All the other comments of "consult someone else" are very good.
Before you do that, ask your boss to give examples of websites that have elements of design s/he is thinking of. "Punched-up" is WAY too open to interpretation. For all you know your boss could have seen one website that has some 'really cool' Flash / mash-up thing, and thinks that what YOUR website needs.
Whatever I agreed to in the EULA is always subject to the limitations it may find on my network.
So while I may click "I Agree", that is agreement in principle only and by no means a guarantee that the OS will actually be able to complete said auto-update.
Presuming for a minute that the web radio 'reform' would have ensured proper royalty rates being collected, what does 'preventing stream ripping' have to do with that? A stream is a stream, if they can count it (and get their 'royalty pymt'), why does it matter to them if that stream is going right to someones ears, or being ripped?
As far as crossfading, mid-song jingles, etc, if i was web radio broadcaster, I'd say to Sound Exchange, record companies, etc: "if i am playing the song, and paying you for it, I want to play the song, the entire song, and nothing but the song. Anything less than that, meaning crossfading, etc, is more like a fair use excerpt of the song, and should not be counted as a 'play'".
Here's a test: put a piece of tableture in front of a piano player who can sight-read music. Can they reproduce the music on the piano by reading the tableture? Didn't think so. Why? Because THERE IS NO MUSICAL INFORMATION IN TABLETURE!
Tableture defined as a "transcription of music" really stretches the defintion of transcription. Tableture does not convey actual pitches of notes. It is simply "put your finger here, then there". Unless the recording I used as reference had a voice saying "G string, fifth fret, now do B string, first fret", no 'transcription of music' is taking place with tableture
By contrast, when you 'transcribe' a piece of music, you are reproducing *in standard musical notation*, the pitches of the notes and their associated rythmic values of a piece of music. Transcribed properly, you end up with sheet music that any sight- reading musician can reproduce via voice or instrument. If I were to distribute such a transcription, yes I may be infringing. (which is another point: if I transcribe Stairway To heaven incorrectly, then share my transcription, did I infringe?).
At my previous job (Fortune 500 company), I led a team that maintained a website for customers to log in and work with their insurance policies. The site had lots of IE-specific code from the contractor who originally designed the site. When I took it over I pushed for resources to remove the IE-only cruft, to no avail.
...until the day when the 90-year old founder of the company using Firefox could not log into the site. It then became very visible (from the CIO on down), and then they approached me: "OK, what do we have to do make the site work with Firefox", not only did I get the resources to make it compatible w/ FF, they also took my advice to purchase a Mac and make the site Safari-compatible, too!
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Before you do that, ask your boss to give examples of websites that have elements of design s/he is thinking of. "Punched-up" is WAY too open to interpretation. For all you know your boss could have seen one website that has some 'really cool' Flash / mash-up thing, and thinks that what YOUR website needs.
So while I may click "I Agree", that is agreement in principle only and by no means a guarantee that the OS will actually be able to complete said auto-update.
As far as crossfading, mid-song jingles, etc, if i was web radio broadcaster, I'd say to Sound Exchange, record companies, etc: "if i am playing the song, and paying you for it, I want to play the song, the entire song, and nothing but the song. Anything less than that, meaning crossfading, etc, is more like a fair use excerpt of the song, and should not be counted as a 'play'".
Here's a test: put a piece of tableture in front of a piano player who can sight-read music. Can they reproduce the music on the piano by reading the tableture? Didn't think so. Why? Because THERE IS NO MUSICAL INFORMATION IN TABLETURE! Tableture defined as a "transcription of music" really stretches the defintion of transcription. Tableture does not convey actual pitches of notes. It is simply "put your finger here, then there". Unless the recording I used as reference had a voice saying "G string, fifth fret, now do B string, first fret", no 'transcription of music' is taking place with tableture By contrast, when you 'transcribe' a piece of music, you are reproducing *in standard musical notation*, the pitches of the notes and their associated rythmic values of a piece of music. Transcribed properly, you end up with sheet music that any sight- reading musician can reproduce via voice or instrument. If I were to distribute such a transcription, yes I may be infringing. (which is another point: if I transcribe Stairway To heaven incorrectly, then share my transcription, did I infringe?).