatible with unrestrained #capitalism. #Monopolies powered the #Nazi war machine 85 years ago.

    General public knows that #CorporatePower is a big, rising, and terrifying problem. But regulators don't seem to know what corporate power is.

    On #antitrust, the #EU buckled to #US under both #GeorgeBush (#Microsoft breakup) and #GeorgeWBush (#GE #Honeywell merger).

    Now a new revolt against monopolization is brewing in #Europe.

    #NewCompetitionSchool

    brusselstimes.com/eu-scream-po

  15. The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
    China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.

    Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.

    thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol

    Read more at: UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler

    #monopolies #oligopoly #competition #antitrust

  16. The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
    China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.

    Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.

    thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol

    Read more at: UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler

    #monopolies #oligopoly #competition #antitrust

  17. The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
    China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.

    Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.

    thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol

    Read more at: UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler

    #monopolies #oligopoly #competition #antitrust

  18. The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
    China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.

    Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.

    thebignewsletter.com/p/monopol

    Read more at: UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler

    #monopolies #oligopoly #competition #antitrust

  19. The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!

    Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.

    What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions

  20. The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!

    Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.

    What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions

  21. The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!

    Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.

    What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions

  22. The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!

    Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.

    What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions

  23. ‘India’s government has intensified its crackdown on monopolistic practices in the tech sector, targeting industry giants such as Apple, Google and Amazon, while also proposing a Digital Competition Bill aimed at curbing foreign dominance and strengthening the domestic market.’

    emerald.com/expert-briefings/a

    Something the US, UK and European courts have failed to do even though 20+ millions of those Nations people died fighting fascists cults in WW2! Antitrust monopolies finance fascist cults in exchange for tax cuts to benefit the ultra wealthy and policies for the hegemonic control of corporate capital. #shameful #monopolies #WW3 #GreedAndPower #MobRule #Philosophy #RightsAbuse #LeadingFromCorruption #Antitrust #CorporateSovereigntyIsEvil #TheRepublicsFederation

  24. ‘India’s government has intensified its crackdown on monopolistic practices in the tech sector, targeting industry giants such as Apple, Google and Amazon, while also proposing a Digital Competition Bill aimed at curbing foreign dominance and strengthening the domestic market.’

    emerald.com/expert-briefings/a

    Something the US, UK and European courts have failed to do even though 20+ millions of those Nations people died fighting fascists cults in WW2! Antitrust monopolies finance fascist cults in exchange for tax cuts to benefit the ultra wealthy and policies for the hegemonic control of corporate capital. #shameful #monopolies #WW3 #GreedAndPower #MobRule #Philosophy #RightsAbuse #LeadingFromCorruption #Antitrust #CorporateSovereigntyIsEvil #TheRepublicsFederation

  25. ‘India’s government has intensified its crackdown on monopolistic practices in the tech sector, targeting industry giants such as Apple, Google and Amazon, while also proposing a Digital Competition Bill aimed at curbing foreign dominance and strengthening the domestic market.’

    emerald.com/expert-briefings/a

    Something the US, UK and European courts have failed to do even though 20+ millions of those Nations people died fighting fascists cults in WW2! Antitrust monopolies finance fascist cults in exchange for tax cuts to benefit the ultra wealthy and policies for the hegemonic control of corporate capital. #shameful #monopolies #WW3 #GreedAndPower #MobRule #Philosophy #RightsAbuse #LeadingFromCorruption #Antitrust #CorporateSovereigntyIsEvil #TheRepublicsFederation

  26. ‘India’s government has intensified its crackdown on monopolistic practices in the tech sector, targeting industry giants such as Apple, Google and Amazon, while also proposing a Digital Competition Bill aimed at curbing foreign dominance and strengthening the domestic market.’

    emerald.com/expert-briefings/a

    Something the US, UK and European courts have failed to do even though 20+ millions of those Nations people died fighting fascists cults in WW2! Antitrust monopolies finance fascist cults in exchange for tax cuts to benefit the ultra wealthy and policies for the hegemonic control of corporate capital. #shameful #monopolies #WW3 #GreedAndPower #MobRule #Philosophy #RightsAbuse #LeadingFromCorruption #Antitrust #CorporateSovereigntyIsEvil #TheRepublicsFederation

  27. @chris @unfa is this still a problem if you run graphene or lineage?

    To any youtuber or play store slave: you are Google's employee, but with no workers rights whatsoever. Google can take away anything and not be accountable.

    #monopolies  #capitalismsucks

  28. @chris @unfa is this still a problem if you run graphene or lineage?

    To any youtuber or play store slave: you are Google's employee, but with no workers rights whatsoever. Google can take away anything and not be accountable.

    #monopolies  #capitalismsucks

  29. @chris @unfa is this still a problem if you run graphene or lineage?

    To any youtuber or play store slave: you are Google's employee, but with no workers rights whatsoever. Google can take away anything and not be accountable.

    #monopolies  #capitalismsucks

  30. @chris @unfa is this still a problem if you run graphene or lineage?

    To any youtuber or play store slave: you are Google's employee, but with no workers rights whatsoever. Google can take away anything and not be accountable.

    #monopolies  #capitalismsucks

  31. The quoted text is the end of Google’s #Ai overview to the OP:

    ‘If you are exploring a specific philosophical paper, book, or argument that ties Hume directly to these geopolitical outcomes, let me know! We can dive deeper into the specific dialectic principles or texts you are examining.’

    but #Ai whether generative or not, is not a ‘me’. Me is self-conscious and #LLMs are not even a framework that can push a template of consciousness. Automated information ground on #IP scraping is just designed to mimic intelligence to control the expropriation of capital! Can it be reconfigured to be in opposition to the antitrust growth in monopolies serving the unsustainable interests in non-renewables? #AiPhilosophy #Antitrust #monopolies #philosophy

  32. The quoted text is the end of Google’s #Ai overview to the OP:

    ‘If you are exploring a specific philosophical paper, book, or argument that ties Hume directly to these geopolitical outcomes, let me know! We can dive deeper into the specific dialectic principles or texts you are examining.’

    but #Ai whether generative or not, is not a ‘me’. Me is self-conscious and #LLMs are not even a framework that can push a template of consciousness. Automated information ground on #IP scraping is just designed to mimic intelligence to control the expropriation of capital! Can it be reconfigured to be in opposition to the antitrust growth in monopolies serving the unsustainable interests in non-renewables? #AiPhilosophy #Antitrust #monopolies #philosophy

  33. The quoted text is the end of Google’s #Ai overview to the OP:

    ‘If you are exploring a specific philosophical paper, book, or argument that ties Hume directly to these geopolitical outcomes, let me know! We can dive deeper into the specific dialectic principles or texts you are examining.’

    but #Ai whether generative or not, is not a ‘me’. Me is self-conscious and #LLMs are not even a framework that can push a template of consciousness. Automated information ground on #IP scraping is just designed to mimic intelligence to control the expropriation of capital! Can it be reconfigured to be in opposition to the antitrust growth in monopolies serving the unsustainable interests in non-renewables? #AiPhilosophy #Antitrust #monopolies #philosophy

  34. The quoted text is the end of Google’s #Ai overview to the OP:

    ‘If you are exploring a specific philosophical paper, book, or argument that ties Hume directly to these geopolitical outcomes, let me know! We can dive deeper into the specific dialectic principles or texts you are examining.’

    but #Ai whether generative or not, is not a ‘me’. Me is self-conscious and #LLMs are not even a framework that can push a template of consciousness. Automated information ground on #IP scraping is just designed to mimic intelligence to control the expropriation of capital! Can it be reconfigured to be in opposition to the antitrust growth in monopolies serving the unsustainable interests in non-renewables? #AiPhilosophy #Antitrust #monopolies #philosophy

  35. Replying to someone else's feed I found this: a short read on how Thomas Edison and his cronies were monopolistic assholes about motion pictures, leading independent film studios to create movie stars and Hollywood.

    #movies #history #monopolies

    cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edis

  36. Replying to someone else's feed I found this: a short read on how Thomas Edison and his cronies were monopolistic assholes about motion pictures, leading independent film studios to create movie stars and Hollywood.

    #movies #history #monopolies

    cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edis

  37. Replying to someone else's feed I found this: a short read on how Thomas Edison and his cronies were monopolistic assholes about motion pictures, leading independent film studios to create movie stars and Hollywood.

    #movies #history #monopolies

    cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edis

  38. Replying to someone else's feed I found this: a short read on how Thomas Edison and his cronies were monopolistic assholes about motion pictures, leading independent film studios to create movie stars and Hollywood.

    #movies #history #monopolies

    cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edis

  39. @sabrinkmann
    #monopolies like the one you mentioned tend to zuck up everything while the #fedi, as I understand it, prefers to #federate and link instead. So, can't an actor provide a clickable, say matrix, handle? Has it to be mandatory? Has it to be a certain protocol? #AP? Or can there be #choice?

    P.S.: auto-discovery via #webfinger / #RFC7033?

  40. @sabrinkmann
    #monopolies like the one you mentioned tend to zuck up everything while the #fedi, as I understand it, prefers to #federate and link instead. So, can't an actor provide a clickable, say matrix, handle? Has it to be mandatory? Has it to be a certain protocol? #AP? Or can there be #choice?

    P.S.: auto-discovery via #webfinger / #RFC7033?

  41. @sabrinkmann
    #monopolies like the one you mentioned tend to zuck up everything while the #fedi, as I understand it, prefers to #federate and link instead. So, can't an actor provide a clickable, say matrix, handle? Has it to be mandatory? Has it to be a certain protocol? #AP? Or can there be #choice?

    P.S.: auto-discovery via #webfinger / #RFC7033?

  42. @sabrinkmann
    #monopolies like the one you mentioned tend to zuck up everything while the #fedi, as I understand it, prefers to #federate and link instead. So, can't an actor provide a clickable, say matrix, handle? Has it to be mandatory? Has it to be a certain protocol? #AP? Or can there be #choice?

    P.S.: auto-discovery via #webfinger / #RFC7033?

  43. @Powerfromspace1 it's called "#Competition instead of #Monopolies", but #Europe has been a little slow to wake up 💤

  44. @Powerfromspace1 it's called "#Competition instead of #Monopolies", but #Europe has been a little slow to wake up 💤

  45. @Powerfromspace1 it's called "#Competition instead of #Monopolies", but #Europe has been a little slow to wake up 💤

  46. @Powerfromspace1 it's called "#Competition instead of #Monopolies", but #Europe has been a little slow to wake up 💤

  47. "Last year, Jenkins published Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture, an Oxford University Press title that fuses her scholarly and popular work in a generalist textbook on the legal framework for music that will forever change how you think about music. Now, a second edition, with a lengthy section on new music litigation, AI copyright fights, and the issue of uncompensated labor is available as an open access download:

    web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccop

    Music Copyright weaves together the economic, cultural, political and artistic history of music, pulling on historic threads ranging from antiquity to medieval Europe to the age of mechanical reproduction to describe changing views of musicians, their audiences, and religious and political leaders on what constituted music, who was allowed to make music, and what music was for. In so doing, she firmly establishes the extremely contingent nature of our present-day norms around music, showing that the "natural" present-day assumptions about who gets paid, who pays, and when payment (or permission) is required are anything but, and are always in flux.

    For obvious reasons, much of Jenkins' text describes these changes in the context of the record, the radio, satellite transmission, P2P file-sharing, and digital sampling (along with a chapter on AI). These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:)"

    pluralistic.net/2026/08/17/gre

    #Copyright #Music #IP #Monopolies #Creativity

  48. "Last year, Jenkins published Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture, an Oxford University Press title that fuses her scholarly and popular work in a generalist textbook on the legal framework for music that will forever change how you think about music. Now, a second edition, with a lengthy section on new music litigation, AI copyright fights, and the issue of uncompensated labor is available as an open access download:

    web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccop

    Music Copyright weaves together the economic, cultural, political and artistic history of music, pulling on historic threads ranging from antiquity to medieval Europe to the age of mechanical reproduction to describe changing views of musicians, their audiences, and religious and political leaders on what constituted music, who was allowed to make music, and what music was for. In so doing, she firmly establishes the extremely contingent nature of our present-day norms around music, showing that the "natural" present-day assumptions about who gets paid, who pays, and when payment (or permission) is required are anything but, and are always in flux.

    For obvious reasons, much of Jenkins' text describes these changes in the context of the record, the radio, satellite transmission, P2P file-sharing, and digital sampling (along with a chapter on AI). These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:)"

    pluralistic.net/2026/08/17/gre

    #Copyright #Music #IP #Monopolies #Creativity

  49. "Last year, Jenkins published Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture, an Oxford University Press title that fuses her scholarly and popular work in a generalist textbook on the legal framework for music that will forever change how you think about music. Now, a second edition, with a lengthy section on new music litigation, AI copyright fights, and the issue of uncompensated labor is available as an open access download:

    web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccop

    Music Copyright weaves together the economic, cultural, political and artistic history of music, pulling on historic threads ranging from antiquity to medieval Europe to the age of mechanical reproduction to describe changing views of musicians, their audiences, and religious and political leaders on what constituted music, who was allowed to make music, and what music was for. In so doing, she firmly establishes the extremely contingent nature of our present-day norms around music, showing that the "natural" present-day assumptions about who gets paid, who pays, and when payment (or permission) is required are anything but, and are always in flux.

    For obvious reasons, much of Jenkins' text describes these changes in the context of the record, the radio, satellite transmission, P2P file-sharing, and digital sampling (along with a chapter on AI). These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:)"

    pluralistic.net/2026/08/17/gre

    #Copyright #Music #IP #Monopolies #Creativity

  50. "Last year, Jenkins published Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture, an Oxford University Press title that fuses her scholarly and popular work in a generalist textbook on the legal framework for music that will forever change how you think about music. Now, a second edition, with a lengthy section on new music litigation, AI copyright fights, and the issue of uncompensated labor is available as an open access download:

    web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccop

    Music Copyright weaves together the economic, cultural, political and artistic history of music, pulling on historic threads ranging from antiquity to medieval Europe to the age of mechanical reproduction to describe changing views of musicians, their audiences, and religious and political leaders on what constituted music, who was allowed to make music, and what music was for. In so doing, she firmly establishes the extremely contingent nature of our present-day norms around music, showing that the "natural" present-day assumptions about who gets paid, who pays, and when payment (or permission) is required are anything but, and are always in flux.

    For obvious reasons, much of Jenkins' text describes these changes in the context of the record, the radio, satellite transmission, P2P file-sharing, and digital sampling (along with a chapter on AI). These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:)"

    pluralistic.net/2026/08/17/gre

    #Copyright #Music #IP #Monopolies #Creativity

  51. Same knee surgery, twice the price: new data expose how hospital monopolies inflate US healthcare costs
    kffhealthnews.org/health-indus
    A federal disclosure rule is offering new insight on the effect of healthcare monopolies on pricing, following a wave of U.S. mergers.
    #wellness #healthcare #monopolies

  52. Same knee surgery, twice the price: new data expose how hospital monopolies inflate US healthcare costs
    kffhealthnews.org/health-indus
    A federal disclosure rule is offering new insight on the effect of healthcare monopolies on pricing, following a wave of U.S. mergers.
    #wellness #healthcare #monopolies