Tag: Free content
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Ed Sheeran vs Marvin Gaye & Why AI & Copyright Might Kill Art
Love this video from Adam Neely about the Ed Sheeran case vs Marvin Gaye (well actually vs SAS investment banker trying it on, Ed Townsend died years ago). I do think it’s a stretch, as a mashup artist I’ve heard so many things like that, it’s not a direct lift. You cannot own a genre!…
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YouTuber gets copyright claim for playing Beethoven
Today’s entry in Copycrazy-right? is Marina from The Piano Keys, a musical blogger who does tutorials on how to play pieces on the piano for the last five years. She did a video on Piano Sonata No, 14 aka Moonlight Sonata, playing a piece written by Beethoven in 1801. She then got a copyright claim…
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Working Down On Mashup Farm: Microserfs and the New Economy
Something is very much not right in the state of Denmark – well if Denmark was the state of mashups. Recent events have suggested that certain platforms will now welcome mashups, unofficial remixes, unlicensed DJ mixes, podcasts of commercial music and the like. Apple made waves two weeks ago with such an idea of licensing…
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Forced Exposure
I suspect this wonderful Oatmeal comic is both a response to HuffPost raping his bandwidth and also what happened to Wil Wheaton when they wanted ‘free’ content. (This is why I repost images and give credit; certainly despite Flattr – thank you those who have donated – it doesn’t cover the costs, as a truly…
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1337 License revoked! Licensing vs physical product
As David Jack so succintly points out in I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement the music industry wants it both ways (but not in a porn way – fnar) – to license music but then not uphold those licenses on physical media. Works even better with MPAA and co. and scratched DVDs –…
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Lawrence Lessig gets DMCA’d for fair use by Warners
More silliness from Warners, who after nixing my video and many other peoples seem to be taking over EMI’s previous Public Enemy #1 Evil spot really quickly. So you have a talk about copyright by Lawrence Lessig, a leading expert and thinker in the field, founder of Creative Commons and professor of law at Stanford…