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We already knew that the patent system is fucked, but this is just sad.

Clear Channel … announced that it had acquired a U.S. patent covering a system of creating digital recordings of live performances. Essentially, the patent’s “Event Recording System” is a convoluted and fairly vague description of off-the-shelf stuff you could pick up at any Guitar Center…
Clear Channel has interpreted this patent to infer that it now owns the exclusive rights to all live performance recordings sold at any venue on the day of show, thus creating a virtual monopoly on the process.

Here’s the patent: U.S. Patent #6,614,729: System and method of creating digital recordings of live performances

(Hearty thanks to Chuck for keeping us in mind as he’s killing company time reading Mix Magazine)