Tag: Sony
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Artists shouldn’t love corporate copyright
Every once in a while I bump into ‘artists’ (and I use that term loosely, quite often they are corporate shills, indie chancers or pretty new to the industry) who defend copyright laws, extensions and corporates. Happened again recently…What I find strange is that the enforcers of copyright (corporates, labels, media companies) don’t actually love…
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RIP Minidisc
Sony finally calls it a day on Minidisc. Although pretty much all of the Radio Clash podcasts from 2006-2010 were recorded on Hi-MD minidisc (a RH910) and had several earlier MD recorders (a blue MZ-R91 a Sharp in the late 90s), I’m not surprised. The original nor relaunched formats never took off in the mass…
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Just go with it…but no, not you…
Buzz at the moment in the mashup world is that there are mashups in the new Adam Sandler film, the Hollywood update of ‘Cactus Flower’ – ‘Just go with it’ – video is him talking about mashups (someone re-educate him though about the ‘last 5 years’ being more like last 12? thnx.) Mashups are on…
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RC 190: Crimes Against Podcasting – the POP edition
POP# in more than one sense – this is the Crimes Against Pop set Kirk and myself played last weekend, mixed in with some of our other choices and the rough (well +20%!) 1 hour set we’d planned. * indicates tracks we played at CAP. POP you can’t STOP (107Mb, 112Mins) The Divine Comedy –…
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I’ve been quoted in a Mashup PHD Dissertation…
…by way of GYBO and a lot of other mashup/bootleg peeps including interview with a lot of the US bootleggers! Liam McGranahan’s dissertation “Mashnography: Creativity, Consumption, and Copyright in the Mashup Community” as part of his doctorate from Brown University is available here, a ‘mashnography’ study into the ethnography of the bootleg scene. BTW timbearland…