one.org– i get on my soap box…

they asked me and a million people to write something to one.org,,, so i posed something at this link, i know that me and 1 million other people filled in this form, yet you never know. Maybe one person might read it… and think about what it is they are doing for the long run…

the real change might happen when people can unite through the use of technology to help these developing places devlop better than the places we live in. Copyright needs to be reformed so that ideas can flow, the power of the media needs to be in the hands of the people, not the corporations… activists like Bono benefit through an increased presence in the media through their activism… yet artists that are not known to the world, that possibly create on par with Bono in many instances are being locked out by the corporate monopolies. As they consume each other in a war on rights. on one hand the technology has changed the world for the people. Yet on the other hand, the corporations use the laws of copyright to censor the people. Bring back registration for copyright. let the people be free and natural with their ideas, copyright is locking us all up, even the people at the top of the media chain are victims to copyright. its time that all people came together and with the politicians and the corporations, to understand that the technology has changed yet the laws have not. Laws and regulations around the laws of copyright need to be reformed. Please bring the issue of copyright and its deregulation to your way. The internet is about people connecting with people, not about people being forced to connect with the corporations through censorship. Issues that relate to copyright are having a huge impact on the developing places that America in many instances has exploited in the past. I’m not one to change the way people are. Yet we can’t let the human spirit be locked up through the things we build because of the corporations and the laws. Get together against an over regulated system. Chaos is being taken out of the equation, because of the over regulation. My heart hope things change. To solve poverty, the fundamentals need to change. Just as the fed reserve needs to change, so do the laws that govern the laws of copyright.

Obama video response. McCain’s video response.

If this video is true here, it says that America’s debt is 56 trillion dollars. In McCains response he talks of corruption in Africa.

I heard on a clip someone say “why does capitalism stay in business, response… cause socialism always bails it out.” Both sides of the coin agree that its a good idea that 1.7 trillion dollars be injected into the US economy to save things from ruin. Where is the corruption? Trillion dollars to the bankers and corporations, Billion dollars to poverty.

Its interesting that hungary was just given a lot of Euros…

IMF pledged 12.5 billion euros (16 billion dollars) to embattled Hungary, the European Union offered 6.5 billion euros and the World Bank added another billion euros. Hungary is just one country, the European union has just loaned 6.5 billion. I spose this explains how it works at a distance, just like the artists are locked out of the media, so is Africa locked out of the global economy, Africa with its resources could be more than Europe and America combined, its sad that this is the way it is… its interesting to note that…
Daimler AG, the world’s second-largest maker of luxury cars, will build a Mercedes-Benz factory in Hungary, its first new plant in almost a decade, as part of a 1.4 billion-euro ($2.2 billion) expansion of small-car production.

the new face of evil in Holland

the new face of evil in Holland

Originally uploaded by jamtea

this is a machine that delivers content to many cafes and venue spaces around the Netherlands. What makes this system more evil than the regular content that comes via Buma/stemra is that if i go into the space that has this system, they are not able to play my cd. Although they have cd player the player only plays content that is coded for that system. The reality of this system seems that the venue pays a lower license fee to play content only out of this streaming network. The system is linked to a central provider.

This system is a loose loose system for Europe. On one hand the large publishers and labels are not getting revenues that previously was available when more recordings and cd’s and dvd’s were pressed. The result is that prices for use of content for public performance has increased. A good example form Australia is a local bondi gym. The gym used to pay a license fee of 1500 dollars per year. APRA the rights organization in Australia put the price of content upto 5 dollars per member per year. This represented an increase in cost of 35000 dollars. So what does this all this mean. Well as the price of content goes up for use of all content, spaces are going to turn to these black boxs that shall pay 100 percent popular content. Imagine that if an artist brings a cd into this venue that venue is not able to play it as it does not have a license to do so. Scary future.

put in jail for not paying the rights organizations in Thailand phuket

I heard from a friend that was reading the local paper in Phuket that local business owners that were not paying the rights organizations for the use of music content were arrested and taken to jail. As soon as the business owners agreed to sign up with the APRA, BMI, ASCAP equivalent in Thailand, they were released. When i was in Turkey, shops that sold things that were copied were fined, yet the fine was re-newed every 6 months. I’m not sure what the best way is for countries that are changing so fast. Very little of the music i heard when in Thailand was from Thailand.

Copyright gone wrong in paradise.

culture in copyright

Not much art flows from one country to the next in Europe. few self publsihing artists/bands from Germany travel to other countries to play their tunes on a regular basis. Every country has a slightly different regulation when it comes to use of author rights, sound recordeds and right for live performance . For a space to be able to have live music, it has to be part of the building permit, i found out today. The level of sound cant exceed a certain level. Also to have a public performance of music, the concert needs to be announced and registered with the city council. If the venue is late with the announcement, then the venue has to pay an extra fee. If the concert is not registered then the concert is stoped by the police and a fine issued.

With so much regulation around the use of live music, its no wonder that no much live music is happening. If it does happen its going to cost the venue money, even the spaces where bands rehurse have to pay for the use of author rights. Music is like hot water and the publishers regulate what hot water is used, via networks established over a 100 years.

If the price of Modonnas sound recording is the same price as mine, what is the point to take my sound recording to a public space without a publisher?

The reality of this current system in Europe/Australia seems that a network of culutral funds has been set up to counter the system of one price for the use of sound recordings.  Now it seems that this system is funding the commercial music enterprises. Example: in St gallen the cultural clubs often have US bands that call themselves indies bands, yet really they sit under the hat of universal, sony or emi labels/publishers somehow and how can anyone really know what is what. The word independent has been stretched an reused and sold again, like everything else.

Torbranda from Bergen

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Torbranda from bergen talks about rights organizatio Tono and getting the pop art out and about where ‘es based.

http://www.rawmedia.tv 

cultural folk or folk as in punk folk

response to person who thought decentralized folk is not a good idea.

what do you suggest- centralize the tunes- put ‘em on a shelf /i-tunes? pay to put your music on i-tunes and get people to pay for it- when 99 percent of what is consumed is owned by labels and the only people that pay for your music are your own fans that you develop at live gigs anyway?

cultural money supports the folk scene in most countries. take away the funding that controls the scene and the resource of the community might create the entertainment that is needed. that’s why its best for artists to pay bookers in Europe up front when they book live performance of shows, cause the scene is totally political. Almost every aspect of the music scene is funded. So punk and i see folk as being punk, is not able to happen while artists are judged on their ability to fill out forms rather than what they create. Yet once you
have bureaucracy in place, its not really possible to get rid of it. So i spose musical bureaucrats are always going to laugh at the idea of decentralized folk. look at u-tube! look at myspace, they don’t pay the rights organizations (osa) , look how successful they are when they use content for free.