I would like to see GPS integrated into the phones. This would be handy for integrating it with Google for maps and getting directions from your current position.
With GPS coordinates combined with a camera (and maybe a compass), metadata could be added to pictures that would not only allow an accurate time stamp, but also show exactly where the photo was taken and maybe even which direction it was facing.
The theater experience isn't dead, in fact this movie made it come back to life! According to this article:
"Movie chain AMC Entertainment Inc. said pranksters at one of its Phoenix theaters released two live diamondback rattlesnakes during a showing of the film "Snakes on a Plane" last Friday. No one was injured."
Artists will sign multiple-album contracts with a label so this is hard for many currently signed artists.
On the other hand, someone has to bank-roll the recording/producing and promotion of the album. The record co takes all of the risk in this regard. Of course they have to get into the black before the artists will ever see any money (they usually never do).
Government without the power to legislate and/or regulate the markets, cannot be used as a tool of special interests to legislate/regulate in their favor. This is one of the main principles behind libertarianism. If the government doesn't interfere in the marketplace, then it can't give anyone a government-granted advantage.
Parody and satire are both fair use defenses for alleged copyright infringement. Parody is something that is used to make fun of itself. Satire is where something is used as a vehicle to make fun of something else, or to make some sort of commentary.
Trademark cases in the US are usually based upon "causing confusion in the marketplace". In other words, if you use someone else's trademark and the court finds it does not cause confusion in the market place, you might be found guilty of statutory infringement only, or the case may be thrown out altogether etc. If the use is found to 'cause confusion in the marketplace' even if it is a parody/satire, then the lawyers will argue this point to a judge and see what happens.
I took two semesters of copyright law in college so I consider myself fairly well educated on the subject.
Just be sure you understand that the classical music you bought wasn't actually discounted. Its price-structure is such that it is designed to be sold for less, not because they had to lower the price just to sell it. I have a degree in the music industry and never understood this until one of my professors who worked for Madacy as an engineer used to produce albums of this nature and explained it to me.
..is that acoustical HF in that range is VERY directional. So if it is in your pocket the radiated energy could EASILY be blocked by the fabric of your jeans. For that matter a piece of tape, or even your finger over the speaker or the vent for the transducer will probably block it.
I have not seen them in use nor have I heard them, so they might have a way around this. I don't know.
But I am an audio engineer and with HF our ears use a localizing process called 'Interaural amplitude difference' as opposed LF freqs which use 'Interaural time difference' with a resolution 30ms or greater. This combined with the fact that at these freqs the WL is very short (.6534cm or.2573 inches) makes it hard to get to our ears easily without line-of-sight.
I am an audio engineer... and the fluid in the basilar membrane will indeed harden over the years with everyone. Some people are more resistant to this than others, but it does happen to everyone in older age with measurable effect. This is called natural hearing loss.
I am 24 and have listened to high volume music for most of my life (concerts, headphones, etc) however I no appreciable hearing loss below 8kHz. I have not been officially tested for over 8k, but I have run tests on myself and it seems that my loss starts around 17-18kHz which is appropriate for my age.
Since I am about to go on tour next week mixing for 20 bands at a traveling rock fest, I got custom molded ear plugs (-15dB attenuators) I had my hearing tested last week. After the test the audiologist flat out told me that even though I have abused my hearing, my genes were strong enough to keep any noticeable noise-induced loss from occurring. Apparently it is not that way with everyone. Some people's genes are allow them to be more resistant to damage than others.
From Wiki regarding Orlando/Central Florida: "Lockheed-Martin has a large manufacturing facility for missile systems, aeronautical crafts and related high tech research due to Orlando's proximity to the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Since the 1970's and 1980's the area is also home to many computer software and hardware firms, such as IBM. Other notable engineering firms have offices or labs in the Central Florida area: KDF, General Dynamics, Harris, Westinghouse, Siemens, Veritas/Seagate, multiple USAF facilities, Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), Comair Aviation Academy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, GE, Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation (AFAMS), Army Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM), AT&T, Boeing, CAE Systems Flight & Simulation Training, HP, Institute for Simulation and Training, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Systems. The Naval Training Center until a few years ago was one of the two places where nuclear engineers were trained for the US Navy. Now the land has been converted into the Baldwin Park development.
Nearby Maitland is the home of Tiburon, a division of the video game company Electronic Arts. Originally Tiburon Entertainment, it was acquired by EA in 1998 after years of partnership, particularly in the famous Madden NFL series and NCAA Football series of video games.
The U.S. modeling, simulation, and training (MS&T) industry is centered around the Orlando region as well, with a particularly strong presence in the Central Florida Research Park adjacent to UCF."
Well, if you are talking about "surviving on the profits" that is an entirely different situation entirely.
It is harder and harder to actually make a profit on recorded music these days. This includes everyone from bar bands, indipendent labels, and even the Big 5/4/3/whomever they are these days.
The industry has been transitioning from one phase to another recently. Originally the recordings were designed to promote the live shows. That changed with Sgt. Pepper/Beatles and until very recently, the biz model was cenetered aronud the recordings. Now with the Net that is starting to change back to where the recordings are starting to support the live shows.
But here is a hint. Unless you are Elton John, Greenday, Madonna, Metallica etc, you generally WON'T make any profit from your recordings. Everyone else other than the top %.01 can only make money off of their live shows, publishing deals, and licensing for film/games/commercials.
I think you are a bit confused. WalMart only carries a very very very VERY small fraction of albums released each year. Granted those releases often (but not always) generate $$millions for the Industry, but in terms of quantity of albums released, WalMart is a very small selection.
As far as distribution methods, do you really think that someone can stop MySpace, BitTorrent, LimeWire, P2P etc? Or what about other independent websites, or Internet radio? And actually, now with the Internet, it is easier than EVER for a musician or act to be heard by a nationaal or even an international audience.
I'd say that the labels are on the downside of their death grip on distribution. I work in the industry and also have a degree in it. I live in Nashville and see this stuff on a daily basis.
That might have been true 10 years ago, maybe even 5 years ago.
But now ANYONE can record, duplicate, and distribute their music very easily. With broadband almost everywhere, it only takes a few seconds to d/l a single, and a few minutes to download an album. With recording equipment being very prolific and MySpace's popularity the labels are losing (I would say have already lost) their death grip on distribution to the public.
I work in the Industry, and I agree the labels are very cut-throat and slimy, perhaps even illegal at times. But I think the convictions you are talking about are more about price-fixing and the co-op advertsing deals.
The labels don't rob anyone of anything. The copyright holders have to willfully transfer copyrights to the labels. I know of no such situation of this happening at gunpoint or under a situation of duress which would thus invalidate the contract. Both parties agree on the contract.
You are on the right track about radio airplay however. There is a fine line between that and 'payola', however there are a lot of backroom deals that go on. Airtime is limited and a song's life-cycle is finite.
Most bands just starting out can get cheap recording time or even buy their recording equipment and do it in their own homes. I know of many albums that were very well done in the comfort of their own living room. Of course the people doing the recording have to know what they are doing of course.
Most acts don't form and then first get into a record contract. Most acts (unless the individual members are already established) do live shows. After doing live shows they pool their money together to get a recording done. Then they do more live shows and have synergy between the shows and the recorded CD. If they are good, and there is a market in their genre for their style, then they will begin to build a name for themselves OVER TIME in a geographic area. At this point if they get bigger and bigger a record company A&R guy will eventually hear about them and then approach them and perhaps offer them a deal.
Most acts don't make mega-fame or mega-bucks. The only reason a few do is because the labels put all of their efforts behind them. It is VERY hard to make an ROI in the Industry. The labels have a lot of risk and a lot of liability when they sign a new act. Not to say that some of their tactics and practices aren't crappy, but again, everyone has to agree to enter into it willfully.
There is a book written by this guy: http://mtsu.edu/~record/hull.html which talks about that. In fact it includes 3 income streams: publishing/songwriting, recording, and live performance and shows how each stream interacts with one another.
I fail to see your point about copyright law hurting current artists. The art is theirs, it belongs to them. The ONLY way someone else can exploit it is with the original author's permission (via a recording/publishing contract etc).
Get an investor, several investors, or take out a loan. Then use that capital to self-promote.
However, by your statements I see you are either an amateur (new to the biz), or are uneducated and ignorant. Don't take that personally, most people don't understand how the Industry works.
First off, your power provider is a government-granted monopoly usually just like your water provider, sewer service, cable company, ans PSTN dial-tone provider. Therefore, you don't have a choice.
In regards to XP, if you don't like the terms of their license you DO have a choice; Linux, Mac, write your own, etc.
While the RIAA and their labels tend to be very slimy, the artists don't have to enter into contracts with them. There are THOUSANDS of independent labels out there. Or, the artist can do things on their own if they want. And the labels DO have a lot to lose if an artist flops; money, and credibility.
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Nuclear attack on a toilet?
Yeah - I've eaten at Taco Bell before.
"Of course, us backwards wierdo liberal faggy Europeans get 6 weeks holiday"
;-)
You forgot to add 'pinko-commie'
I would like to see GPS integrated into the phones. This would be handy for integrating it with Google for maps and getting directions from your current position.
With GPS coordinates combined with a camera (and maybe a compass), metadata could be added to pictures that would not only allow an accurate time stamp, but also show exactly where the photo was taken and maybe even which direction it was facing.
Think of the possibilities...
The theater experience isn't dead, in fact this movie made it come back to life! According to this article:
p e=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-08-22T223648Z_01_ N22280791_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-USA-SNAKES.xml&archive d=False
"Movie chain AMC Entertainment Inc. said pranksters at one of its Phoenix theaters released two live diamondback rattlesnakes during a showing of the film "Snakes on a Plane" last Friday. No one was injured."
Reuters has the story here:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?ty
The right-wing might have changed their attitudes. But I don't think most true authortarians have.
Artists will sign multiple-album contracts with a label so this is hard for many currently signed artists.
On the other hand, someone has to bank-roll the recording/producing and promotion of the album. The record co takes all of the risk in this regard. Of course they have to get into the black before the artists will ever see any money (they usually never do).
This is exactly why government should be limited!
Government without the power to legislate and/or regulate the markets, cannot be used as a tool of special interests to legislate/regulate in their favor. This is one of the main principles behind libertarianism. If the government doesn't interfere in the marketplace, then it can't give anyone a government-granted advantage.
Parody and satire are both fair use defenses for alleged copyright infringement. Parody is something that is used to make fun of itself. Satire is where something is used as a vehicle to make fun of something else, or to make some sort of commentary.
Trademark cases in the US are usually based upon "causing confusion in the marketplace". In other words, if you use someone else's trademark and the court finds it does not cause confusion in the market place, you might be found guilty of statutory infringement only, or the case may be thrown out altogether etc. If the use is found to 'cause confusion in the marketplace' even if it is a parody/satire, then the lawyers will argue this point to a judge and see what happens.
I took two semesters of copyright law in college so I consider myself fairly well educated on the subject.
Just be sure you understand that the classical music you bought wasn't actually discounted. Its price-structure is such that it is designed to be sold for less, not because they had to lower the price just to sell it. I have a degree in the music industry and never understood this until one of my professors who worked for Madacy as an engineer used to produce albums of this nature and explained it to me.
...and caught a glimpse of Uranus!
;-)
sorry - I couldn't resist
maybe he's gay and was thinkin 'bout Uranus!?!?! :-(
Otherwise known as the Comb Filter Effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_filter
..is that acoustical HF in that range is VERY directional. So if it is in your pocket the radiated energy could EASILY be blocked by the fabric of your jeans. For that matter a piece of tape, or even your finger over the speaker or the vent for the transducer will probably block it.
.2573 inches) makes it hard to get to our ears easily without line-of-sight.
I have not seen them in use nor have I heard them, so they might have a way around this. I don't know.
But I am an audio engineer and with HF our ears use a localizing process called 'Interaural amplitude difference' as opposed LF freqs which use 'Interaural time difference' with a resolution 30ms or greater. This combined with the fact that at these freqs the WL is very short (.6534cm or
I am an audio engineer... and the fluid in the basilar membrane will indeed harden over the years with everyone. Some people are more resistant to this than others, but it does happen to everyone in older age with measurable effect. This is called natural hearing loss.
I am 24 and have listened to high volume music for most of my life (concerts, headphones, etc) however I no appreciable hearing loss below 8kHz. I have not been officially tested for over 8k, but I have run tests on myself and it seems that my loss starts around 17-18kHz which is appropriate for my age.
Since I am about to go on tour next week mixing for 20 bands at a traveling rock fest, I got custom molded ear plugs (-15dB attenuators) I had my hearing tested last week. After the test the audiologist flat out told me that even though I have abused my hearing, my genes were strong enough to keep any noticeable noise-induced loss from occurring. Apparently it is not that way with everyone. Some people's genes are allow them to be more resistant to damage than others.
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilar_membrane
Yes - very much so. This topic has been covered by /. several times in the past. For a good read check out some of the following comments:
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/14172
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/13/2
From Wiki regarding Orlando/Central Florida:
"Lockheed-Martin has a large manufacturing facility for missile systems, aeronautical crafts and related high tech research due to Orlando's proximity to the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Since the 1970's and 1980's the area is also home to many computer software and hardware firms, such as IBM. Other notable engineering firms have offices or labs in the Central Florida area: KDF, General Dynamics, Harris, Westinghouse, Siemens, Veritas/Seagate, multiple USAF facilities, Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), Comair Aviation Academy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, GE, Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation (AFAMS), Army Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM), AT&T, Boeing, CAE Systems Flight & Simulation Training, HP, Institute for Simulation and Training, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Systems. The Naval Training Center until a few years ago was one of the two places where nuclear engineers were trained for the US Navy. Now the land has been converted into the Baldwin Park development.
Nearby Maitland is the home of Tiburon, a division of the video game company Electronic Arts. Originally Tiburon Entertainment, it was acquired by EA in 1998 after years of partnership, particularly in the famous Madden NFL series and NCAA Football series of video games.
The U.S. modeling, simulation, and training (MS&T) industry is centered around the Orlando region as well, with a particularly strong presence in the Central Florida Research Park adjacent to UCF."
Well, if you are talking about "surviving on the profits" that is an entirely different situation entirely.
It is harder and harder to actually make a profit on recorded music these days. This includes everyone from bar bands, indipendent labels, and even the Big 5/4/3/whomever they are these days.
The industry has been transitioning from one phase to another recently. Originally the recordings were designed to promote the live shows. That changed with Sgt. Pepper/Beatles and until very recently, the biz model was cenetered aronud the recordings. Now with the Net that is starting to change back to where the recordings are starting to support the live shows.
But here is a hint. Unless you are Elton John, Greenday, Madonna, Metallica etc, you generally WON'T make any profit from your recordings. Everyone else other than the top %.01 can only make money off of their live shows, publishing deals, and licensing for film/games/commercials.
I think you are a bit confused. WalMart only carries a very very very VERY small fraction of albums released each year. Granted those releases often (but not always) generate $$millions for the Industry, but in terms of quantity of albums released, WalMart is a very small selection.
As far as distribution methods, do you really think that someone can stop MySpace, BitTorrent, LimeWire, P2P etc? Or what about other independent websites, or Internet radio? And actually, now with the Internet, it is easier than EVER for a musician or act to be heard by a nationaal or even an international audience.
I'd say that the labels are on the downside of their death grip on distribution. I work in the industry and also have a degree in it. I live in Nashville and see this stuff on a daily basis.
That might have been true 10 years ago, maybe even 5 years ago.
h tm
But now ANYONE can record, duplicate, and distribute their music very easily. With broadband almost everywhere, it only takes a few seconds to d/l a single, and a few minutes to download an album. With recording equipment being very prolific and MySpace's popularity the labels are losing (I would say have already lost) their death grip on distribution to the public.
I work in the Industry, and I agree the labels are very cut-throat and slimy, perhaps even illegal at times. But I think the convictions you are talking about are more about price-fixing and the co-op advertsing deals.
Check out:
http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.
The labels don't rob anyone of anything. The copyright holders have to willfully transfer copyrights to the labels. I know of no such situation of this happening at gunpoint or under a situation of duress which would thus invalidate the contract. Both parties agree on the contract.
You are on the right track about radio airplay however. There is a fine line between that and 'payola', however there are a lot of backroom deals that go on. Airtime is limited and a song's life-cycle is finite.
Most bands just starting out can get cheap recording time or even buy their recording equipment and do it in their own homes. I know of many albums that were very well done in the comfort of their own living room. Of course the people doing the recording have to know what they are doing of course.
Most acts don't form and then first get into a record contract. Most acts (unless the individual members are already established) do live shows. After doing live shows they pool their money together to get a recording done. Then they do more live shows and have synergy between the shows and the recorded CD. If they are good, and there is a market in their genre for their style, then they will begin to build a name for themselves OVER TIME in a geographic area. At this point if they get bigger and bigger a record company A&R guy will eventually hear about them and then approach them and perhaps offer them a deal.
Most acts don't make mega-fame or mega-bucks. The only reason a few do is because the labels put all of their efforts behind them. It is VERY hard to make an ROI in the Industry. The labels have a lot of risk and a lot of liability when they sign a new act. Not to say that some of their tactics and practices aren't crappy, but again, everyone has to agree to enter into it willfully.
There is a book written by this guy: http://mtsu.edu/~record/hull.html which talks about that. In fact it includes 3 income streams: publishing/songwriting, recording, and live performance and shows how each stream interacts with one another.
I fail to see your point about copyright law hurting current artists. The art is theirs, it belongs to them. The ONLY way someone else can exploit it is with the original author's permission (via a recording/publishing contract etc).
Get an investor, several investors, or take out a loan. Then use that capital to self-promote.
However, by your statements I see you are either an amateur (new to the biz), or are uneducated and ignorant. Don't take that personally, most people don't understand how the Industry works.
First off, your power provider is a government-granted monopoly usually just like your water provider, sewer service, cable company, ans PSTN dial-tone provider. Therefore, you don't have a choice.
In regards to XP, if you don't like the terms of their license you DO have a choice; Linux, Mac, write your own, etc.
While the RIAA and their labels tend to be very slimy, the artists don't have to enter into contracts with them. There are THOUSANDS of independent labels out there. Or, the artist can do things on their own if they want. And the labels DO have a lot to lose if an artist flops; money, and credibility.
I would suggest 3(4) books:
The Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey
ISBN: 0785263268
http://daveramsey.com/
Multiple Streams of Income - Robert G. Allen
ISBN: 0471714550
and
The Millionare Mind/The Millionare Next Door - Thomas Stanley
ISBN: 0740718584 / ISBN: 0671015206
All of these should be available at your local public non-school library.