Tag: fair use
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RC 329: One Nation Under A Roof
It’s Really Interesting Arse-kicking Audio, kids! Cease and desist what you’re doing and listen! A Universal middle finger nation response for those with a Big Life on an Island Sanctuary: the corporate Dream that Works is actually complete nightmare. Things have changed in lockdown, power has shifted, artists are showing they can work happily without…
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Horace goes IP Trolling
Octav1us, game reviewer and lover of 1980’s games has been attacked by a copyright troll – Paul Andrews of Subvert. (I do name and shame even if she’s understandably too scared and worried to do it – so bite me. She used Horace from the ZX Spectrum games, but the guy who was one of…
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new Negativland: True/Fake News
Some rumblings from the land that is Negativ:, there is a new release called Discernment from an album called True/False out on October 21st which seems like it’s a development from the True/False tour but very timely in this era of ‘Fake News’. Click here to pre-order, which comes with lots of bonus goodies AND…
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Make YouTube Great Again
Great explanation of Copyright and Fair use by Matthias, in a campaign stared by GradeAUnderA called #MakeYouTubeGreatAgain…given my background of musical mashup piracy and unofficial remix I must be against this creator copyright business, right? Wrong. I’ve been affected on YouTube by baseless claims, DMCAs from companies that don’t even OWN the things they’re claiming,…
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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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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…