Tag: Copyright law
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Cease and Desist Mark 2: Beastles gets pulled by the blue meanies
Years ago, on a different host and a different URL I got a Cease and Desist from EMI via the MCPS-PRS for a mashup I did…interestingly I haven’t been hassled since then, til now. I’m mirroring the Beastles ‘Ill Submarine’ and it seems the RIAA & Universal is leading an attack on it, despite the…
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Lord Footnote vs The World
I’ve never even heard of this Lord Finesse (oh such a player…oh he was the vocal sample in Rockafeller Skank?…that’s hip hop history *right there*. Looking at his wiki page and 3 albums it does make me wonder if this is the hiphop version of patent trolling?) but this video by Dan Bull spells out…
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Everything is a Remix
Dunno how I missed Everything is a Remix series on copyright and ideas by Kirby Ferguson – especially the last episode which spells out some of the big issues for copyright and IP law (and also includes The Kleptones in it!). With the world in need of good ideas how to stop climate change, how…
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Copyright State of Mind
I cautiously welcome the new proposed changes to UK copyright law to allow format shifting (ie. what pretty much everyone does already, which is copy CDs they own onto their iPods or computers, crazily this has been officially illegal) and parodies – like the excellent Newport State of Mind above. Cautious because we’ve been here…
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Copyright Criminals and the Funky Drummer
Copyright Criminals – the 2009 documentary have released a special DVD edition with extras from the likes of Clyde Stubblefield (the original Funky Drummer – although I dispute the ‘Most sampled drummer’ tag as Greg Coleman who did Amen break in the Winstons has been sampled in many more songs since 1989!). So to promote…
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UK democracy with a copyright symbol
Crazy world where a Brighton and Hove local councillor can get sanctioned because of copying a council’s public web stream to YouTube without editing them. Yes this is the silliness of UK’s crown copyright and other laws – public money or public office does not automatically mean public domain, sadly. Hence why rx could happily…