Tag: music licensing
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Muppets vs SNL
A real life mashup, The Muppet Show meets SNL, via security from Keegan-Michael Key and Kenan Thompson – and doing what a lot of us wanted to do when Statler and Waldorf interrupt. Really it has to be seen to be believed… (Also firms up rumours that they are thinking of bringing The Muppet Show…
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RIAA Shenanigans – Radio Clash Podcast gets it’s first takedown
So yesterday I woke up to this email: July 20, 2020 Radioclash.comBradler & Krantz GmbH & Co. KG X20-440681595272916 Dear Sir or Madam: I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America,Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whosemember companies create, manufacture and distribute approximately…
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Sita Sings the Blues; or why music licensing stifles creativity
Sita Sings The Blues is a wonderful film mixing a Sanskirt ancient epic with great 1920’s music and incredible animation. Nina Paley spent 3 years doing this I think partly autobiographical animation – in parts incredibly breathtaking, laugh-out-loud funny, charming, and moving. So can you see it? I mean those 1920’s songs must be out…