Tag: Open Rights Group
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Radio Clash 130: CampPod (aka Chop it Up And Start Again)
Hmm rather long time coming this one, unlike the train this got re-recorded and edited… Includes an interview with Glyn from Open Rights Group, my memories and thoughts of PodCamp UK, and various new and old mashups, covers and the like. Oh and a few Pirate tunes – YARR! Chop Chop Busy Busy Work Work…
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Digital Watermarking – a killer contract
After talking to Glyn over at Open Rights Group at podcamp and then the Andrew Keen lecture, it’s interesting seeing this post by Erik Davis (via Nerdcore and Boing Boing) about a case where an advance promo CD – something that exists as a symbol of trust between music critic and label, has now become…
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Podcamp Report
You want the thrills, the spills, the goss, the moss (?) not loads of boring words. Me and John went up on the Friday night to have a meal and get settled in for the early start the next day…wandered into the Fountain Inn and fairly quickly wandered out. So Saturday… Arrive and who do…
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Want to help change the arcane UK copyright law?
Some of you will know about the Gowers report on Copyright which recommended the loosening on rules around ‘fair use’ in the UK similarly to US rap groups and parodies in the US. Now according to the wonderful Open Rights group they are looking for examples from artists to give Patent Office where more relaxed…
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Legal mashups? Gowers review & Warners
As mentioned here before Open Right Group (podcasters might know them as Suw Charman spoke at the PodcastCon in another capacity) have been lobbying the Government and the Gowers Review, commissioned by the Treasury, into not extending the current UK copyright laws Cliff Richards and others were lobbying to extend musical copyright from the existing…
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Open Rights Group: Release the Music
Just got an interesting press release from Open Rights Group about a proposed extension of UK copyright law from 50 years to 95 years (or life + 70 years as published music gets). They’re having a public debate and journalist Q&A on November 13th in London – please go read and check it out…I’ll be…