Day: 15 April 2010
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Copying is not theft – wonderful cartoon
How I love Nina Paley – she of Sita Sings the Blues, who has created this animation and song and open-sourced the soundtrack production – leading to this wonderful big-band-style jazz song about copying arranged by Nik Phelps and sung by Connie Champagne. 1 minute of fun and education, can’t say fairer than that *nod*…
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How much does music really earn?
Answer: Depends on where you buy it from BUT that’s not the question you should be asking… The infographic from Information is Beautiful to the left has been doing the rounds recently, and causing some debate (there’s also been mucho discussion previously over at GYBO about digital distribution models vs streaming and physical CDs which…
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Somalia bans music on the radio
Somalia’s islamic Hitzbul Islam has banned music (even jingles or adverts using music) on the radio. They’ve also seized BBC relay transmitters (hence first linking to the Grauniad article first, as the BBC article has obvious bias) and I wonder if in part this is a political step against outsiders broadcasting into the country? I…