Tag: independent artists
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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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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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“analogue business model in a digital era”
I love this quote from Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, about to speak at MIDEM about Filesharing: “I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’. I don’t actually believe it is … (Pirates) might not buy an album, but they’re spending their money…