Yes, we are still allowed to play other people's songs, even if some of those in charge of printing the transcripts are making it tricky. Playing them in public, however, would require someone--either you or your venue--to pay a songwriter association to make it strictly legal.
We know how most slashdotters feel about the songwriter associations, right?
Last I checked, it was $15 to $18 for an album with solid media and a case at record stores, or cheaper if the store wants to get rid of certain five-year-old albums. It's $10 for a whole album (any length) at iTunes, so you do get a discount for sacrificing the solid media and the case--though iTunes tries to ship cover art with its digital albums.
True, it is a bad deal if you buy all the tracks of an album but one on iTunes; but if you're buying the entire album, digital is cheaper.
They did try to price movies like music once, back in the early days of videotape: it cost $100 for a Betamax or VHS tape. Almost no individuals bought movies at those prices, and the studios weren't crazy about rental places buying them. That's why movies only cost $20 now: people just won't pay more than that.
Music may be sold for considerably more than it costs the labels to make & distribute it, but even in this slump there are still many people willing to buy albums at the prices the labels are charging. The labels are pricing to milk the demand, not to reflect their cost to supply it.
Some movie stars are artists.
Some movie stars can actually act well enough to be good actors despite the extra charisma. Those people are artists--maybe not as much as the screenwriters or directors, but they are.
Thanks.
The TV advertising gigs are directly relevant because they actually involve acting! And since everything else on TV is paid for through ads or through cable and satellite fees, that's a good system.
Oh, those strong moral issues exist. It's just that those who know and are affected most crazily usually just post here, or are trying to making a living signed to one of the labels creating these problems.
Now, if SoundExchange continues on its quest for a billion dollars in administrative fees, some of the moral issues will become known. Thousands of people would be annoyed or distressed if Yahoo! Launchcast (all zillion stations--Yahoo! personalizes them for their users) was taken off the air. Many of them will be people with just enough computer savvy to work Yahoo!--but they would be aware, and they would be irate, and they might even know who to blame. Yahoo! would be quick to assure its users that removing Launchcast was against its will.
Repeat with variations for the other large internet-radio conglomerates.
Let me get this straight:
You would outsource farm labor to a foreign company operating robots in our country from a control center in their country?
That, if implemented, would put the fate of our produce market in hands that might someday want to work against our interests, either because they have a produce market of their own or because our diplomatic relations with their country have gone downhill.
Trust me, this could happen with any color of worker or manager at the robotic control center--red, yellow, black, white, brown, tan, green with purple polka dots...
At least illegal immigrants have an incentive not to deliberately destroy our economy: they depend on our infrastructure.
Ah, but not every movie star wants to get into politics that directly. And they do gotta eat before they get elected, too.
Of course, there are other ways for movie stars to get paid, since we're not planning to go extravagant for them. We could go back to what the MPAA had in the Golden Age of Movies: actors, screenwriters, and directors sign with studios and get a salary from the studios for the duration of the contract.
Of course, bringing the old system back would mean that the studios could exploit all actors and directors equally. Under the present system, there are actors and directors who have enough influence to get decent-to-excellent pay from the studios, and who are considered important enough to hire anyway. That wouldn't happen much under the contract system.
Then again, lesser actors and directors--including ones that are as yet unformed--might do better under the old system. But this system is dangerously close to the RIAA labels' current system, so...
MIT claims to have transmitted their power through wood, metal, & other electronics to get the power from their transmitter to that light bulb.
How would you feel about an RFID transmitter that transmits through steel wallets?
Point taken. I think MIT used slightly less juice, though.
Even redoing Tesla's work is a mjor scientific advance these days, since it helps prove he wasn't a crackpot.
Simple. The corps. arrange for the gov. to declare that clicking the "I Agree" button on the EULA is legally equivalent to actually signing the contract.
Unfortunately, I can't explain why the courts act like it's legal to have contracts that forbid you from using courts. Maybe they just want to lighten their dockets?
The Preakness is a horse race, the middle third of the Triple Crown (the first is the Kentucky Derby).
I agree that NBC should not have pre-empted the end of a hockey game for the Preakness "pre-game." I disapprove of hours of "pre-game" for a three-minute race.
Like hockey, NASCAR is a sport which is not supposed to include violence. But a NASCAR race that went perfectly smoothly would just be cars going around a large oval track really fast somewhere between 100 and 500 times (with the occasional pit stop), and after a while that could get stultifying for a viewer. It gets most interesting right when car-related violence happens.
There are no rules against violence in NASCAR: it's just presumed that self-preservation and trying to win the race would discourage people from encouraging car crashes at 150-200 miles an hour. Now NASCAR has teams--groups of race cars all owned by the same people--so that's no longer a 100% effective tactic. Dale Earnhardt Sr. died some years back near the end of a race when he drove his car into a wall; I believe he did it on purpose, to prevent a rival car from going forward so that another car in his team could get the lead before the post-crash flags froze the racecar order.
I don't get local NFL blackouts either--haven't had them for over a decade--but I suspect that not all the tickets sold to sell out the games for my local NFL team are being used. It has a strong fanbase, but not quite as strong as the Packers, and I think that some games are being sold out because radio shows are buying all the unsold tix for give-aways.
Or to put it another way: I've seen local games on TV that had a lot of empty seats in the stands.
I'm sure someone must watch televised hockey, or why are they putting hockey teams in southern states?
I'm hoping the NFL accepts this tech. It'd be nice to get around local TV blackouts without having to rig ticket sales.
No, that wouldn't work. Congress would just work a large donation to the song's publisher in their next appropriations bill.
(I hear that there is a very cute shark working at that company... [sardonic grin])
Mexicans may not break American law by definition. "Illegal immigrants" do--that's why we call them illegal. Whether the current law is reasonable is still up for debate, since Congress is considering amending it. (We know Mexico doesn't think much of it. I've heard tales that Mexico's gov. issues guides on how to cross the border without documents. Take with salt.)
The groups of Mexicans in America and illegal immigrants overlap, but they are independent. There are a few legal Mexican immigrants. (There would be more if we didn't grant amnesty so often to illegals.) Not all the illegal immigrants are Mexican--not even all the ones that cross the US-Mexico border.
Hmmm...
I think it can be argued that, since the AK-47 was in widespread use for 50 years before that patent was filed, and since it's an easy gun to disassemble and reassemble, by the time that patent was filed it should no longer have been "non-obvious."
The problem is, the source you protest believes that it isn't "just one speech"--that Moore blended different NRA speeches by Heston together in that clip. The overall opinion Heston expresses may be real, but it doesn't correspond to any one actual speech--in particular, not to the one speech given after the Columbine shooting.
Trust me, speeches can be blended like that. Two of my McCartney concert films (covering '89-90 and '93) have concert footage spliced from many different concerts. You know they aren't all from the same McCartney concert because his costume changes (among other things), but there are no breaks in the sound--and the clips are spliced together mid-song!
So the problem with modern documentaries is that there are film equivs. to Photoshop, and it is not always easy to tell when they are being used.
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Yes, we are still allowed to play other people's songs, even if some of those in charge of printing the transcripts are making it tricky. Playing them in public, however, would require someone--either you or your venue--to pay a songwriter association to make it strictly legal.
We know how most slashdotters feel about the songwriter associations, right?
Last I checked, it was $15 to $18 for an album with solid media and a case at record stores, or cheaper if the store wants to get rid of certain five-year-old albums. It's $10 for a whole album (any length) at iTunes, so you do get a discount for sacrificing the solid media and the case--though iTunes tries to ship cover art with its digital albums.
True, it is a bad deal if you buy all the tracks of an album but one on iTunes; but if you're buying the entire album, digital is cheaper.
They did try to price movies like music once, back in the early days of videotape: it cost $100 for a Betamax or VHS tape. Almost no individuals bought movies at those prices, and the studios weren't crazy about rental places buying them. That's why movies only cost $20 now: people just won't pay more than that.
Music may be sold for considerably more than it costs the labels to make & distribute it, but even in this slump there are still many people willing to buy albums at the prices the labels are charging. The labels are pricing to milk the demand, not to reflect their cost to supply it.
Some movie stars are artists.
Some movie stars can actually act well enough to be good actors despite the extra charisma. Those people are artists--maybe not as much as the screenwriters or directors, but they are.
Thanks.
The TV advertising gigs are directly relevant because they actually involve acting! And since everything else on TV is paid for through ads or through cable and satellite fees, that's a good system.
Oh, those strong moral issues exist. It's just that those who know and are affected most crazily usually just post here, or are trying to making a living signed to one of the labels creating these problems.
Now, if SoundExchange continues on its quest for a billion dollars in administrative fees, some of the moral issues will become known. Thousands of people would be annoyed or distressed if Yahoo! Launchcast (all zillion stations--Yahoo! personalizes them for their users) was taken off the air. Many of them will be people with just enough computer savvy to work Yahoo!--but they would be aware, and they would be irate, and they might even know who to blame. Yahoo! would be quick to assure its users that removing Launchcast was against its will.
Repeat with variations for the other large internet-radio conglomerates.
Let me get this straight:
You would outsource farm labor to a foreign company operating robots in our country from a control center in their country?
That, if implemented, would put the fate of our produce market in hands that might someday want to work against our interests, either because they have a produce market of their own or because our diplomatic relations with their country have gone downhill.
Trust me, this could happen with any color of worker or manager at the robotic control center--red, yellow, black, white, brown, tan, green with purple polka dots...
At least illegal immigrants have an incentive not to deliberately destroy our economy: they depend on our infrastructure.
The "extension cords" can't beam through electronics without disrupting them. MIT's coils can.
I believe that it is news that someone has, in fact, (re)discovered the process that needs to be improved.
Ah, but not every movie star wants to get into politics that directly. And they do gotta eat before they get elected, too.
Of course, there are other ways for movie stars to get paid, since we're not planning to go extravagant for them. We could go back to what the MPAA had in the Golden Age of Movies: actors, screenwriters, and directors sign with studios and get a salary from the studios for the duration of the contract.
Of course, bringing the old system back would mean that the studios could exploit all actors and directors equally. Under the present system, there are actors and directors who have enough influence to get decent-to-excellent pay from the studios, and who are considered important enough to hire anyway. That wouldn't happen much under the contract system.
Then again, lesser actors and directors--including ones that are as yet unformed--might do better under the old system. But this system is dangerously close to the RIAA labels' current system, so...
MIT used incandescent bulbs, I believe. I don't think incandescents light under high-tension lines.
MIT claims to have transmitted their power through wood, metal, & other electronics to get the power from their transmitter to that light bulb.
How would you feel about an RFID transmitter that transmits through steel wallets?
I thought Roombas were the first step to ubiquitous home robotics--or maybe the incarnation.
Did your electric toothbrush charge that way outside a corded charger?
Point taken. I think MIT used slightly less juice, though.
Even redoing Tesla's work is a mjor scientific advance these days, since it helps prove he wasn't a crackpot.
Simple. The corps. arrange for the gov. to declare that clicking the "I Agree" button on the EULA is legally equivalent to actually signing the contract.
Unfortunately, I can't explain why the courts act like it's legal to have contracts that forbid you from using courts. Maybe they just want to lighten their dockets?
The Preakness is a horse race, the middle third of the Triple Crown (the first is the Kentucky Derby).
I agree that NBC should not have pre-empted the end of a hockey game for the Preakness "pre-game." I disapprove of hours of "pre-game" for a three-minute race.
Like hockey, NASCAR is a sport which is not supposed to include violence. But a NASCAR race that went perfectly smoothly would just be cars going around a large oval track really fast somewhere between 100 and 500 times (with the occasional pit stop), and after a while that could get stultifying for a viewer. It gets most interesting right when car-related violence happens.
There are no rules against violence in NASCAR: it's just presumed that self-preservation and trying to win the race would discourage people from encouraging car crashes at 150-200 miles an hour. Now NASCAR has teams--groups of race cars all owned by the same people--so that's no longer a 100% effective tactic. Dale Earnhardt Sr. died some years back near the end of a race when he drove his car into a wall; I believe he did it on purpose, to prevent a rival car from going forward so that another car in his team could get the lead before the post-crash flags froze the racecar order.
I don't get local NFL blackouts either--haven't had them for over a decade--but I suspect that not all the tickets sold to sell out the games for my local NFL team are being used. It has a strong fanbase, but not quite as strong as the Packers, and I think that some games are being sold out because radio shows are buying all the unsold tix for give-aways.
Or to put it another way: I've seen local games on TV that had a lot of empty seats in the stands.
I'm sure someone must watch televised hockey, or why are they putting hockey teams in southern states?
I'm hoping the NFL accepts this tech. It'd be nice to get around local TV blackouts without having to rig ticket sales.
Yes. But, judging from the pix in the fine BBC article, MIT lit an incandescent lightbulb wirelessly.
No, that wouldn't work. Congress would just work a large donation to the song's publisher in their next appropriations bill.
(I hear that there is a very cute shark working at that company... [sardonic grin])
Mexicans may not break American law by definition. "Illegal immigrants" do--that's why we call them illegal. Whether the current law is reasonable is still up for debate, since Congress is considering amending it. (We know Mexico doesn't think much of it. I've heard tales that Mexico's gov. issues guides on how to cross the border without documents. Take with salt.)
The groups of Mexicans in America and illegal immigrants overlap, but they are independent. There are a few legal Mexican immigrants. (There would be more if we didn't grant amnesty so often to illegals.) Not all the illegal immigrants are Mexican--not even all the ones that cross the US-Mexico border.
Hmmm...
I think it can be argued that, since the AK-47 was in widespread use for 50 years before that patent was filed, and since it's an easy gun to disassemble and reassemble, by the time that patent was filed it should no longer have been "non-obvious."
The problem is, the source you protest believes that it isn't "just one speech"--that Moore blended different NRA speeches by Heston together in that clip. The overall opinion Heston expresses may be real, but it doesn't correspond to any one actual speech--in particular, not to the one speech given after the Columbine shooting.
Trust me, speeches can be blended like that. Two of my McCartney concert films (covering '89-90 and '93) have concert footage spliced from many different concerts. You know they aren't all from the same McCartney concert because his costume changes (among other things), but there are no breaks in the sound--and the clips are spliced together mid-song!
So the problem with modern documentaries is that there are film equivs. to Photoshop, and it is not always easy to tell when they are being used.
Among adult males in Ancient Athens. The finest pure democracy ever, and it still ordered Socrates to take hemlock.