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The sky isn’t falling! The sky isn’t falling!
“In Transformative Vs Incremental Change Steve Lawson produces a good summation of the crisis facing the recording industry, and why this isn’t a crisis for the artist, but an opportunity (one that publishing corporations do not want artists to take),” writes Crosbie Fitch in Digital Productions , going on »»» When you take an industry that has 4 big costs — recording, manufacture, distribution, promotion — and remove 3 of them, that changes everything. Costs have been removed from the picture, but this only represents a loss in revenue to the publishing corporations — not to artists. Artists can now take advantage of this all being done for free — instead of signing to a label in order pay them their rates that were inflated in the first place.
Continue reading »‘Offline, no-one can hear you whine’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Yesterday I posted an open letter to Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC) members asking them to go back to square one on their disasterous (for them and us, both) Three Strikes decision. Presumptuous? I’m a music fan and the group is backing a scheme which could — and would, if Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music get their way — criminalise me, and others like me, including my 13-year-old daughter.
Continue reading »Taking 1p2U for a drive
Recently, in a p2pnet post on the The Pirate Bay saga, which is rapidly turning into The Pirate Bay farce , I referred to the 1p2U (one penny to you) micro-payments programme Crosbie Fitch has been grafting away at, going on: “He’s been on it for quite a while and I asked him how it’s going.” “ ‘1p2U is in what is known as ‘live alpha’, he said. ‘That means it hasn’t been “launched” to great fanfare, but it can start being tested by those willing to put up with a few bugs, glitches, sluggishness and certain features missing. “More information is available at 1p2u.com (for bloggers as well as those who think some of them write articles worth paying a penny for)’.” Take it for a drive , he suggested.
Continue reading »The market for copies is dead
Paul Sanders brings my attention to a PlayLouder blog item concerning a speech by Viviane Reding , where she says »»» If we do not, very quickly, make it easier and more consumer-friendly to access digital content, we could lose a whole generation as supporters of artistic creation and legal use of digital services. If we do not stop flogging the dead horse of forcing people to pay for copies they can make themselves for nothing, and start helping people pay artists for the art they want from them, then we’re not doing much to help either artists or their audiences. Unfortunately, the interests of the artists and their audiences aren’t on the radar of the EU Commissioner for Telecoms and Media.
Continue reading »Copyright works: toxic waste
British politicians who believe their constituents are Hollywood and the Big 4 music labels, rather than the people who elected them, want to “match online and physical IP infringement penalties, with a statutory maximum penalty of £50,000 [$82,000] “. This will, “improve copyright licensing” reckons UK intellectual property office supremo David Lammy. But, “The more dangerous it is for the public to handle copyright works the less they will,” observes our friend Crosbie Fitch in a Reader’s Write .
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