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- Missy Elliott Goes 3-D In New Video – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- U2′s crazy manager wants to go after tech firms
- Tecktonik founder had no intention of starting a craze
- The Sounds f Silence
- Németh: Film < Music | PopMatters
- Thanks to leaps in electronic publishing anyone anywhere can write…
Missy Elliott Goes 3-D In New Video – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Jan 29, 2008
A New York judge denied Foxy Brown’s. According to The Associated Press the Manhattan district attorney’s office reported on Monday that State Supreme Court Justice Melissa Jackson will not allow Brown 29 to go to Los Angeles for the treatment which prosecutors argued she could get just as easily in New York where she is being held for… You know whose fault all this illegal music-file downloading is? Your Internet service provider that’s who! At least according to longtime U2 manager Paul McGuinness who laid the blame on ISPs in a fiery speech Monday at the annual MIDEM international music conference in France. According to the Los Angeles Times McGuinness’ keynote address targeted ISPs as both the primary culprits and potential healers of the worldwide record industry’s ongoing ills. “I think the failure of ISPs to engage in the fight against piracy to date has been the single biggest failure in the digital music market” he said. “They are the gatekeepers with the technical means to make a far greater impact on mass copyright violation than the tens of thousands of lawsuits taken out against individual file-sharers. ” McGuinness added that he thinks the prosecution of music fans for illegally downloading music is “counterintuitive” even if there is an “educational and propaganda” effect to them then issued a challenge to ISPs to do the right thing suggesting legislation might be required if they don’t.
U2′s crazy manager wants to go after tech firms
salon.com – Jan 29, 2008
” Whoa! Behold a man of wondrous self-regard a fellow so certain of his own inflated self-view that he’s willing to go out there and just say it: That Internet thing the world’s so in love with these days with your Facebook and your MySpace and your YouTubes all of that it wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for me! So pay up! (And parenthetically — and not to get too personal here — but isn’t it a little pot-kettle for a band manager to be calling other businesses parasites?) What McGuinness wants from the tech industry isn’t exactly clear. It seems he’s seeking some kind of revenue-sharing model with ISPs whereby they’d pay the music business in return for their members’ getting access to music. Note that this is not by definition a crazy idea: You could say McGuinness is calling for something like the collective music license that groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have. In that model the music industry would essentially allow people to trade all the music they want on the Internet. People would then pay a fee — say $5 a month presumably through their ISPs — which would go into a general music-sharing fund… In that model the music industry would essentially allow people to trade all the music they want on the Internet. People would then pay a fee — say $5 a month presumably through their ISPs — which would go into a general music-sharing fund. Money in that fund would be distributed to the record companies and thereby to artists according to statistics on how often songs are trading online (so U2 and Justin Timberlake would get a lot more of the dough than say.
Tecktonik founder had no intention of starting a craze
Christian Science Monitor – Jan 29, 2008
His parents work at the tis elevator factory near Gies in central France. Dance is a passion not a job and that’s how he felt when he started visiting the club Metropolis in the late 1990s with his partner Alexander. They didn’t like the club scene where “all the places we went had the same music at the start and at the end of the evening” says Mr. At the time a mix of dance styles was filtering into Paris: jump from Belgium hard from the Netherlands electro from Italy tech house from Spain. They began organizing evenings where music would change and people could try different dances even if they had their own preferences. “We had people from Belgium all parts of France Switzerland.
The Sounds f Silence
CBS News – Jan 29, 2008
Where does the initiative go from here?All the awkward PR can’t help Qtrax with the media and it’ll also be an uphill battle to regain the trust of those record companies after jumping the gun. (But seriously how does this happen?) Arguably it hasn’t hurt the image of the company within the downloading community since they’re still eager to “buy” into the idea and there are some claims that the Qtrax tracks will even be playable on an Apple’s music players. Interestingly Qtrax’s Web site still proclaims “. In other digital music news U2′s long-time manager Paul McGuinness had some sharp words for ISPs during the International Managers Summit at the MIDEM music conference and how they need to better enforce illegal downloading.
Németh: Film < Music | PopMatters
PopMatters – Jan 29, 2008
As a founding member of Radian and Lokai and the head of Vienna’s Mosz Records Stefan Németh has long been concerned with the interplay of ambient sound and music organic instrumentation and electronic precision. His work with experimental film and video has led him to consider the roles of rhythm mood and musical imagery as they support but do not overwhelm visual narratives. Here in his first solo album Németh revisits a series of pieces composed for film reworking their liquid lovely textures and tense driving cadences. The result drawn from several different film projects is remarkably cohesive and absorbing. These compositions are not “songs” in any conventional sense but nonetheless work convincingly as freestanding musical experiences.
Thanks to leaps in electronic publishing anyone anywhere can write…
Taipei Times – Jan 29, 2008
Technical innovations like XML and print-on-demand make delivering the output technically feasible and inexpensive. The new development and distribution models promoted by the pen Education movement represent a natural and inevitable evolution of the educational publishing industry. It parallels the evolution of the software industry (toward Linux and other open-source software); the music industry (recall the band Radiohead’s recent “pay what you like” digital download); and scholarly publishing (the US government recently mandated online public access to all research funded by the National Institutes of Health at US$28. 9 billion this year). The exciting thing about pen Education is that free access is just the beginning. pen Education promises to turn the current textbook production pipeline into a vast dynamic knowledge ecosystem that is in a constant state of creation use reuse and improvement. pen Education promises to provide children with learning materials tailored to their individual needs in contrast to today’s “off the rack” materials together with quicker feedback loops that match learning outcomes more directly with content development and improvement.