Tag: creative commons
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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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RC 270: Pop Is Dead #5 – Moneygoround
Fifth instalment of the Pop Is Dead series, all about the dirty, dirty cash in the music industry, with occasional interruptions from Steve Albini and The Story of Pop. The finale will be next week. Get the money, Mr. Potato, Get the money, Pay the Eskimo… (163Mb, 2:02) Doxa Sinistra – Call Now! The Kinks…
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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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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…
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RC 195: Keep It Peel
Photo by kyz – Creative Commons Originally put together on the 25th October, the 6th anniversary of John Peel’s death, technical difficulties stopped it being recorded and posted then. John Peel’s death was the catalyst for this podcast (Radio Clash started a little over a month later), so I always feel I have to pay…