Year 2020 in Review
Between January 1 and December 31 2020, the alpha60 team sampled between 55 and 60 media properties. Of these, 55…
Who Pirates Warhol Video Art?
Curious, the alpha60 team has been sampling in this space for the last four years. As a special end of…
Black is King Certified 2x Pirate Platinum
Quick update on Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s Black is King: in the last week it accumulated more than two million unique peers since…
Black is King Certified Pirate Platinum
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s Black is King is sampling very well, with more than 1.2M cumulative unique peers in August, and is…
alpha60-metadata
Introducing alpha60-metadata, an effort to tag media properities with metadata for cast etnicities, genders, sexualities and plot and genre keywords.…
Notorious Markets 2020
Here’s the scoop from USTR. Getcha Notorious Actors, Feeble Copyright Enforcers, and otherwise Nefarious or Shockingly Lax Intellectual Property Regions…
AAP v. IA
Slo-mo legal attack on the Internet Archive by the Association of American Publishers, in the middle of a pandemic and…
Metadata for Media Survey
Try difference media objects and see how the main distributors catalog it. Survery API’s from this article. Amazon …
Year 2019 in Review
Between January 1 and December 31 2019, the alpha60 team sampled between 36 and 40 media properties. Of those samples,…
