Fair enough. It sounded like you were talking about the suburbs. Anyway, I think this is at best a longshot to happen, and if it does, I'd imagine it'd just be "downtown" to appease businesses and visitors... Your average Joe Sixpack in NE Philly isn't likely to see any of this.
> There are however a LOT of suburbs that are > considered Philadelphia as well
No there aren't. The City of Philadelphia is very well defined. The "suburbs" (Delaware, Chester, Bucks, and Montgomery counties) obviously wouldn't be subject to this legislation because the City Council and John Street only have jurisdiction over the city itself. Now, whether they chose to apply it just to Center City is a different story, but there are no "suburbs that are considered Philadelphia." Either you live in the city or you don't, and if you don't, this doesn't apply to you.
Penn State has its paws (ha!) in everything else in the state of Pennsylvania. Might as well start selling music... Just another revenue stream, right?
Anyway, for those who are interested in the finer details that were glossed over by the article, here is a transcript of the discussion...
(Disclaimer: I have a B.S. and an M.Eng. from Penn State, and I think Spanier is a complete buffoon. But I think he's onto something here.)
There are only so many original riffs you can come up with, people... You have to allow for re-use. Otherwise, you might as well sue Led Zeppelin (Babe I'm Gonna Leave You) and Chicago (25 or 6 to 4) for ripping off the chord progression to the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." You're going to see familiar melodies, progressions, riffs repeated throughout music. There just aren't enough combinations and permutations to prevent it.
Bah, the artists will just spend any extra money on cocaine and Jack Daniels. Rappers will likely substitute chronic and Cristal... but you get the idea.
Yeah, Popfile is the king. I'm at >97% effectiveness with Popfile. That's with seven different email accounts, totalling about 20-30 spam mails each day. Most of the 2% failures are false negatives. I don't think I've had but 3 or 4 false positives in the months I've been running Popfile.
I'm a little confused... I went to the Canadian gov't web site and I couldn't figure out which of these two guys is the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Can someone please clarify?
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Fair enough. It sounded like you were talking about the suburbs. Anyway, I think this is at best a longshot to happen, and if it does, I'd imagine it'd just be "downtown" to appease businesses and visitors... Your average Joe Sixpack in NE Philly isn't likely to see any of this.
> There are however a LOT of suburbs that are
> considered Philadelphia as well
No there aren't. The City of Philadelphia is very well defined. The "suburbs" (Delaware, Chester, Bucks, and Montgomery counties) obviously wouldn't be subject to this legislation because the City Council and John Street only have jurisdiction over the city itself. Now, whether they chose to apply it just to Center City is a different story, but there are no "suburbs that are considered Philadelphia." Either you live in the city or you don't, and if you don't, this doesn't apply to you.
Penn State has its paws (ha!) in everything else in the state of Pennsylvania. Might as well start selling music... Just another revenue stream, right? Anyway, for those who are interested in the finer details that were glossed over by the article, here is a transcript of the discussion... (Disclaimer: I have a B.S. and an M.Eng. from Penn State, and I think Spanier is a complete buffoon. But I think he's onto something here.)
Yeah, and a quick read of the article informs you that Dre had another musician play the bass line.
But wait, this is Slashdot, what am I doing reading the article.
There are only so many original riffs you can come up with, people... You have to allow for re-use. Otherwise, you might as well sue Led Zeppelin (Babe I'm Gonna Leave You) and Chicago (25 or 6 to 4) for ripping off the chord progression to the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." You're going to see familiar melodies, progressions, riffs repeated throughout music. There just aren't enough combinations and permutations to prevent it.
Bah, the artists will just spend any extra money on cocaine and Jack Daniels. Rappers will likely substitute chronic and Cristal... but you get the idea.
Yeah, now for the rest of us who aren't subscribing, Slasdhot stories are 3 days and 20 minutes out of date, instead of just 3 days.
I just wish I could mod down the stupid notice that begs me to subscribe every time I come to the page.
Yeah, Popfile is the king. I'm at >97% effectiveness with Popfile. That's with seven different email accounts, totalling about 20-30 spam mails each day. Most of the 2% failures are false negatives. I don't think I've had but 3 or 4 false positives in the months I've been running Popfile.
I'm a little confused... I went to the Canadian gov't web site and I couldn't figure out which of these two guys is the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Can someone please clarify?
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