A recent kerfuffle about music sharing, free culture, and direct support of artists began on NPR and ended on TechDirt.<\/p>\n
Last month, Bob Boilen wrote “I Just Deleted All My Music<\/a>” for NPR’s All Songs Considered blog; to which summer intern Emily White\u00a0replied last week “I Never Owned Any Music To Begin With<\/a>“. \u00a0Trichordist’s David Lowery shot off a ranting Letter to Emily White<\/a> that was a viral hit.<\/p>\n Finally, Zac Shaw of mediapocalypse wrote “In Defense of Free Music<\/a>“, an eloquent explanation of Free Culture ideals and commitment to supporting artists.\u00a0And culturist and summation genius Mike Masnick has the last word,\u00a0wrapping up the discussion and aftermath<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent kerfuffle about music sharing, free culture, and direct support of artists began on NPR and ended on TechDirt. Last month, Bob Boilen wrote “I Just Deleted All My Music” for NPR’s All Songs Considered blog; to which summer intern Emily White\u00a0replied last week “I Never Owned Any Music To Begin With“. \u00a0Trichordist’s David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[205,211,213],"tags":[60647,902,60650,39,3882,60649],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glory-glory-glory","category-international","category-metrics","tag-emilywhite","tag-free-culture","tag-masnick","tag-music","tag-npr","tag-sfc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-GC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}