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How will the Music Modernization Act help musicians?
The new MMA simplifies streaming payments for songwriters, older recorded music and producers.
And how does the music industry loses $2.65 billion a year from coffee shops?
When the owners use their personal streaming accounts to provide the music in the shop instead of licensing it for public performance.
How Did Russian Trolls Promote Controversy over Star Wars: The Last Jedi?
By stirring up political controversy over Episode 8. An academic paper by Morten Bay at University of Southern California finds that 50% of negative posts about the movie were politically motivated, many of which may have been posted by bots.
What happens when your university hires one fo the best reporters of her generation as a faculty member?
So University of Maryland at College Park hired Dana Priest to teach reporting classes. If you don’t recognize her name, you should. She’s a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Washington Post. She won them for reporting on the abuse of prisoners at black site prisons and for poor treatment of soldiers returning from war at Walter Reed Hospital. And when the University of Maryland’s Office of Strategic Communication launched a new marketing site disguised as a news site, Priest’s students were on it. Moral of the Story: If you are lucky enough to hire a brilliant journalist as a prof, don’t try to do anything skanky. You will be found out. (And I am so jealous of Maryland students getting to take classes from Priest!)

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