I think you might be confused. ASCAP/BMI/SESAC - the 3 PROs handle covers or live performances of songs that you have not written yourself. Usually the venue owner or the producer/promoter is responsible for paying these fees to the Performing Rights Org.
To actually RECORD a song that you have not written is called a mechanical license. You get this from the songwriter, puiblisher, and Harry Fox Agency.
You might know this, but it didn't come across in your post...
Recording a song someone else has writtend and has already been recorded by another artist is NOT called a cover. It is called a mechanical repdocution. Money is owed to the songwriter via the publisher and the Harry Fox Agency.
Performing a song someone else has written in a live performace requires a license from ASCAP/BMI/SESAC one of the Performing Rights Orgs.
The person responsible for obtaining the PRO rights is the venue owner or the producer/promoter for that specifc show.
You only have to pay BMI/ASCAP/SESAC when you perform the copyrighted material live. If you are making a mechanical reproduction (recording) of the song, then you do not need to deal with them. For that you deal with the Harry Fox Agency who deals with the publisher/author.
Well, I am an audio engineer and have had a couple of upper level copyright law courses in college.
The way I understand it, you don't have the right to make a mechanical copy of that song. In otherwords, the original songwriter/composer has NOT given you the right to record that song using either live or sequenced instruments.
Now, once that song has been recorded once, he must authorize you to be able to make a recording of it if you want to. The statutory rate I believe is $.08/copy distributed. So, if Eminem writes a song, records it, and puts it on his next CD, if Usher wanted to record that song himself, he could as long as he paid Eminem (the author) the $.08/copy for that song. Eminem cannot deny Usher, or anyone else for that matter, from making a mechanical copy (recording) of that song.
Therefore, if you were to get the MIDI file, or sequence it yoruself, as long as you didn't distribute it to anyone and didn't leave the realm of fair use, you would be ok. But as soon as you begin to distribute that song you would be in violation of copyright. You would PROBABLY own the rights to the sound recording, but not the mechanical license to reproduce the original song.
There is a MAJOR difference between Arabs coming into the country, and Mexicans or Hatians coming into the country.
Mexicans and Hatians all originate from a Judeo-Christian culture which is founded on the same ideas. They believe in our type of democracy, same ideas of religion (close enough anyway), and very similar ideas of how society should function.
Arabs or Muslims do NOT share these same basic ideas and cultural values and norms. Thus they cannot really assimilate or even function very well in a Judeo-Christian based society. One classic example of this is government. We do not feel that the church and state should be the same; they do! Many Arabs believe that the leader of the church should be the leader of the state which goes against everything we believe in the Western Civ.
Your amp should have internal clip circuitry detection that prevents blown transducers.
Also, it will be interesting to see what happens with SACD/DVD audio. With a greater dynamic range (CDs have 96dB and DVDs have 124dB) maybe things won't have to be squashed as much to raise the precieved loudness....and yes IAAAE (I Am An Audio Engineer)
I am an audio engineer, live in Nashville, and tend to deal with copyright issues on a regular basis.
To clear a few things I'm going to post a few simple realities:
There are currently 3 types of property in the US: 1) Personal - should be obvious 2) Real - land/buildings 3) "Intellectual"
There are mostly 3 types of "Intellectual Properties" 1) Patents - systems, processess, formulas, etc 2) Copyrights - original writings or works of art from an author or artist 3) Trademarks - logo, name, design, slogan 4) Trade Secrets - anything a company uses secretly which is not patented
Novelty and inventiveness are required for a patent, but not for a copyright.
Anything that has a minimal degree of creativity meets the threshold for copyright can be copyrighted
A creative work is copyrighted the instant it is put in the form of a tangiable medium.
IDEAS ARE NOT PROTECTED BUT WORKS THAT CONTAIN IDEAS ARE COPYRIGHTABLE.
What can be copyrighted? Literary works, musical works (including lyrics), dramatic works (music too), pantemines, cheorographic works, pictorial, graphic, scupltural work, motion picture, a/v works, animations, sound recordings, archetectual works.
Ok.... now with that - I do not see exactly HOW IN THE HELL these guys got a patent on this?!?!!?!?!?!
This is a creative work of art, NOT a process, protocol, forumula, etc...
I'll never forget going to my community college in Orlando when they were starting their recording program.
They moved us from room to room because of our noise (we recorded a lot of metal) and we were next to a computer lab for a few months. They hadn't found a suitable place to set up a permanent studio for the program yet.
Well, to record we had to shut off the HVAC/AC so that the rumble wouldn't raise the noise floor of the recording. Needless to say, the computer lab people next door were PISSED every time we felt the need to lay down tracks!
Once the sound gets around 100Hz and below you don't hear it as much as you "feel" or "sense" it. If you have a 5.1 surround system in your house with a sub, the sub will be crossed over anywhere from 90Hz to 150Hz meaning only those frequencies are sent to it to be reproduced.
I've always wanted to go speeding through the state in my car, get a ticket, and then appeal it on the basis that the state is unlawful and based on the US Constitution doesn't really exist. Somehow though I think someone has already tried that.
My high school physics teachjer would go on rants all the time about what actually moved down the line, the "hole" or the electrons themselves.
His name was Dr. Troy Soos and worked for Los Alamos for a while. Then he decided to write baseball murder mysteries (apparently that makes more money than being a research scientiest).
Hate to break it to ya... even if you are a billionaire, it won't do much good against the current establishment of Demirubs and Republicrats. Look at Ross Perot; a Texas billionaire and was not able to get a signifigant amount of the votes. He did change the climate of discussion during the election in which he ran from emotional soundbytes to facts and figures. Unfortunately even with all of his money and power, it didn't do much to change things.
I think we need more parties that are decent size. If the Christians formed a party, the Libertarians and the Constitution party merged and increased their size, if the Green Party began to pull from the Democrats, etc etc and these parties began to actually detract from the establishment, we would start to see a change. Forget running for president - these parties would need to start in the local and federal legislature. All they need is 1/3rd of the bodies in some places, and then the other two parties would HAVE to play ball with them in order to pass any legislation.
Well... you could have a blacklight at the door of one of the back bedrooms so when a chick exit everyone can look and check for "glow in the dark liquids" around around her mouth;-)
I appareciate the US unions for one simple reason:
If they had not provided a counter balance to our lassie-faire corporations running amock, I think we would've turned communist.
Our best economic growth and even a revolution, an indisutrial revolution, which transformed the US and the world came about becasue of the very libertarian and lassie-faire attitude the government held of the free market. Unfortunately the working conditions were not very good and tended to cause a populist uprising. Fortunately they formed unions and didn't overthrow the government - or vote red.
But I do agree, a lot of the unions have largely outlived their usefulness in the present day. But I would've rather had them the the commies. At least there is still a relatively free market,
I would have to say that the free market is able to handle itself.
However, I do think that at this point in time it would be impractical to completely eliminate the FCC. Think of it like driving on the roads - no we don't HAVE to have trsffic laws, but if we didn't there would be sooooooo many lawsuits it would be insane.
My libertarian views are such that I know things will usually work themselves out. However libertarian =| anarchy and there still need to be some basic laws in place to prevent chaos.
With that being said, I think the FCC could be downsized by AT LEAST 20-40$. The rest of the federal gov could be downsized as a whole by 80%!
As a ham radio operator and an audio engineer (I do sound at major concerts and engineer recordings), this is not likely for several reasons:
1) People with large sound systems in their vehicle usually listen to their own media, not broadcast radio.
2) More than likley, the cabling for the system is shielded from RF interference. Although most are probably not perfect, but good enough to resist what you are suggesting.
3) Most (decent) amplifiers have a clip/surge/peak/spike circuitry design to prevent this very thing. If you listen to broadcast radio and are standing 2 miles from the tower it isn't really "louder" than 10 miles from the tower. Even as you move in and out of the signal pattern and static pops, you don't really blow your speakers or your electronics - they are designed to protect against this.
Now, an EMP would do the trick;-)
And finally, yes I realize you were making a joke but hey, it's 02:50am and I ain't got nothing else better to do than make this post.
Oddly enough there was an interesting article about CNN's "Situation Room" with video walls and such. They talk about how the producer wanted to be like a war room in the White House or Pentagon or some such nonsense. Essentially this article discusses exactly your point.
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I think you might be confused. ASCAP/BMI/SESAC - the 3 PROs handle covers or live performances of songs that you have not written yourself. Usually the venue owner or the producer/promoter is responsible for paying these fees to the Performing Rights Org.
To actually RECORD a song that you have not written is called a mechanical license. You get this from the songwriter, puiblisher, and Harry Fox Agency.
You might know this, but it didn't come across in your post...
Recording a song someone else has writtend and has already been recorded by another artist is NOT called a cover. It is called a mechanical repdocution. Money is owed to the songwriter via the publisher and the Harry Fox Agency.
Performing a song someone else has written in a live performace requires a license from ASCAP/BMI/SESAC one of the Performing Rights Orgs.
The person responsible for obtaining the PRO rights is the venue owner or the producer/promoter for that specifc show.
Exactly... these are designated as Circle P and Circle C. P stands for phonorecording and C stands for copyright which is the lyrics/composition.
You only have to pay BMI/ASCAP/SESAC when you perform the copyrighted material live. If you are making a mechanical reproduction (recording) of the song, then you do not need to deal with them. For that you deal with the Harry Fox Agency who deals with the publisher/author.
Well, I am an audio engineer and have had a couple of upper level copyright law courses in college.
:-P
The way I understand it, you don't have the right to make a mechanical copy of that song. In otherwords, the original songwriter/composer has NOT given you the right to record that song using either live or sequenced instruments.
Now, once that song has been recorded once, he must authorize you to be able to make a recording of it if you want to. The statutory rate I believe is $.08/copy distributed. So, if Eminem writes a song, records it, and puts it on his next CD, if Usher wanted to record that song himself, he could as long as he paid Eminem (the author) the $.08/copy for that song. Eminem cannot deny Usher, or anyone else for that matter, from making a mechanical copy (recording) of that song.
Therefore, if you were to get the MIDI file, or sequence it yoruself, as long as you didn't distribute it to anyone and didn't leave the realm of fair use, you would be ok. But as soon as you begin to distribute that song you would be in violation of copyright. You would PROBABLY own the rights to the sound recording, but not the mechanical license to reproduce the original song.
Clear as mud? Welcome to copyright law
There is a MAJOR difference between Arabs coming into the country, and Mexicans or Hatians coming into the country.
Mexicans and Hatians all originate from a Judeo-Christian culture which is founded on the same ideas. They believe in our type of democracy, same ideas of religion (close enough anyway), and very similar ideas of how society should function.
Arabs or Muslims do NOT share these same basic ideas and cultural values and norms. Thus they cannot really assimilate or even function very well in a Judeo-Christian based society. One classic example of this is government. We do not feel that the church and state should be the same; they do! Many Arabs believe that the leader of the church should be the leader of the state which goes against everything we believe in the Western Civ.
If you want to know exactly how the math and science behind this works visit this page:
...and yes IAAAE (I Am An Audio Engineer)
http://physics.mtsu.edu/~wmr/log_3.htm
It tells you how to calculate Pascals, SPL, Watts, dB, and SIL and how they are all related.
Your amp should have internal clip circuitry detection that prevents blown transducers.
...and yes IAAAE (I Am An Audio Engineer)
Also, it will be interesting to see what happens with SACD/DVD audio. With a greater dynamic range (CDs have 96dB and DVDs have 124dB) maybe things won't have to be squashed as much to raise the precieved loudness.
I am an audio engineer, live in Nashville, and tend to deal with copyright issues on a regular basis.
To clear a few things I'm going to post a few simple realities:
There are currently 3 types of property in the US:
1) Personal - should be obvious
2) Real - land/buildings
3) "Intellectual"
There are mostly 3 types of "Intellectual Properties"
1) Patents - systems, processess, formulas, etc
2) Copyrights - original writings or works of art from an author or artist
3) Trademarks - logo, name, design, slogan
4) Trade Secrets - anything a company uses secretly which is not patented
Novelty and inventiveness are required for a patent, but not for a copyright.
Anything that has a minimal degree of creativity meets the threshold for copyright can be copyrighted
A creative work is copyrighted the instant it is put in the form of a tangiable medium.
IDEAS ARE NOT PROTECTED BUT WORKS THAT CONTAIN IDEAS ARE COPYRIGHTABLE.
What can be copyrighted?
Literary works, musical works (including lyrics), dramatic works (music too), pantemines, cheorographic works, pictorial, graphic, scupltural work, motion picture, a/v works, animations, sound recordings, archetectual works.
Ok.... now with that - I do not see exactly HOW IN THE HELL these guys got a patent on this?!?!!?!?!?!
This is a creative work of art, NOT a process, protocol, forumula, etc...
I'll never forget going to my community college in Orlando when they were starting their recording program.
They moved us from room to room because of our noise (we recorded a lot of metal) and we were next to a computer lab for a few months. They hadn't found a suitable place to set up a permanent studio for the program yet.
Well, to record we had to shut off the HVAC/AC so that the rumble wouldn't raise the noise floor of the recording. Needless to say, the computer lab people next door were PISSED every time we felt the need to lay down tracks!
I am an audio engineer...
Once the sound gets around 100Hz and below you don't hear it as much as you "feel" or "sense" it. If you have a 5.1 surround system in your house with a sub, the sub will be crossed over anywhere from 90Hz to 150Hz meaning only those frequencies are sent to it to be reproduced.
If the rule of law prevailed, West Virginia's government would be disbanded and all assets and governence returned to Virginia.
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WV is not a legal state as recognized by the US Constitution. They formed without consent of the state of Virginia thus they are not a legal entity.
Don't believe me? Check it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_West_Virg
I've always wanted to go speeding through the state in my car, get a ticket, and then appeal it on the basis that the state is unlawful and based on the US Constitution doesn't really exist. Somehow though I think someone has already tried that.
It will look like this:
http://www.giveboobs.com/nuclear.jpg
(safe for work)
Some of you may remember this scene from one of the Naked Gun movies.
How it was explained to me was that think of it as water being able to be in the state of ice, liquid, and gas.
Of course that is one of the great "mysteries" of the faith but it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
I think people spend too much time thinking about the specifics, and ithis is the part where science DOESNT help to understand anything.
Actually I hate to break it to ya..
But the God of Moses is actually called Yahweh. Jesus was the son of Yahweh - Jehovah; two distinct and seperate entities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh
My high school physics teachjer would go on rants all the time about what actually moved down the line, the "hole" or the electrons themselves.
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His name was Dr. Troy Soos and worked for Los Alamos for a while. Then he decided to write baseball murder mysteries (apparently that makes more money than being a research scientiest).
Here is a link to his books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/157
Oddly enough he still teaches high school in Central Florida "just for fun".
Hate to break it to ya... even if you are a billionaire, it won't do much good against the current establishment of Demirubs and Republicrats. Look at Ross Perot; a Texas billionaire and was not able to get a signifigant amount of the votes. He did change the climate of discussion during the election in which he ran from emotional soundbytes to facts and figures. Unfortunately even with all of his money and power, it didn't do much to change things.
I think we need more parties that are decent size. If the Christians formed a party, the Libertarians and the Constitution party merged and increased their size, if the Green Party began to pull from the Democrats, etc etc and these parties began to actually detract from the establishment, we would start to see a change. Forget running for president - these parties would need to start in the local and federal legislature. All they need is 1/3rd of the bodies in some places, and then the other two parties would HAVE to play ball with them in order to pass any legislation.
Well... you could have a blacklight at the door of one of the back bedrooms so when a chick exit everyone can look and check for "glow in the dark liquids" around around her mouth ;-)
I appareciate the US unions for one simple reason:
If they had not provided a counter balance to our lassie-faire corporations running amock, I think we would've turned communist.
Our best economic growth and even a revolution, an indisutrial revolution, which transformed the US and the world came about becasue of the very libertarian and lassie-faire attitude the government held of the free market. Unfortunately the working conditions were not very good and tended to cause a populist uprising. Fortunately they formed unions and didn't overthrow the government - or vote red.
But I do agree, a lot of the unions have largely outlived their usefulness in the present day. But I would've rather had them the the commies. At least there is still a relatively free market,
I would have to say that the free market is able to handle itself.
However, I do think that at this point in time it would be impractical to completely eliminate the FCC. Think of it like driving on the roads - no we don't HAVE to have trsffic laws, but if we didn't there would be sooooooo many lawsuits it would be insane.
My libertarian views are such that I know things will usually work themselves out. However libertarian =| anarchy and there still need to be some basic laws in place to prevent chaos.
With that being said, I think the FCC could be downsized by AT LEAST 20-40$. The rest of the federal gov could be downsized as a whole by 80%!
As a ham radio operator and an audio engineer (I do sound at major concerts and engineer recordings), this is not likely for several reasons:
;-)
1) People with large sound systems in their vehicle usually listen to their own media, not broadcast radio.
2) More than likley, the cabling for the system is shielded from RF interference. Although most are probably not perfect, but good enough to resist what you are suggesting.
3) Most (decent) amplifiers have a clip/surge/peak/spike circuitry design to prevent this very thing. If you listen to broadcast radio and are standing 2 miles from the tower it isn't really "louder" than 10 miles from the tower. Even as you move in and out of the signal pattern and static pops, you don't really blow your speakers or your electronics - they are designed to protect against this.
Now, an EMP would do the trick
And finally, yes I realize you were making a joke but hey, it's 02:50am and I ain't got nothing else better to do than make this post.
Some have mentioned it but here is a screenshot of their NORMAL broadcast:6 .JPG
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http://www.w3.org/Talks/1999/0512-tvweb-www8/IMG0
Oddly enough there was an interesting article about CNN's "Situation Room" with video walls and such. They talk about how the producer wanted to be like a war room in the White House or Pentagon or some such nonsense. Essentially this article discusses exactly your point.
Here is the link:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,68859,0
You shouldn't talk about those Detla Gamma chicks like that!
"Oh crikey... I've gone cross-eyed."
I know.... it was just a joke... I was trying to be funny but apparently failed :-(