> Bono recently announced that in his opinion the way to stop music piracy is to employ some combination of the great firewall of China and/or the methods used to stop child prOn – both of which seem odd company for the music “industry” to keep. But his other argument is that ISPs should be taxed because they are the ones getting rich from all the file sharing. As plenty of commenters state, there doesn’t seem to be any actual data to support this theory – because if there was it would be trotted out in the same sentence… is there any data to support this theory?
What’s even odder from my point of view is that I have heard the same argument (tax the ISPs) from U2s manager, and from the local performing rights & royalty collection agency, APRA who quoted & have then assumed this theory as part of their strategy. They state: “The perception that music is free is wrong and currently music represents a vast amount of what ISP’s and telecommunication companies receive, in the form of data charges from their customers. Copyright owners should share in this economy.” For that statement to be correct, surely it should say “The perception that ALL music is free is wrong…” – because there IS plenty of legitimate, free music available online but its the rest I am interested in: “music represents a vast amount of what ISP’s and telecommunication companies receive” – really? Here are the two sources of Bonos comments: boing boing and sonic state.
> Watch the ball:
> How to make a living playing music
> My favorite new visual blog: Black and WTF
Every photo posted there must have a fascinating back story!
> 21 Great Free Thinkers of Indie Film
> James Cameron: crack/VFX Addict
> Avatar in 5 panels
> I actually tried to go see Avatar in 3D the other day but turned out its booked up 4 days in advance, so I’ll leave it for a month – I don’t like sitting in a packed picture theatre. But since it was a sunny day I jumped on a boat to Somes Island & wow! The 3D effects were fantastic! It was like really being there!
> Shift magazines DOT MOV short film festival is currently touring Japan, but you can watch the selected shorts online here, while my favorite of their selection LoopLoop is already on vimeo (& has been posted here before)
> Ah Joe – he’s the kind of drummer who can adjust his glasses mid mind-blowing solo…. Such a melodic drummer!
Nice to see lots of new content flowing onto the blog once again! I started reading deeper into your post of brave thinkers and seeing how different people are taking action in coming up with new platforms and new strategies to both fund and distribute film. I thought I would mention this Manchester based director/producer couple who have created FutureArtists which I work with/ am part of (www.futureartists.co.uk/aboutus.php).
“Future Artists is a Film Studio run in the style of United Artists back in the day of Charlie Chaplain – there is no physical studio but a network of high end film people that bring together everything that’s needed to make films! We are committed to creating a sustainable, seriously amazing and financially sound film industry in the North West and working with all film makers in order to achieve this so that everything we learn, develop or create we share”
Future Artists is really just a bunch of independent film makers including actors, directors, camera ops, DOP’s, sound crew,etc from this area of the UK getting together to create quality films and through Future Artists and their founders, find ways to fund the production and post production via transmedia strategies and blending all kinds of ideas and financial strategies together. For example, they have a film in pre production involving football and freestyle footballing. So there is a scene that involves the kid busking in the street freestyling with a ball. So instead of just going out and shooting this scene, get extras for the busy street,etc.. what is being done is we are shooting right in front of a big sport brand store and are arranging the event as a promotional stunt drawing large amounts of people in front of the store and having a football freestyler practicing his skills in this location and thus providing promotional service to the store. What happens is that we are being paid to do a promotional stunt which in effect is getting us one of the scenes needed for the film. So there are definitely a lot of people out there who are coming up with new ideas and strategies and I believe this will propel a whole new flow of independently created film content! Exciting times!
love the joe morello clip – must admit i’d never heard of him before but will definitely be checking out more of his music
yay for mo’ detritus! I shall be following Black & WTF, too! 😀
Also, grazie for posting Danny Barnes’ spiel… I am bookmarking it for later reference….