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Alan Cross
Personal blog · ajournalofmusicalthings.comculture
Alan Cross's personal blog at ajournalofmusicalthings.com covers culture. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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HN readers link Alan Cross's music blog, which covers music history and industry topics such as hidden recordings, Canadian content rules, music copyright, and sales of artist catalogs. Commenters cite its posts as background.
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Alan Cross' music blog - A Journal of Musical Things. Filtering what is happening in music to save you time, money and effort.
What Hacker News says?
It's newer, not executable code, and not stored on analog media, but this made me think of the Information Society track "300bps N, 8, 1". It's a recording of a modem. I remember wiring an RJ-11 jack onto some alligator clips to play it into my modem. Background: https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-greatest-hidden-...
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on “35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]”Submitted The new visa fees for foreign artists are out. This is not good as a story · 62 points
HN discussionThere's an episode of [0] The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 702: A Brief(ish) History of CanCon, where they cover the [1] Broadcasting Act of Canada, which says TV & Radio need to be a certain % "Canadian". In general (at least from this and other things I've heard) CanCon was a big win for Canadian artists. [0] https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ongoing-history-new-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
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on “Bill C-10 would require YouTube, other platforms to recommend Canadian content”Submitted Vinyl will outsell CDs in the US as early as this year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt does nothing unless a prosecutor files criminal charges, which according to this law stackexchange post[0] has never happened for fake DMCA takedowns. A federal prosecutor would enforce it, if they actually cared (they don’t). So we ended up with a system where large companies can spray and pray DMCA claims all over the internet with no consequences for inaccuracy. This results in absurd situations like Warner Br…
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on “The image they claimed was theirs is a photo of me. That I took of myself”Submitted Copyright Laws Force Release of 59 Beatles Songs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt will definitely end up in the courts. This* is a list of artists that have sold the rights to their music catalog. If Sony, who spent $200m on Bob Dylan's master recordings, sets up servers, pays developers, and creates a network using only Dylan recordings they have the rights to, can they copyright newly generated songs? I bet we will find out soon. https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/heres-a-running-list...
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on “US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art”Submitted More proof that pop songs are getting slower and sadder (2019) as a story · 1 points
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