Here’s the newest on the entertaining (and potentially important) copyright fight between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey, the artist whose iconic Obama poster riffs off an AP photo. Or rips off an AP photo, depending on your perspective. Fairey, who’s become an Internet cause ce...

Big rock album of 2008: Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida.” Big rock album of 2009: U2’s new “No Line on the Horizon.” Coldplay’s U.S. sales in the first week the album went on sale last June: 721,207. U2’s sales for its first week, which ended yesterday: 483,9...

Call me a crusty skeptic, but I think it’d be hard for entertainers–some of whom are already ostentatiously wealthy–to get Washington to help them out in the best of times. So my gut is that there’s little chance that Congress will pass something called “The Performance...

Those Apple Web ads–intrusive, hard to ignore, but clever and entertaining–I was admiring yesterday? Get ready for a lot more like that. At least the intrusive and hard-to-ignore part. That’s because the Online Publishers Association, one of the Web ad industry’s main trade g...

Are you an American Web surfer who’s bummed out because you can’t see your favorite Madonna videos on YouTube? Then be thankful you don’t live in the U.K., where Google is taking all music videos down over a licensing dispute. Google’s video site is taking down all “pre...

Sometimes Jon Stewart uses his platform to explain new technology, like Twitter or the Kindle, to his audience. And sometimes he uses it for a trenchant media critique. Or, as in the case of last night’s segment on GE’s (GE) CNBC, not so much a critique as a full-fledged evisceration. I&...

YouTube, the world’s biggest video site, and Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest music label, are talking about creating a YouTube Music site. The proposed deal, first reported in The Wall Street Journal and CNET, is in advanced stages. A person familiar with the negotiations say ...

Yesterday I expressed a bit of befuddlement about MegaVideo.com, a Chinese site that cracked comScore’s list of Top 10 video sites in January. Thanks to all the readers who set me straight. It turns out there’s an easy answer for MegaVideo’s popularity: It’s a really good way...

If Amazon’s Kindle is the iPod for books, do we need a Kindle for magazines and newspapers? I’d say no. But publishing heavyweight Hearst disagrees and is going to come out with an e-reader of its own, according to a published report. Fortune says Hearst, which publishes magazines like C...

Remember the great Ticketmaster/Bruce Springsteen controversy of 2009? The one where fans of the Boss said they got screwed by the ticketing company everyone loves to hate? The one that prompted Springsteen himself to complain about Ticketmaster and its proposed acquisition of concert giant Live Nat...