Tag Archive for the term: copyright

MUTEK2008: Friday, May 30th
Panel 3: Copyright VS Creativity
Covering such topics as sampling, piracy and copyright in general, the star of this panel was undoubtedly producer and Hyperdub label manager Kode 9, also known as Steve Goodman in real life. Starting with a few anecdotes about the Kafka-esque process of clearing samples with a major label, […]

I hammered out notes on the first half of the curated questioning of Gilberto Gil here, and now will continue to delight with more notes on digital policy, weee!
As part of the conversation about access, I asked about how understanding open software in comparison to ideals from Tropicalismo has helped advance free software in Brazil. […]

I just got back from Gilberto Gil’s second event here in Montreal, a kind of curated discussion between the Brazilian Culture Minister and Tropicalismo musical innovator and rebel Gil, the Digital Policy Coordinator Claudio Prado (sweetly anarchic and kind), and four academics and activists implicated in digital media.
Gilberto Gil, and Brazil as a whole, […]

One of the songs we sing in the LadiesAux is Woody Guthrie’s Union Maid.

There once was a union maid, she never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.
She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,
And when the Legion boys come ’round
She […]

Well, we blogged a lot of these Canadian ideas about music licensing during POP and Policy and they seem to be making their way into the mainstream debates down south, if only as a foil to the hamfisted madness of current sue-the-music-lover practices. Not usually one to be dubious about utopia (I’m pro-utopia!) I have […]

Oct 4, Coffee and Tea provided in the clean glass-bright lobby of the new McGill music building, then straight into the cold but lovely “classroom” ie; performance space.. hmm? (Me and Dom from Diary of a Lost Circus were dreaming). The goal of this POP and POlicy panel was to consider how different fields […]

risa: hey! i have a question about copyright law: where would i find up to date info on copyright law as it applies to music, specifically sampling and mc’ing, in canada?
no mean dream:
I don’t really know. You could try and find an annotated copyright act.
Or any recent treatise on copyright. Hang on let me look […]

lots of fun news! 2 to try on for size:
1. official Lulu.com lovers over here, we’ll be teaming up together to offer an OS for artists workshop at the Puces that will blow your mind. I swear. Also- they are sponsoring our publishing- not sure how this plays out yet but it makes me feel […]