It seem that the CBC was *protecting* the creative commons license, not attacking it.
From the Sparks comments section:
We've been listening to the conversations today regarding a "ban" on the use of Creative Commons music in our podcasts and want to take the opportunity to clarify some of the misconceptions that are floating out there.
The CBC has always embraced new ways of creating and sharing the content we make (in fact, shows like Spark and previously Search Engine were some of the first in Canada to use this type of music license in their programming), however, just like you, we must do so in a way which respects the limits put on that use by the music's creators.
The issue with our use of Creative Commons music is that a lot of our content is readily available on a multitude of platforms, some of which are deemed to be "commercial" in nature (e.g. streaming with pre-roll ads, or pay for download on iTunes) and currently the vast majority of the music available under a Creative Commons license prohibits commercial use.
In order to ensure that we continue to be in line with current Canadian copyright laws, and given the lack of a wide range of music that has a Creative Commons license allowing for commercial use, we made a decision to use music from our production library in our podcasts as this music has the proper usage rights attached.
Everyone can rest easy-- there are no "groups" setting out to stop the use of Creative Commons music at the CBC, and we will continue to use Creative Commons licensed music, pictures etc. across a number of our non-commercial platforms.
We hope this helps clarify things.
Sincerely,
Chris Boyce
Programming Director.
CBC Radio.
SinceSpark is available on areas of the net that are being monetized, which can violate Creative Commons rules (non commercial) on the vast majority of music (and most forms of CC-licensed work) available for use.
With high tech sports like this, the fancy stuff gets a lot of press, but I bet the small stuff will really help out space exploration.
Take the 3D virtual race course technology, not super surprising, but super dam useful for future civilian rocket/space flight applications.
Just having a place, such as a the Rocket Racing league, that provides a venue and funding to develop bleeding edge, high risk tech is a massive boon for progress.
Safety systems, rocket aerodynamics, even flight strategy techniques. It will also provide a new employment pool and a place to get experience for new engineers, flight crew and pilots.
I think the other bonus now is that artists are (or will) be working harder at making a whole album again since people CAN buy single songs on iTunes/online now. Live show are getting better again too. I detect more effort being put into live shows now at ALL levels of musical fame. The whole concept of playing live only because you are supporting and promoting an album is pretty silly for most types of music anyway.
Yes, I know, and I think it is a step in the right direction. The thing is that Radiohead, N.I.N. and co. all went through the "system" first. I can't wait till a significant portion of the worlds popular artists have NEVER had a major label contract. Labels may never die completely, but they will be left with the Britney Spears and Jonas Brothers markets only, and even then they really won't care about music sales, as all the profit in that market is merchandise anyway.
A membership based record store would be interesting, kind of like the old Colombia House mail order thing, put a physical store. Charge a flat-rate for membership, then have the music for sale at 75% off. If you made it so everyone got one free CD a month, I bet a lot of people would pick up a few albums just 'cus they were in the store anyway to get their "Free" CD.
If these media companies keep this shit up, I think a lot of creative people will stop providing them with content.
It would be fun to form a mass co-op type business, pool everyone's cash and buy up as many band contracts as possible just to keep them off the major labels.
I don't know about the States, but up here in Canada they are addicted to Certs, age and University degrees for ANY job, let alone IT stuff.
I am a dual citizen, and moved back to London, England not long after I left high school. I grabbed a job as an IT tech at 19 years old that payed about 45k a year and moved up to 55k with-in 18 months. All they cared about was my experience, and even more important my ability. I moved back to Canada a few years later and was shocked to realize that they were perfectly willing to ignore my experience due to my lack of A+ certs. I got fed up being their "go-to" guy to fix all the cert'ed tech's mistakes, but they still refused to pay me the same.
I moved back to London and picked up an sys administrator job for the media dept. of a large sixth form college that payed 54K a year, day one. The guy I replaced was cert'ed up to his eyeballs, but they fired him because he could not relate to people.
I'm back in Canada for other reasons now, but only now that the baby boomers are starting to retire are companies getting over the age/Certs hang-ups.
Poor state?! Look what the Liberals ended up doing: A Carbon Tax! I laugh at all the conservatives who voted for 'em. They same ones who are wining about the ferry prices after the Libs went and Privatized it(!?).
Yes the BC-NDP were a little too close to the unions, but the unions are dying off now.
What we really need is an NDP-LIB merger. Or, even better a new party positioned between the two on the electoral spectrum. Fuck Harper.
This is the sort of info that should be taught to everyone. The reason the environment it getting creamed is due to corporate greed and industrial pollution that has been in effect for over 90 years!
A book on the real reasons for the banning of Marijuana, other drugs, Prohibition and a whole host of laws "for the public good" that are really their to profit certain people and groups.
Pure genius tho, hi-jacking religious and/or conservative sympathies for profit...oh...wait...
I can use both, but I HATE using PC's for any creative jobs!
A little background for you:
I often work as a Photogpher/Video Editor. But I've also worked as an on call PC tech, setting up networks, VPNs, mass deployments, all the fun stuff. I've bench tech'ed, networked and fixed 1000's of PC's. I know Windows inside and out, but I won't use it for creative jobs, and I try not to let others either.
OS X deals with media files much better then Windows, 'cus OS X leaves them alone. Color-Sync is nice too.
All the "Apple's hardware premium is a rip-off" arguments don't stand up once you start REALLY using Macs in creative enviroments. Even the best PC's cost you time due to tech issues that just don't happen as often on Macs.
As far as tech numbers go, I currently manage two multi-media labs of Macs, solo, which takes our IT department 3-4 PC techs to handle the same numbers on a per Lab basis. Oh, and I have more software packages per computer too.
Ya my spelling is shit, but I should really get back to work, I'm snowed under with all these Macs. Oh wait, I think I'll go create somthing instead.
The scientists never think these things through, do they? This is going to create huge problems for school discipline. Now whenever students are caught shooting spit balls at other students they can claim they were just implanting an airborne pain killer delivery system.
I Think it would be interesting to be able to see 25-50 years into the future right now.
I think the USA is going to blukenize, i.e. split up. The pressure from political, economic and religious groups is going to fracture your country into 3-5 diffrent nations with in a half century.
And from where I sit, I'm looking forword to it. Not that I wish violance and death on anyone. In fact, I think it might be a non-violent split:
1) West: Oragen, Cali, and possibly washington state.
2)North East: New York, Maine ect.
3)The South/Bible Belt
Possibly 4) or 5) Central west, or Cali on it's own.
IBM should release a version of the Cell on a PCI or faster BUS card, or even some sort of crazy processer adapter thingy that one can buy so that Open source programers/users or other interested parties can start using the Cell right away.
The [3D rendering/complex math/video encoding] crowd would love a $200 card that they could just plug in to speed up their rendering buy a factor of 10x.
Is the pure arrogance of this lost on US Policy makers?
When a country makes it clear that they are not interested in your fucked up copyright laws, maybe your laws might not be as good as you think they are.
This sort os stuff is only goint to get worse, as a Canadian, I plan to urge my government to stop trading with the USA as much as possible, and start trading with Europe, or China, or India instead.
I was going more along the lines of intended vs. actual consequences.
Not Sleeping with everyone, I.E. Abstinence = good when no birth control, or STD protection was available.
This gets turned into Sex is Evil and so is birth control in Modern times. The rule was NOT meant to be one of "Morals" but one of common sense. I.E. it was stupid to sleep around with out protection (as NONE was available). The very same argument family planning centers make today, except that STD prevention IS possible now.
Problem is, the church has stuck to a literal interpretation, i.e. NO SEX, NO BIRTH CONTROL, but in areas where Teens and Young adults are strongly recommended to follow church policy, STD, and teem pregnancy rates are higher then in areas where condom use is encouraged.
The very same thing has happened with patents, Companies have taken and old rule, and changed into something else just by enforcing it how they think it should be enforced. And just like the Christian evangelists, to their own advantage.
Slashdot Mirror
SinceSpark is available on areas of the net that are being monetized, which can violate Creative Commons rules (non commercial) on the vast majority of music (and most forms of CC-licensed work) available for use.
Not only is the article dead on, but the author managed to get a Rick-Roll link included in the official post-article link block.
Could these be a good argument for dedicated science journalists for big websites? And by dedicated, I mean *interested* in science.
+ 1 I wish I had MOD points for this!
Canada needs a media reboot, as the media appears to be totally out of line with the people!
With high tech sports like this, the fancy stuff gets a lot of press, but I bet the small stuff will really help out space exploration.
Take the 3D virtual race course technology, not super surprising, but super dam useful for future civilian rocket/space flight applications.
Just having a place, such as a the Rocket Racing league, that provides a venue and funding to develop bleeding edge, high risk tech is a massive boon for progress.
Safety systems, rocket aerodynamics, even flight strategy techniques. It will also provide a new employment pool and a place to get experience for new engineers, flight crew and pilots.
http://www.vimeo.com/1109226
Radiohead were so impressed that hey linked to it from their homepage for a while.
Oh I completely agree!
I think the other bonus now is that artists are (or will) be working harder at making a whole album again since people CAN buy single songs on iTunes/online now. Live show are getting better again too. I detect more effort being put into live shows now at ALL levels of musical fame. The whole concept of playing live only because you are supporting and promoting an album is pretty silly for most types of music anyway.
Yes, I know, and I think it is a step in the right direction. The thing is that Radiohead, N.I.N. and co. all went through the "system" first. I can't wait till a significant portion of the worlds popular artists have NEVER had a major label contract. Labels may never die completely, but they will be left with the Britney Spears and Jonas Brothers markets only, and even then they really won't care about music sales, as all the profit in that market is merchandise anyway.
A membership based record store would be interesting, kind of like the old Colombia House mail order thing, put a physical store. Charge a flat-rate for membership, then have the music for sale at 75% off. If you made it so everyone got one free CD a month, I bet a lot of people would pick up a few albums just 'cus they were in the store anyway to get their "Free" CD.
If these media companies keep this shit up, I think a lot of creative people will stop providing them with content.
It would be fun to form a mass co-op type business, pool everyone's cash and buy up as many band contracts as possible just to keep them off the major labels.
That is right Mods, I am asking you to get off your nice Scooters and do some mod-ing! Ska records and Skanking optional.
I don't know about the States, but up here in Canada they are addicted to Certs, age and University degrees for ANY job, let alone IT stuff.
I am a dual citizen, and moved back to London, England not long after I left high school. I grabbed a job as an IT tech at 19 years old that payed about 45k a year and moved up to 55k with-in 18 months. All they cared about was my experience, and even more important my ability. I moved back to Canada a few years later and was shocked to realize that they were perfectly willing to ignore my experience due to my lack of A+ certs. I got fed up being their "go-to" guy to fix all the cert'ed tech's mistakes, but they still refused to pay me the same.
I moved back to London and picked up an sys administrator job for the media dept. of a large sixth form college that payed 54K a year, day one. The guy I replaced was cert'ed up to his eyeballs, but they fired him because he could not relate to people.
I'm back in Canada for other reasons now, but only now that the baby boomers are starting to retire are companies getting over the age/Certs hang-ups.
Poor state?! Look what the Liberals ended up doing: A Carbon Tax! I laugh at all the conservatives who voted for 'em. They same ones who are wining about the ferry prices after the Libs went and Privatized it(!?). Yes the BC-NDP were a little too close to the unions, but the unions are dying off now. What we really need is an NDP-LIB merger. Or, even better a new party positioned between the two on the electoral spectrum. Fuck Harper.
I skimmed the article my self, and still did not pick up on this Diamond hidden in the ruff :)
This is the sort of info that should be taught to everyone. The reason the environment it getting creamed is due to corporate greed and industrial pollution that has been in effect for over 90 years!
A book on the real reasons for the banning of Marijuana, other drugs, Prohibition and a whole host of laws "for the public good" that are really their to profit certain people and groups.
Pure genius tho, hi-jacking religious and/or conservative sympathies for profit...oh...wait...
I can use both, but I HATE using PC's for any creative jobs!
A little background for you:
I often work as a Photogpher/Video Editor. But I've also worked as an on call PC tech, setting up networks, VPNs, mass deployments, all the fun stuff. I've bench tech'ed, networked and fixed 1000's of PC's. I know Windows inside and out, but I won't use it for creative jobs, and I try not to let others either.
OS X deals with media files much better then Windows, 'cus OS X leaves them alone. Color-Sync is nice too.
All the "Apple's hardware premium is a rip-off" arguments don't stand up once you start REALLY using Macs in creative enviroments. Even the best PC's cost you time due to tech issues that just don't happen as often on Macs.
As far as tech numbers go, I currently manage two multi-media labs of Macs, solo, which takes our IT department 3-4 PC techs to handle the same numbers on a per Lab basis. Oh, and I have more software packages per computer too.
Ya my spelling is shit, but I should really get back to work, I'm snowed under with all these Macs. Oh wait, I think I'll go create somthing instead.
The scientists never think these things through, do they? This is going to create huge problems for school discipline. Now whenever students are caught shooting spit balls at other students they can claim they were just implanting an airborne pain killer delivery system.
"But I was just helping Anne's neck pain..."
Best short reply on /. in ages.
Sorry, I ran out of MOD points yesterday!
Check thy wiki, foo!
What if the Government decides that somthing you think is right, is actualy wrong?
Like Hunting, Fishing, Writing complaint letters...
I Think it would be interesting to be able to see 25-50 years into the future right now.
/Bible Belt
I think the USA is going to blukenize, i.e. split up. The pressure from political, economic and religious groups is going to fracture your country into 3-5 diffrent nations with in a half century.
And from where I sit, I'm looking forword to it. Not that I wish violance and death on anyone. In fact, I think it might be a non-violent split:
1) West: Oragen, Cali, and possibly washington state.
2)North East: New York, Maine ect.
3)The South
Possibly 4) or 5) Central west, or Cali on it's own.
Anyone else have any split predictions?
Thats right, Frogger in real life. I'd love to see the look on people's faces that come across a real life game of frogger.
With Cosstumes.
I have an interesting sugestion for IBM:
IBM should release a version of the Cell on a PCI or faster BUS card, or even some sort of crazy processer adapter thingy that one can buy so that Open source programers/users or other interested parties can start using the Cell right away.
The [3D rendering/complex math/video encoding] crowd would love a $200 card that they could just plug in to speed up their rendering buy a factor of 10x.
Is the pure arrogance of this lost on US Policy makers?
When a country makes it clear that they are not interested in your fucked up copyright laws, maybe your laws might not be as good as you think they are.
This sort os stuff is only goint to get worse, as a Canadian, I plan to urge my government to stop trading with the USA as much as possible, and start trading with Europe, or China, or India instead.
Well, I like your interpretation better :)
I was going more along the lines of intended vs. actual consequences.
Not Sleeping with everyone, I.E. Abstinence = good when no birth control, or STD protection was available.
This gets turned into Sex is Evil and so is birth control in Modern times. The rule was NOT meant to be one of "Morals" but one of common sense. I.E. it was stupid to sleep around with out protection (as NONE was available). The very same argument family planning centers make today, except that STD prevention IS possible now.
Problem is, the church has stuck to a literal interpretation, i.e. NO SEX, NO BIRTH CONTROL, but in areas where Teens and Young adults are strongly recommended to follow church policy, STD, and teem pregnancy rates are higher then in areas where condom use is encouraged.
The very same thing has happened with patents, Companies have taken and old rule, and changed into something else just by enforcing it how they think it should be enforced. And just like the Christian evangelists, to their own advantage.