Having experienced the music business in the 1980s as a musician,
audio engineer, record producer, occasional DJ & concert promoter,
record pressing plant sales & marketing rep, and staff worker for a
PolyGram label, allow me to paraphrase O. Henry:
...As I said before, I dreamed that I was stand
Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/2/23 Robert (Jamie) Munro :
>>> ""Some of them have no pensions and need this money," he said."
>> Perhaps builders who built buildings in the 1950s should be paid rights
>> on the labour they used to build the building as long as the buildings
>> still stand. Or Doctor
2009/2/23 Robert (Jamie) Munro :
>>
>> ""Some of them have no pensions and need this money," he said."
>
> Perhaps builders who built buildings in the 1950s should be paid rights
> on the labour they used to build the building as long as the buildings
> still stand. Or Doctors whose patients contin
Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2009/2/23 Ian Forrester :
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7899602.stm
>>
>> Via Glyn, just wondered what everyone else thought?
>
> Isn't this an old story? I thought the Ars Technica article from
> December was much better ;-)
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-p
"Harmonisation" at the European level led to a wider discrepancy last time
round, with the Danes and French in particular making some extraordinarily
progressive steps. It should therefore be disregarded as an effective
logical argument for legislation.
I'm intrigued by the SCA's moves at the mom
> In fact technically changing all copyright durations to be 1 year
> would also harmonise everything.=20
Berne means copyrights have to be at least 50 years.
> There is no logical reason why you
> can only harmonise upwards and not downwards.
Governments don't want to strip people of their "pro
> "Some of them have no pensions and need this money," he said.
> "You are either gifted or good at business. It's rare to be both."
Perhaps they should have worked for more of their life and made NI
contributions, then they would get a state pension!
Or they could have taken out a private pensio
Dave Crossland wrote:
> ""Some of them have no pensions and need this money," he said."
A large enough cut of zero must be worth *something*.
- Rob.
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2009/2/23 Ian Forrester :
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7899602.stm
>
> Via Glyn, just wondered what everyone else thought?
Isn't this an old story? I thought the Ars Technica article from
December was much better ;-)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/12/uk-ignores-logic-b
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7899602.stm
Via Glyn, just wondered what everyone else thought?
I specially like this part
Said the source: "The 'creativity' argument is based on ignorance.
"There is nothing to stop a creative person using an old recording as part of
their work - as lo
... I couldn't hear any problems with Radio 4 today, but ironically I've
only been listening via FM (quips could be made at this point but I'll hold
off for another time ;). I just heard the broadcast apology regarding the
issues that they've apparently been having with the DAB broadcast, and I'm
c
Yes great story Tom.
Can I also suggest you add your idea to the ideastore -
ideas.welcomebackstage.com. It just means it won't get lost and many others can
view it and comment rather that it be lost in the mailing list like a few have
in the past.
Ian Forrester
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Nice story Tom! I love these little tales... shame Mother = fail :-(
Good to see that some of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle (including BBC
Search, with it's recentness/keyword weighting) are starting to come
together.
Not sure if there's any intention to build a 'fuzzy' programme finder round
t
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