First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren

Jeremy Piller and I discuss the Intellectual Property Protection Act and some other copyright issues. He shares the history of folk music and how it wouldn’t exist with copyright protection.

Links mentioned:
• Peace Coffee
• Jib Jab, copyright vs political satire at Reason Magazine
• NYTimes: Does a Free Download Equal a Lost Sale?
• Public Knowledge Reacts to Senate Passage of Copyright Legislation
• Cocoa-Karma: The Very Secret Battle of Bob Kolody vs. Coca-Cola
• Pentatonic Scale
• The Problem with Music by Steve Albini
• Creative Commons
• BloggerCon III’s Election 2004 Session

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St. Paul, MN, the feel of Europe without the pain of a poor exchange rate and a review of Steffanie Mueller’s Deutsche fur Anfanger podcast.

Intro: Christopher Mark Brooder from CMBDG.

Listen to Europe for Beginners [11 min]

An iChat conversation with Christopher Mark Brooder from CMBDG.com covering high-end audio video equipment and the Minnesota-based Wheels Of Italy group.

Intro: Bill Boulger from IndieTickets.com.

Listen to the Wheels of Italy [16 min]

A rant on the inherent conflicts between advertisers, traditional media publishers, and the new participatory media.

Intro: PodCat from Podcat’s Best of Podcasting.

Listen to Advertising is Broken [13 min]

A conversation with Bill Boulger of IndieTickets.com about the Minneapolis music scene, and the bankruptcy of First Avenue.

Listen to Upcoming Shows with Bill Boulger [19 min]

This weekend, local documentarian Chuck Olsen kicked off this year’s City Pages Get Real Documentary Film Festival at Oak Street Theatre with Blogumentary.

Intro: Tod Maffin & Sean from I Love Radio.

Listen to Blogumentary, Democratic Strategies for 2008, and the Joys of non-English Podcasts [21 min]