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Media-Party
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Speaker: Hall of Memories, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Chicks have just announced on Facebook that they're closing early next year.
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Up Front: So Farewell Then, UCSA, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
As Pavement sang,"Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch, never build a building till you're 50 what kind of a life is that".
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I remember trawling the queue for Orientation as a 16 year old to find a student who would take me in as their guest. This would have been in 1988. Anyone could buy a ticket but you needed a UCSA member to gain entry, but once you did you could buy alcohol at the bar. There was about four of us that did this every year of high school. We'd spend hours in the week before it started pouring over the band list and plotting our trips up and down the stairs between common rooms. Inside we saw Sneaky Feelings, Look Blue Go Purple, Headless Chickens (with Rupert), Bailter Space, JPSE, Pihead, Go-Betweens,Strangeloves, Bats, Verlaines, Chris Knox, even Sam Hunt. Too many to remember (but never the Gordons). Later on I played at a few, including one gig on the platform over the river where our bass player didn't make it and Paul Kean let me play his (rather iconic) bass guitar.
In the mid nineties I was a student there. I once asked Paul if there were any jobs going that would net me a free ticket to Superchunk, Buffalo Tom and the 3D's, and he said yeah, ok, you can hang backstage.
Then I met a girl on the riverbank one day and we ended up dropping out to have a baby. -
Hard News: Friday Music: The next Soundcloud?, in reply to Russell Brown,
You're dead right, I always confuse soundcloud and bandcamp.
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The big problem with the BPRS and soundcloud is that they are after royalties for their artists, but the way soundcloud works is that the artists post their own music and collect their own revenue. Anyone who has followed Blink's debate with APRA will be aware that collection agencies are unwilling/unable to distribute funds back to where they are actually collected from. So if this lawsuit is successful a collection agency like APRA will start taking a percentage of the revenue that was going directly to the artist and, instead, place it into their 'pool' where it will get distributed based on radio plays as it does now and money that I used to get will now go to Neil Finn and Lorde.
Labels and collection agencies have no place in what was once a very tidy provider/artist/audience environment. -
Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
You will never have an exclusive copyright on your version ( if indeed you really do, I wouldn't be certain that the court would agree with your definition of typography, It is undefined in the legislation, but I wouldn't feel safe saying that copying text into a html file constitutes typography). Once the text is copied from your website your 'typography' is obliterated, so then once I paste it into my website does my typography copyright come into effect? Does that act of pasting make it a derivative work?
As for commercial re-use, unless you have specific licence from the owners of the copyright then you have no right at all to profit off the copyrights of others. Press releases, like everything else, fall under the fair dealing exemptions.
As for 'tagging' them, a tag is nothing more than a fact about what is in a text, and facts are not copyrightable.With respect I think you are both wrong and walking a fine line. Even if you are right there is nothing stopping somebody else from taking all those press releases and undercutting you, whichever way you slice it your business is, at heart, based on work that you don't exclusively own.
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
More importantly though the approach to news copyright which Scoop has adopted is not limited to use with Press Releases.
Where it does relate to press releases, though, you have no control over how that information is used, and you certainly have no right to charge other people to use it.
I notice you put a ©scoop under press releases, but nothing you've done -layout, hosting etc - puts a separate copyright on the work. -
Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
And there is also Scoop's new approach to news copyright. which is gaining traction fast.
Wouldn't "new approach to licensing content" be a better descriptor as large part of your content is copyrighted to the organisations that wrote the press releases.
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Hard News: NZME and you, in reply to Russell Brown,
While Google raked in a revenue of $3.98 billion from mobile ad and Facebook pocketed $1.53 billion, Apple's mobile ad earnings can be considered meager at $258 million.
This is why Apple is allowing ad-blockers in safari on the iPhone. Not to improve the browsing experience of its customers but to, as the largest supplier of eyeballs to adverts in the mobile market, slash the incomes of google and Facebook while creating a modest market for themselves inside news.
Incidentally, when News dropped Wired were onboard as a release partner, featuring prominently on apples news page. They held a story back from the website to make it a news exclusive and have pissed off their last 12 readers