Tag: royalties
-
The First Lady of Sampling Is Gone
Loleatta Holloway died yesterday – you may not know her by name, but you almost certainly know here voice – her Love Sensation acapella kicked off this whole sampling shebang as a major commercial force with a bang with 1989’s biggest selling UK single Ride on Time by Black Box. A masterpiece in sample reconstruction,…
-
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…
-
Greedy Apple
One thing that irks me about Apple (only one thing? everyone cries, well the ones reading my blogs anyways!) is that they like to be portrayed as the victim, the lone tiny company against a world of big blue corporates. Especially when journalists cover news stories about Apple. Well I have news for you –…
-
Streaming Wars: The Great Switch Off
Just got this email from Pandora (the online streaming intelligent ‘learning’ radio site) hi, it’s Tim, This is an email I hoped I would never have to send. As you probably know, in July of 2007 we had to block usage of Pandora outside the U.S. because of the lack of a viable license structure…