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RIP: A Remix Manifesto
If you haven’t seen this film yet, then where have you been? “RIP: a remix manifesto” a documentary about copyright and how it’s restricting the art it was built to protect. The docu film from Brett Gaylor is apparently 6 years in the making discussing the culture that has been created through the ability of [...]
A New Villain?
This post origianlly appeared and was written for the Gigbeth Conference website.
It’s not all doom and gloom within the music industry. In fact, it’s probably worth taking a look around and making the best out of what you’ve got. This week, the IFPI released it’s 2008 statistical handbook to members. The rankings haven’t changed really, [...]
Downloads
This post origianlly appeared and was written for the Gigbeth Conference website.
It doesn’t matter what side of the fence you sit on the BIG download debate, there’s good news and bad news.
Currently, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK recording industry trade body, are negotiating with the ISP’s to voluntary regulate people’s downloads. It’s suggested [...]
Private Copying and the Music Business Group
It sounds like the title for a novel doesn’t it? Next one coming out is ”Harry Potter and the Gowers review.”
The industry (and yes, everyone, trade bodies, publishers, managers etc.) have submitted a document to the Intellectual Property Office yesterday, proposing the private copying process of format shifting, should not be classed as illegal. So right [...]
Levies
The music industry is heavily criticized for being out of touch! I have never agreed more. We are now in 2008 and the music industry are discussing when a cd is copies onto computers and media devices such as mp3 players, should a levie be imposed?
All I can say is we’re not all like this. The [...]
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