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. [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes pictures are better than words. The French Assembly has voted to give the music and film industries the power to switch off the Internet access of anyone who they accuse of pirating copyrighted files. Media futurist Greg Leonard commented on it. Liberté, égalité, fraternité? Mais non!
The Pirate’s Dilemma is a book on trends and changes in the way consumers, authors and the law deal with copyright and the sharing of (illegal) content. Is filesharing and downloading truly an infringement of the creator’s rights, or does it also stimulate creativity? From http://thepiratesdilemma.com/about-the-book:
How do you start a movement with a marker pen? [...]
