Tag: rights
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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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Why losing the battle to rip CDs is bad
Just heard the news that the recently gained right in the UK for people to rip CDs for personal use (which most people thought was legal anyway) has been overturned. Although I doubt this will stop anyone from doing it, it’s bad for several reasons – the first being that “they suggested that a tax…
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Queer as in fuck you
In Pride Month I learned the sad story about David Olio, who was forced out of his job for playing, not reading, an Allen Ginsberg poem ‘Please Master’ to 17-18 year old college bound kids. Was this in the 1960’s? 1970’s even? No, earlier this year, in Connecticut. Several things annoy me about this from…
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Soundcloud’s Raining On Your Parade
You might have heard a disturbance in the Force – many people crying out in pain suddenly at once. No it wasn’t the destruction of Alderaan, it was Soundcloud partnering with Zefr and thus many more tracks were taken down. I forecasted this would happen, rather than the ad-sponsored mashup/remix utopia that some were claiming…
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lvlvlv1 aka DJ white knight = talentless mashup stealing plagiarist
Name and Shame time: there’s a mashup thief called lvlvlv1 and also DJ White Knight about claiming false credit for making mashups and remixes inc my Go Your Own Steinway mashup. This happens from time to time, sad and pathetic people try to enlarge their tiny e-Penis by stealing other people’s work and claiming it…
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Blame it on the Black Folks, blame it on the Jews…
This is a little dedication going out to those who voted for Prop 8, 2 or 102 in various states. Or those moaning that they don’t like Obama (don’t get me wrong, I do…I wish he was better in a few places but certainly much better than Grumpy McSame) or didn’t vote at all, and…