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Help me choose a cover for my new book, The Piracy Crusade

My new book The Piracy Crusade will be published this December, and I'm incredibly excited to have illustrator and comic journalist Josh Neufeld doing the cover art for me. Josh has now sent me initial sketches outlining a few cover... Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2013 at Aram Sinnreich

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MediaCon Panel with Trevor Pinch & DJ Spooky (audio)

This weekend, I was fortunate to host a keynote discussion between media theorist (and Moog afficionado) Trevor Pinch and DJ/author Paul D. Miller, a/k/a DJ Spooky. It was part of an excellent conference called "Extending Play" organized by the doctoral... Continue reading

Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Aram Sinnreich

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Margaret Thatcher's Cultural Legacy

Yesterday, I contributed to an interesting story on Marketplace Radio regarding Margaret Thatcher's musical legacy. There's a lot to say on this subject, but my basic point was that Thatcherism catalyzed the punk movement, which was still largely regional, at... Continue reading

Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Aram Sinnreich

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New album from my band Brave New Girl

My band Brave New Girl has released its first studio album in over a decade, called "Thanks for Being on the Show," under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike 3.0 license. You can stream the entire album for free on SoundCloud: If... Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2013 at Aram Sinnreich

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Aram talks Piracy Crusade at NYU (video)

Last month, I got a chance to give a talk based on my forthcoming book The Piracy Crusade at NYU, as part of the Computer Science department's Computers and Society lecture series. I always love talking to those folks, in... Continue reading

Posted Jan 21, 2013 at Aram Sinnreich

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New Syllabus: Copyright, Culture & Commerce

This semester, I'll be teaching a class called "Copyright, Culture & Commerce" at Rutgers SC&I. I used to teach a very similar course at NYU (which I inherited from Siva Vaidhyanathan), but this is basically a complete reboot. I've built... Continue reading

Posted Jan 17, 2013 at Aram Sinnreich

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Aram talks Piracy Crusade at the New School (video)

I recently gave a guest lecture about my forthcoming book The Piracy Crusade via Google Hangout for Josephine Dorado's classes on internet culture at the New School. Here's the video: Continue reading

Posted Dec 30, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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INET NY Copyright Panel (video)

Two weeks ago, I sat on a panel at INET New York about the "six strikes" Copyright Alert System, the bargain struck between Hollywood and America's major broadband ISPs to identify people suspected of illegally infringing copyrighted content and slowly... Continue reading

Posted Nov 29, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Code vs. Code event (video)

A few weeks ago, I spoke at an event with P2P defense attorney Ray Beckerman on behalf of Ben Kallos' bid for a NYC Council seat. Here's the full video of the event, which covers a fair amount of copyright,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 20, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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KCBS interview: Spotify, Pandora, Royalties, IRFA

There's a lot of talk going on these days about the business model for streaming music, specifically about what fair royalty rates might look like, and how to move the business model forward while compensating everyone fairly. I plan to... Continue reading

Posted Nov 17, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Aram interviewed at iMinds in Belgium (video)

Last week, I went to Ghent, Belgium, to speak at the iMinds conference about creativity and copyright in the digital age. Here's a quick video interview I recorded there: And here's a copy of the presentation I gave: Continue reading

Posted Nov 16, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Presentation for The Piracy Crusade

This week, I'll be giving my first public talks based on The Piracy Crusade, first at Woodbury University and then at NYU. Here's the full presentation -- I welcome your feedback. The Piracy Crusade on Prezi Continue reading

Posted Oct 22, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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"Code v. Code" event, NYC Oct 17, 7 PM

KALLOS FOR COUNCIL PRESENTS Code v. Code Discussion Series: Laws that Hurt Us and Where They Come From 7PM to 9PM, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 Hive at 55, 55 Broad Street, 13th Floor, NY, NY Featuring: Ray Beckerman, Attorney and... Continue reading

Posted Oct 17, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Do global music sales predict the value of the dollar?

For the past few months I've been hard at work on my new book, The Piracy Crusade. Last week I finished up a chapter in which I review the many complex and intersecting economic factors that contributed to the music... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Audio and Slides of My "End of Forgetting" Lecture at ICA 2012

Two weeks ago, I headed to the annual ICA conference to present two papers. Here's the slide show and audio for one of them -- an article I coauthored with Jonah Bossewitch called "The end of forgetting: Strategic agency beyond... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Larry Gross on why Communication & Media Studies matter

My dad recently confessed to me that, even after reading 1-1/2 of my books and following my career for 15 years, he has "no idea" what my work or my field is about (my historian sister and law student brother... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Moscow Panel: "Culture: Create or Copy" [video]

Last month, I returned to Moscow to speak at Google's Big Tent Event. My panel, which was entitled "Culture: Create or Copy," was focused on the question of whether configurable cultural practices like memes, mashups and remixes are legitimate and... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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My new book project: PiracyCrusade.com

My new book project, loosely based on my LimeWire expert testimony, is called "The Piracy Crusade." Although it will be published as a paper book next year by University of Massachusetts Press, I'm also publishing draft chapters as I write... Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Someone needed to do this, and for once, I seem to have beaten the internet to the punch... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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New article: "Welcome to Alphaville, Avoid the Ghetto"

Truthdig.com just published my new article, "Welcome to Alphaville, Avoid the Ghetto." It's about what happens when smartphones turn our entire life into a giant search engine, and then selectively hide the results without telling us. ...The world we see... Continue reading

Posted Jan 13, 2012 at Aram Sinnreich

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Video of "Beyond the Internet" panel

Last night, I was was fortunate to host an excellent panel on Internet freedom, cyberliberties, mesh networking, and next-gen networks at Rutgers University, with Laura DeNardis, Jonathan Baldwin, Michael Potter, Josh King, and my colleague, Aaron Trammell. ISOC-NY generously offered... Continue reading

Posted Nov 17, 2011 at Aram Sinnreich

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Happy American Censorship Day

Today, in honor of American Censorship Day, I've replaced my standard banner with a cheerful black bar. I do this as a form of protest against the spirit of censorship pervading the regulation of the Internet and other communications platforms... Continue reading

Posted Nov 16, 2011 at Aram Sinnreich

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"Beyond the Internet" event at Rutgers tomorrow

Tomorrow, I'll be hosting an event at Rutgers called "Beyond the Internet." It continues the themes I've been working on with the MondoNet project, surrounding the potential of new and emerging platforms (e.g. ad hoc, wireless mesh networks) to provide... Continue reading

Posted Nov 15, 2011 at Aram Sinnreich

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R.I.P. Steve Jobs [Video]

A few weeks ago, Reuters TV called me up to record a segment for their Steve Jobs obituary. It's the first time I've ever been asked to eulogize someone who was still living, and I found that task, plus the... Continue reading

Posted Oct 5, 2011 at Aram Sinnreich

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Peter Maass lecture at Rutgers SC&I on Oct 3rd

I've somehow bamboozled my friend Peter Maass, the deservedly award-winning war correspondent and nonfiction author, to come give a talk at Rutgers in two weeks. I can't wait. Peter embodies that rare combination of intelligence, experience and humillity that makes... Continue reading

Posted Sep 21, 2011 at Aram Sinnreich

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