Category: Copyleft
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Google fights for fair use
Google are offering to legally fight DMCA on fair use grounds on a few selected videos? This could be big…especially if they get case law and win. Remember this if your video mashups or remixes are taken down – you’re all definitely in the fair use category. As they said: We’re doing this because we…
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Artists shouldn’t love corporate copyright
Every once in a while I bump into ‘artists’ (and I use that term loosely, quite often they are corporate shills, indie chancers or pretty new to the industry) who defend copyright laws, extensions and corporates. Happened again recently…What I find strange is that the enforcers of copyright (corporates, labels, media companies) don’t actually love…
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RIP Don Joyce
So soon after the death of Ian Allen, Don Joyce of Negativland died yesterday. He joined Negativland in the early 1980’s and also ran the KPFA ‘Over The Edge’ show for three decades. One of the many shows were the Time Zones project – a fascination of radio, Time Zones and the elusive C.E. Friday…
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Soundcloud’s Raining On Your Parade
You might have heard a disturbance in the Force – many people crying out in pain suddenly at once. No it wasn’t the destruction of Alderaan, it was Soundcloud partnering with Zefr and thus many more tracks were taken down. I forecasted this would happen, rather than the ad-sponsored mashup/remix utopia that some were claiming…