Wednesday, May 26, 2004

"Persons of skill will recognize numerous other embodiments of the invention as presented herein...."

It appears that Clear Channel has claimed a patent on the concept of producing digital recordings of a concert for sale immediately after the concert. Discussed here and here and probably elsewhere.

Seems to me that fans of the Grateful Dead, among others, have been doing this kind of thing for decades. I'm not sure exactly what C.C. is claiming as a novelty here. Considering how much verbiage in the patent is devoted to piously declaiming against evil "bootleggers", and that C.C. is already filing lawsuits to stop bands from recording and selling live CD's of their own concerts as described here, it doesn't look like a good development.

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