The Boss: A Lifetime of Music
Del Bryant is the chief executive of Broadcast Music Inc. in New York.

Letters: Lessons in the Lyrics
To the Editor:.

Auto Review: 2009 Lincoln MKS AWD
The 2009 Lincoln MKS will appeal to traditional, older Lincoln customers. But instead of taking the segment forward, one song came to mind repeatedly during our drives in the MKS: The Carpenters’ “It’s Yesterday Once More.”

Letters: Lessons in the Lyrics
To the Editor:.

Music sales for 2008 ride digital coattails
Industry tracker Nielsen says total music sales were up 10 percent year over year, with strong growth in the digital realm. Also: a comeback of sorts for vinyl.

Auto Review: 2009 Lincoln MKS AWD
The 2009 Lincoln MKS will appeal to traditional, older Lincoln customers. But instead of taking the segment forward, one song came to mind repeatedly during our drives in the MKS: The Carpenters’ “It’s Yesterday Once More.”

Users of Zune MP3 players report glitch
Baffled consumers are griping about a mysterious glitch that appeared to cause thousands of Zune MP3 music players to simultaneously stop working late Tuesday and early Wednesday.

Music tech predictions for 2009
Yes, Virginia, there will be a Zune phone. Sort of. As well as a $99 iPhone. And a touch-screen Walkman MP3 player from Sony.

Music tech predictions for 2009
Yes, Virginia, there will be a Zune phone. Sort of. As well as a $99 iPhone. And a touch-screen Walkman MP3 player from Sony.

Music tech predictions for 2009
Yes, Virginia, there will be a Zune phone. Sort of. As well as a $99 iPhone. And a touch-screen Walkman MP3 player from Sony.

Auto Review: 2009 Lincoln MKS AWD
The 2009 Lincoln MKS will appeal to traditional, older Lincoln customers. But instead of taking the segment forward, one song came to mind repeatedly during our drives in the MKS: The Carpenters’ “It’s Yesterday Once More.”

Auto Review: 2009 Lincoln MKS AWD
The 2009 Lincoln MKS will appeal to traditional, older Lincoln customers. But instead of taking the segment forward, one song came to mind repeatedly during our drives in the MKS: The Carpenters’ “It’s Yesterday Once More.”

Auto Review: 2009 Lincoln MKS AWD
The 2009 Lincoln MKS will appeal to traditional, older Lincoln customers. But instead of taking the segment forward, one song came to mind repeatedly during our drives in the MKS: The Carpenters’ “It’s Yesterday Once More.”

Outdated Copyright Laws Need a Do Over
I wrote a post the other day criticizing the RIAA for failing to understand 21st marketing techniques. The night I wrote the RIAA post, I listened to an interview on Fresh Air with author and Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who recently published a book called Remix, and he articulated many of the ideas I was trying to convey in my post. There is a bright line of ownership, Lessig says. We can not simply share a song with 10,000 people on a P2P network, but we should be able to use that song in a non-commercial creative work without fear of incurring the wrath of the RIAA (and other…

RNC Hopeful Distributed Racist Parody
The chairman of the Republican National Committee on Saturday admonished one of his potential successors for giving members a CD featuring a song called “Barack the Magic Negro.”

Outdated Copyright Laws Need a Do Over
I wrote a post the other day criticizing the RIAA for failing to understand 21st marketing techniques. The night I wrote the RIAA post, I listened to an interview on Fresh Air with author and Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who recently published a book called Remix, and he articulated many of the ideas I was trying to convey in my post. There is a bright line of ownership, Lessig says. We can not simply share a song with 10,000 people on a P2P network, but we should be able to use that song in a non-commercial creative work without fear of incurring the wrath of the RIAA (and other…