Thursday, October 31, 2002

eBay Censors CD-Rs. Security Alert: eBay Prevents Musician from Selling Own CD-Rs "George Ziemann, an independent musician, made an album with his band and like many small operators, he then produced copies of the the album on CD-R and attempted to sell them on the Web. He listed copies on his own Web page, on MP3.COM, on garageband.com, and on eBay. All was going well... until eBay abruptly began to de-list the auctions. Ziemann and his band were the authors, engineers, producers, and publishers of... [The Shifted Librarian] Jenny at the Shifted Librarian comments on the continuing music copyright struggle with the RIAA.  She makes a number of good points on how their actions threaten libraries circulation of digital music. 12:47:06 PM

Caramelo, Chicago, & Cisneros: The Chicago Sun Times has an article on Sandra Cisneros and her new book, Caramelo (Knopf).  The article also focuses on Cisneros' preceptions of Chicago as she is originally from here and the novel takes place in several locations that include Chicago. 10:48:53 AM

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