Each week, industry veteran Celia Hirschman considers the changes and trends happening in the music business. An independent consultant for the music business, she founded the marketing consulting company Downtown Marketing and also runs the UK-based record label One Little Indian in North America.

Here is a recent show originally aired on KCRW in LA:

According to Roll Call, which is the Congressional newspaper, the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA, is joining forces with several artists’ organizations to push Congress to require that broadcast radio stations pay royalties to performers. This is an entirely new issue and one that will be hotly argued by all sides.

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Here is a discussion moderated by Cory Doctorow. John Gilmore founded the first dial-up ISP, wrote the world’s most widely used compiler, and funds legal campaigns from marijuana law reform to Constitutional challenges to Transport Security Agency regulations; and Barlow is the mad poet who wrote the Grateful Dead’s best-loved lyrics and followed that up by penning seminal philosophical documents about the Internet, including the notorious Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.

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