#134 Lawrence Lessig & Reviews of Lil Wayne and Alejandro Escovedo

Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 20 June 2008

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With the digital music explosion, the issues of copyright, authorship and ownership have never been so important. Tune in to hear a re-broadcast of Jim and Greg’s interview with legal expert Lawrence Lessig. Plus, they’ll take a listen to the latest releases from Lil Wayne and Alejandro Escovedo.

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0:00.0	What happened? The music that meant something.
0:04.0	The who at the kingdom or kiss at the Coliseum.
0:07.0	Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water? where is the iron man of today. Hey, this is not a task. This is Rock and Roll.
0:30.0	Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.
0:35.0	I'm Jim D. Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.
0:38.0	And I'm Greg Katz. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.
0:42.0	Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show,
0:44.3	we're going to re-examine one of the most important issues
0:46.7	in music today, copyright law, with our guest Lawrence Lessick.
0:51.2	Plus, Greg and I will review the new album from Alejandro Escavito, and it's
0:55.0	Greg's turn to A track to the Desert Island Jukebox.
1:00.3	You're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. That is hair braider the new single from R Kelly and R Kelly will not be in jail to enjoy the proceeds from that particular record.
1:28.0	The biggest legal proceeding in the music world since the Michael Jackson Child Molestation case in 2005
1:35.4	has ended in Cook County Court in Chicago a few days ago R Kelly acquitted on
1:41.2	14 charges of child pornography by a jury after about seven hours of
1:46.0	deliberation, the five-week trial, and mesmerized a good part of Chicago and the music world are Kelly the biggest single name in
1:55.4	R&B of the last 15 years as a singer-producer and songwriter has had his hand in
2:00.5	over 40 million record sales in that time.
2:04.0	Could have gone away for a long time.
2:06.0	15 years in prison had he been convicted,
2:08.0	but he was acquitted on all charges.
2:10.0	And my partner on this show, Jim De Regottis, his reporting led directly to the indictment of R Kelly in 2002.
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