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Mar
3
A few thoughts on the BBC’s strategic review: ‘Being efficient and offering better value for money’ is a very subjective principle. In comparison with Sky TV, the BBC offers ‘only’ 7 or 8 full-time equivalent TV channels and a similar number of radio stations. However, if Sky TV disappeared overnight its place in British culture [...]
Nov
4
Download dads lead the iPod generation | Money | The Observer iTunes is an a la carte model: you see the track you like and pay your 79p. A big drawback with iTunes is that it has inbuilt digital rights management (DRM), which prevents you playing ‘your’ music on anything other than an iPod [my [...]
Oct
9
Save the World (no mention of cheerleaders)
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In the continuing quest to rebuild the compilation tape that, as I recall, was the soundtrack to our 1985 summer holiday (along with ‘Brothers In Arms’), and while looking for this week’s free single of the week, I was surprised today to see on the iTunes Music Store that George Harrison’s catalogue has just been [...]
Oct
6
Sony BMG’s chief anti-piracy lawyer: “Copying” music you own is “stealing”: Asked whether it is wrong for people to make copies of music which they have purchased, Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, replied, When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole [...]
May
14
BBC NEWS | ‘The worst show in living memory’ Author Tim Moore wrote a book, Nul Points, about acts which failed to score at the Eurovision Song Contest. He told the BBC News website what he thought of this year’s competition, won by Serbian singer Marija Serifovic, and particularly the performance of UK quartet Scooch, [...]
Feb
12
“Oh God in heaven help me,” and other quotes from British films of yesteryear featured in popular music of the last twenty years over on my last.fm journal.
Nov
25
Billy Bragg writes at the Victoria and Albert Museum Shoeburyness. That name brings back memories of days spent far away from the cares of home, when everything was fun except bedtime. The beaches are still there but the green Morris Oxford has gone the way of so many precious things and I shall never see [...]
Nov
11
Yes, it’s true: the Zune will cost an extra US$50 because Microsoft have entered in to an arrangement with Universal to cover the cost of all those tracks you have not yet stolen. Presumably, Sony will come along soon and ask for their US$50, and WEA… For once, I don’t criticise the music industry about [...]
Oct
29
Nice…
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According to the UK Copyright Service the duration of copyright in Sound Recordings and broadcasts is: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was created, or,if the work is released within that time: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first released. [...]
Sep
23
Hey You! Get a clue! Learn your music. – SoylentBlack’s Journal – Last.fm: ” 4 Jun 2006, 06:06 Calling Baba O’Riley ‘Teenage Wasteland’ pisses me off more than….baby seal clubbing, I guess.” Fella’s got a point. See also Song 2 not called Woo hoo
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