Posts by Robbie Siataga
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at a push push, it sounds like he's trippin out on you :)
...now where's my coat ?
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Cheers Russell, it sux eh ?
I know first hand how little on line artists get paid and how hard it is to get actual figures and payment from agents in other countries. For us it was never about making money on line, so were prepared to write it off, especially for the boutique beats we were pimping.
Even big labels who deal with shifting serious units are dodgy as to get info and payment from and if english is their second language...good luck
And on the other note, whooop de fucking dooo... free advertising !!! I think i still got some B-net ad space from licensing tracks to 'loop' aaaages ago which i will never use.
In NZ, videos are just an ad/promotional vehicle for the artist and I doubt anyone could re coup the cost of a vid from royalties given the shelf life of your average pop song. Or that vids would ever get made without the NZoA handout and dont get me started on their selection process :)
As it stands you could just embed whatever you wanted to advertise in/under your vid.
So will artists be able to on sell their ads in exchange for product placement/ embedded logos and cash ?
and can artists use the ads to make political statements ?
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Not sure. There is an agreement, but I can't work out exactly what it is..
Yeah i cant see Mediaworks or IMNZ would want the details in public before the tribunal findings are released.
It could compromise collection of IMNZ artist royalties in territories outside NZ. Sure the PPNZ affiliated members in other countries would still collect but they might not want to pay and without access to the books theres no recourse for enquiry.
Copyright collection agencies aren't known for being open and forthright in their dealings. Even more so now the'd want to close up shop and lock down their monopoly by calling broadcasters bluff.
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So is IMNZ going to collect and distribute royalties on behalf of its members instead of PPNZ ?
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So how is it Brendan Smyth and NZoA will fund an NZ american ripoff artist with an unsavoury video and name but not some iconic kiwi rappers you can guarantee would make a hilarious video ?
...i mean, look what 'homebrew' have been reduced to do to fundraise after being turned down for a grant.
NZ on Air need to sort their shit out and realise their subjective taste in music does not add value to NZ culture in the longterm.
I wonder if BS even knows what has commercial appeal anymore or listens to anything more than sycophantic platitudes on what a great guy he is.
Time we got someone in there who actually did some A&R in the industry and can spot talent worth developing and investing in.
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Hope you charged for overtime :)
heh...substitute the sex pistols and these last two lines could be me.
You were self-appointed, an arrogant angry young man. But what it really gave you was this ability to fail, and fail magnificently, as a noble pursuit, and never become a benign success. I think that's the essence of all the motivation.
Failure as something flamboyant and something very creative, something that allows you to do things new, that otherwise you wouldn't. It allows you to be stupid, really. And it allows you, by doing that, to control your own stupidity and make something brilliant out of it. And the failure is really the success, actually. And that's what the Sex Pistols, for me, was about. The success was in the failure. Almost programmed into it, in a funny way. Looking back, every decision I made was one of utter mismanagement! Ha ha ha ha ha!
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WOW, just read this epic and thought i 'd share...
http://imomus.com/mclarencomplete.html
...now i'm wondering where the spirit of 77 is, who's got it and how is it expressed ?
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The second stage of the global capitalist crisis
By Nick Beams
12 April 2010We can see more clearly the meaning of the fiscal crisis of the state. All government spending on social services, health, education etc. is, in the final analysis, a deduction from the surplus value available to capital. The cuts in social spending now being implemented by capitalist governments around the world, together with attacks on the social position of the working class, are the means by which the state will appropriate the surplus value needed to fund the bailout of the banks and financial institutions.
This process is creating the objective foundations for a new period of revolutionary struggles. The confrontation cannot be averted—there is not some new technology, or fresh source of cheap labour, that can pump the vast quantities of surplus value into the capitalist economy needed to match the wealth already handed to the banks. The capitalist state must claw back massive amounts of surplus value previously appropriated for social spending. In short, we have the emerging objective conditions for social revolution. The capitalist state cannot continue to rule in the old way and the working class cannot live under the new regime.
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BTW has anyone else been gutted by the fact that, a lot of mp3 album blogs and links from forums have been wiped from existence in the last few months ?
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What happens when your dole runs out?
...you turn to crime cos prison is not a deterrent compared to living rough on the streets.