Tag: rights
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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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PodCamp UK – I survived!
Just got back from PodCamp UK a few hours ago, travelling back on the train with Scott from the Night Nurse Show. I’ve met loads of people, chaired a session on Music Rights and Podcasting, did a great DJ set which at least made John laugh til it hurt and was great fun to do…
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Shame in the East
Well for the next couple of months it’s Pride season, traditionally June because of Stonewall but London Pride is in July and Brighton is in August. Prides in this country are fun mostly apolitical affairs (I’ve commented on that in the podcast before now). But spare a thought for those in countries where it’s still…
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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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PodcastCon 2006 UK debrief
Wow…it’s 7pm Sunday and I’m still feeling the aftershock of the PodCastCon 2006! Overall I had fun but had mixed feelings about the conferences themselves – more fun, interesting interactions and conversations was had out of them than in, sadly. I arrived at 12pm – with jetlag from San Francisco flying in at 8:30am the…