Tag Archive for the term: copyright

editor’s note: file this under “news that’s of interest to students of copyright law; copyright activists; the copyright-curious; and anyone who has ever created anything.”
International Activists Launch New Website to Gather and Share International Copyright Knowledge
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other international copyright experts joined together today to launch [...]

I wanted to quote extensively from this article by Phd student Geof Glass about the impending changes to Canadian copyright law and the ways they will affect our lives as creators and sharers and digital transmogrifyiers and private citizens. The laws proposed will go even further then American laws to restrict even educational rights, and [...]

Check it out! Just finally got to sit down and edit together the video clips I managed to grab of our December 2008 Indyish live show, the Mixtapes Mess. With some audio help and editorial eye from Matthew Hiscock and Elran, it came together a little quirky. We wanted to give you a mini and [...]

It’s funny, with some bands I have a hard time telling the difference between the official music videos and the fan videos. I wonder if this happens when fans feel especially akin to the music makers, or maybe it just happens when the band’s aesthetic is based on repetition, haunting real life beauty and simplicity, [...]

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 [...]