Posts by Russell Brown
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Which of course is why Russell doesn't need to wear one, being such an emblem of masculinity in and of himself. It's the beard, I think.
How very kind of you, but I was thinking more in terms of how screamingly inappropriate a man-corset would be on me ...
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The New Haven Independent is choice!
Leading a story like this with a YouTube clip right on the homepage works well.
I quite liked the look of the Advocate's website too. All most of us see from the US are the big flagship papers, which I find oddly unsatisfying compared to, say, The Guardian. It'd be nice to see some city papers while they last ...
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If you use it and make money from it, you must pay. All those restaurants etc that sing it for the kids at birthday parties are breaching copyright.
Probably not, assuming they've paid for an APRA license, which they should if they're playing music to customers.
The "singing happy birthday in a park" thing arose from protests against a truly terrible Australian copyright bill that could in theory have treated such a rendition as a public performance, and applied a $6600 fine. As it turned out, 'Happy Birthday' isn't actually copyrighted in Australia.
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Hey, this is interesting ...
A good column on dunedinmusic.com, Where is the artists money from Myspace and Youtube?, points out that PRS even collects every time you play a preview at the iTunes Store.
APRA/AMCOS says:
APRA|AMCOS has developed policy around the licensing of such sites and all inquiries should be directed to Online & Mobile Licensing in the Broadcast & Online Department.
Third door on the left.
But there's no mention anywhere of there actually being a licensing agreement with YouTube.
At any rate, Arthur needs to stop slagging off actual or potential revenue partners. Really.
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Which raises an interesting question: does APRA have a licence deal with YouTube for Aus/NZ?
Anyone know?
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Paidcontent's stuff on YouTube v PRS (I linked to their page of links above) is really good. This story especially.
I have to say that both Arthur's and Billy Bragg's characterisations of YouTube as wanting it all for free seem miles wide of the mark:
YouTube is increasingly valuable to the music biz: YouTube plays accounted for 40 percent of all transactions PRS processed in between July and September (14 million out of 35 million), and the society made 40 percent more from such online services between January and July than the previous year.
This licensing revenue is an increasingly important source of income as music sales continue falling - YouTube specifically is so important to PRS that, in August, the society made a point of crediting part of the rise to the video site, whose population of “hairbrush divas”, lip synchers and mash-up makers boost PRS coffers. “We came to an agreement with them that we thought was mutually beneficial, and it has been,” Walker said.
It's a negotiation about how big the fixed PRS fee is -- YouTube claims PRS's proposed fee so large it would see the company take a loss on every video streamed. PRS says YouTube wants to pay less, YouTube says it's offering a lot more.
But when writers are getting paid for YouTube karaoke versions of their songs , it's just nonsense to say Google thinks music should be free. In light of the above, I actually can't understand how anyone could say it with a straight face.
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Any night Kevin performed, you knew you'd have fun.
I'm happy to say that there will be some Say Yes To Apes goodness here this Friday.
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Just spoke to Tom Cotter at TVNZ about the Androidss' video mystery.
He was virtually certain it hadn't disappeared because of a TVNZ notice.
TVNZ has just started using the YouTube system that lets rights-holders know when their own content is already online, but I think that only kicks in when they start uploading the same content. Tom was very doubtful that they'd have found the clip that way.
And, in any event, TVNZ's default is to claim the content but leave it up. The YouTube partner scheme lets rights-holders take a slice of ad revenue on pages containing their content, whether they put it there or not.
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Arthur's quote comes from this Guardian column by Billy Bragg and Dave Rowntree.
There's some interesting context on the YouTube-PRS wrangle here.
It seems like a mod version of the rights dispute that took music videos off NZ TV for a couple of years in the 80s.
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Not my place to do it, but I think it would be useful if local artists were to ally with the Featured Artists Coalition, or even form their own.
The group includes both artists and artist managers -- but not record companies from what I can see on their website.
Which way would Campbell swing? ;-)
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