Posts Tagged ‘buma’

Copyright killed the video star October 2, 2009 No Comments

Copyright killed the video star from Kicks for Free on Vimeo.
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh-a oh. You might have heard of the new Buma/Stemra law called Fair Play. They will charge the whole Dutch web community for embedding musicclips. [...]

this post will cost us 650 euro October 1, 2009 No Comments

Today Dutch copyright organization Buma launched the Fair Play license. They charge blogs for embedding. It’s like calling Vinnie Jones an elegant soccer star. Read more on it here. This new law would mean the death of blogs like this. Of blogs that promote culture and don’t make any money out of it. We hope [...]