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Unions Welcome European Parliament Report On Enforcement Of IP Rights

The European Parliament adopted a report during this weeks plenary session in Strasbourg calling on Members States and the EU to step up their efforts to fight counterfeiting and digital theft.

In a joint statement the International Federation of Actors (FIA), the International Federation of Musicians (FIM) and UNI-MEI Global Union for Media, Entertainment & Arts (UNI MEI) welcomed the adoption of the "Gallo report" on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Internal Market by the European Parliament yesterday.

FIA, FIM and UNI-MEI which form the International Arts and Entertainment Alliance underlined that they are satisfied that a majority of members of the European Parliament acknowledge that copyright and neighbouring rights are as relevant to creators in the digital world as they are in the analogue environment.

The three organisations have campaigned together to make the voice of creators and all other media and entertainment workers heard in this debate, which was and still is polarised by a discussion on rights of Internet versus rights of corporate interests.

In discussion with Members of Parliament and political groups the trade unions have underlined that creators deserve a fair share of the income generated by the exploitation of their work. They also need the industry to remain sustainable and continue to create employment opportunities. The rollover of new business models for legal distribution online needs to be encouraged, in order to provide consumers with more choice, increased flexibility of use and affordable rates.

The Gallo report acknowledges the fact that unauthorised file sharing has grown to proportions that have an adverse impact on jobs and investment. It acknowledges the fact that research is necessary in order to quantify this impact further and calls on the Commission to undertake an independent impact assessment study.

The report further acknowledges the importance of providing additional legal offers to end users, with the flexibility they expect both in terms of access and price. The report also recognises that such legal offers may not be the only solution to mass IPR infringements and that a comprehensive IPR strategy is necessary to enable content industries to remain viable, including educational measures and enforcement mechanisms – in full compliance with the Charter and European Convention on Human Rights. Such strategy is to be drafted in consultation with all stakeholders and all EU institutional players.

Although the Gallo report does mention the need for fair and proportionate sanctions as part of that overall strategy, it does not suggest specific solutions, it does not advocate for a European HADOPI nor suggests anywhere that criminal sanctions should be taken against consumers – an approach that the trade unions would not approve of.

Following the report the European Commission is expected to present the review of the EU Directive on Copyright Enforcement (IPRED Directive). This review process is an opportunity to discuss concrete measures to improve the protection of audiovisual works and other creative content online, a debate UNI MEI and its sister organisations will take an active part in. Furthermore, the trade unions seek to continue the dialogue with all political groups regarding how to improve the rights and remuneration of creators and all creative workers in the digital economy.

Digital Music NY, in association with Women In Music and RightsFlow, is proud to present "Music Law In The Digital Age," a book launch and reception with the authors Allen Bargfrede and Cecily Mak. Cecily Mak is the VP & General Counsel of Rhapsody International Inc., while Allen Bargfrede is an entertainment and technology attorney and an assistant professor of Music Business at the Berklee College of Music.

DMNY Presents Music Law In The Digital Age
In association with Women In Music and RightsFlow
WHEN: Wednesday October 13, 6 - 9PM
WHERE: Gonzalez y Gonzalez
625 Broadway (Bet Bleecker & Houston), New York
Drink specials provided by Riazul Tequila
RSVP Required

The first 20 people to register will receive a copy of the book at the event courtesy of RightsFlow and Riazul Tequila will be offering drinks specials throughout the night.

Music Law in the Digital Age
Learn copyright essentials in order to succeed in today's music industry. With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online, understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge, plain-language guide shows you how copyright law drives the contemporary music industry. Whether you are an artist, lawyer, entertainment Web site administrator, record label executive, student, or other participant in the music industry, this book will help you understand how copyright law affects you, helping you use the law to your benefit. Topics include basic copyright law, the Copyright Act, proper licenses for the legal online delivery of music, high profile court decisions related to copyright violations, using music on sites like MySpace and YouTube, and much more.

Allen Bargfrede
Allen Bargfrede is an entertainment and technology attorney and an assistant professor of Music Business at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has experience advising music artists, record labels, managers, publishers, and producers, as well as content distribution and technology companies. He is also currently coordinating Berklee's Rethink Music event in conjunction with MIDEM and Harvard University.

Allen is the co-author of the book "Music Law in the Digital Age," published in early 2010. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the Boston Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and holds a JD and a BA from the University of Texas and an MA from Northwestern University.

Cecily Mak, VP & General Counsel, Rhapsody International Inc.
Mak is an intellectual property and entertainment attorney with senior in-house and top-tier law firm experience. She has been with Rhapsody since 2004, initially as part of RealNetworks, Inc. and then in connection with Rhapsody America LLC, its joint venture with Viacom's MTV Networks. She played a key role in Rhapsody's spinoff into an independent company, Rhapsody International Inc. in early 2010.

A fifth-generation San Franciscan and a graduate of UC Hastings College of the Law, Mak is a frequent public speaker and regular contributor to a range of music magazines, legal periodicals, and releases from the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers. She is an adjunct professor at UC Hastings where she has taught Digital Media Law since 2007.

About Digital Music NY
Digital Music NY is collaboration between Fortex Group and MusicDish Founders, Ephraim Cohen and Eric de Fontenay to build a community of New York area based professionals in the digital music sector, from singer/songwriter to app developer. Focused around a monthly event held at Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Digital Music NY features company announcements, presentations of the latest tech, and discussions on new business models, guest speakers and plenty of networking.
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The cost of free
Posted by Helienne Lindvall Monday 27 September 2010


It's ironic that advocates of free online content charge hefty fees to speak at events.

At a book reading in 2005, media "guru" Cory Doctorow said: "I don't mind being a whore, I just don't want to be a cheap whore." And cheap he isn't – it'll cost you $25,000 (?15,800) to get him to speak at your conference (according to his booker, the fee is only $10,000 to $20,000 if it's a "college-oriented talk").

[Update: read Cory Doctorow's response to these claims in "The real cost of free" - Charles Arthur, technology editor.]

Fair enough, you may say – after all, Sarah Palin charges $100,000 for appearances. But what does Doctorow speak about? Well, ironically, he's a proponent of giving away content for free as a business model – and for years he's been telling the music industry to adapt to it. Am I the only one to see the irony in this?

In fairness, Doctorow – who is also an author of science fiction – is not the only person demanding more in an hour than what an average professional musician makes in a year, peddling a utopian, and some would say fictional, business model to increasingly desperate music and media companies. Getting "business guru" Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine and author of Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business , to speak at your conference will reportedly set you back $40,000 to $50,000.

A friend of mine recently tried to book Seth Godin for a music industry panel and was told by his speaker agent that he charges $150,000 to come to London from his home in New York. And, like pretty much all these "gurus", he demands a first-class round-trip flight ticket to boot. But if they let him do it via video link from his hometown it would only cost $15,000 plus expenses, said the agent.

So what kind of valuable advice would you get for that tidy sum of money? In his interview Music Vs the Music Industry (his advice applies to just about everything, he adds) – Godin says: "This is the greatest moment in the history of music if your dream is to distribute as much music as possible to as many people as possible … If your focus is on the industry part and the limos, the advances, the lawyers, polycarbonate and vinyl, it's horrible."

Apart from, in my opinion, stating the obvious – it also paints a dated and clichéd picture of what the music industry is about, and shows a lack of understanding of the business Godin claims to want to help.

Peter Sunde, Pirate Bay's former spokesperson, has also entered the lucrative speakers' circuit, acquiring his own agent. Last year Sunde was convicted of assisting the distribution of illegal content online and, along with three colleagues, sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay his share of a fine of ?2.4m . Now he demands up to ?5,000 to appear at your conference. I suppose Pirate Bay's demand that artists give away their work for free is a one-way street.

However, the executive editor of the Register, Andrew Orlowski, thinks the days of cashing in on free as a business model are numbered. "It's the end of an era," he says. "All their predictions have turned out to be wrong."

These speakers come from the starting point that all intellectual content has to go through the web, while completely discounting individual choices. There is a counter argument , as illustrated by the amount of value Apple has been able to release through apps.

"Gurus" like motivational speaker and self-styled "futurist" Gerd Leonhard (who charges $7,000 to $15,000) , Lawrence Lessig and Anderson keep claiming that the emergence of the internet meant normal rules are now suspended, says Orlowski. "But modern economics have not been suspended."

Don't, however, count on these speakers disappearing. Chris Anderson has already come up with a new theory in his latest Wired article The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.

Hey, if you've got $50,000 to spare he may just tell you all about it.

The following statements were made by musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record produce T. Bone Burnett at the Future of Music Coalition's Policy Summit on Monday, see Youtube video clip.

"If I were starting off right now, knowing what I know right now, I would say, 'don't put your music on the internet,' that's what I would say. I would say stay completely away from the internet, have nothing to do with it.

Don't be on Facebook, don't be on MySpace. You know why? Because as soon as you're on MySpace, you're one of 6 million......

If you're a musician today, and you want to record music, and you want to circulate that recorded music, don't put it on the internet, because you're degrading the thing that you're doing to such a low point that... its value goes to zero...."

Hi Dave,

Check it out. Dave Woods

Nicely done. Thanks for giving us a peek.

I hope you are feeling better,
Bobby

thanks everyone....... for the suggestions.
jack

Check it out. Dave Woods

London's Jazza festival highlights Palestinian plight


Artists to perform at pro-Palestinian music festival as Robert Wyatt releases new album in collaboration with Gilad Atzmon.
By Mamoon Alabbasi - LONDON

A music festival will be held in London on October 12th and 13th dedicated to highlighting the plight of Palestinians and help raise aid for the Gaza Strip.

The event, dubbed 'Jazza Music Festival', will feature singer-songwriter Sarah Gillespie, London-based Israeli-born saxophonist Gilad Atzmon, with the participation of other leading artists and performers such as the Mercury Prize nominated 'Unthanks' sisters.

Gillespie will be playing songs from her debut album 'Stalking Juliet', known for catchy songs like 'How the Mighty Fall', 'Ahmed and Dangerous' and the moving melody of 'Million Moons', in addition to showcasing new works.

Atzmon will be playing material from Robert Wyatt's new release, which includes a song about Palestine, with the Sigamos Sring Quartet and Cleveland Wattkiss on vocals.

The event marks the official launch of Robert Wyatt's new album, 'For the Ghosts Within', in collaboration with Atzmon and violinist-composer Ros Stephen.

Other artists featuring at the two-day Festival include Nizar Al-Issa, The Unthanks Sisters, Shathayah, Rory McCloud, Peter King, Seb Rochford, Alex Garnett, and Oren Marshall.

The Jazza Music Festival is organized in association with the Free Palestine Movement.

Meanwhile, Atzmon is currently on tour with his new album, celebrating his tenth anniversary with the Orient House Ensemble (with Eddie Hicks on drums, Frank Marrison on piano, and Yaron Stavi on bass).

The release of 'TheTide Has Changed', recorded with Harmonia Mundi (World Village) label, comes to crown a decade of success and awards for Atzmon.

The album, which follows his 'In Loving Memory of America' and the spectacular 'Refuge', features a number of Middle Eastern inspired melodies, coated with the traditional influences of African-American jazz, and played to diverse audiences in the UK.

In parallel with his (sometimes controversial) writings, Atzmon carries the wounds the Palestinian people in his tunes, as can be felt in the song 'London to Gaza', among others.

Hello all,

I've been dealing with some personal issues, so I haven't been paying att'n
to YJJG too much lately; I hope to be back online soon.

I did want to let everybody know that Igor Grigoriev, aka IGOROGOGO, passed
away on 25 September. Igor was a member of this group, although he didn't
post very often. His music is rooted in free improvisation, and somewhat
challenging, worth checking out at _
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Cheers,
JV

Juan Vega

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The info is true, Greg. The swab test already exists and is
undergoing field trials both in the States and in Europe; the sniffer
test, simpler to use at the customs post, is the second generation and
still under development. Just another reason to really think clearly
before you try to carry a BR guitar across borders.

All best,
Robert

There's a brand new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience by a team of scientists at Northwestern (first author Beverly Wright) that investigates how much deliberate practice can be replaced with periods of "additional sensory stimulation," or passive listening.

The experiment went like this: A large group of subjects was taught a difficult auditory discrimination task. Then, they practiced. And practiced. Every subject in the task performed 360 trials of the task per day for at least six days. But here's where the interesting differences begin: In one follow-up regimen, listeners performed an unrelated task in silence. In another regimen, subjects performed that same task while listening to relevant stimuli in the background. In the final regimen, subjects didn't get a break, but instead practiced the same auditory discrimination exercise over and over again. We'll call this the nothing-but-practice group.

So which group improved the most? It turned out that you needed to be exposed to the relevant stimuli. This meant that the group which practiced the unrelated task in silence didn't improve. However, these experiments also demonstrated that listening to relevant background stimulation could be just as effective as slaving away at the task itself, at least when the subjects had practiced first. In fact, the scientists found that we don't even have to be paying conscious attention to the stimuli – subjects still benefited from the stimulation even when distracted by an entirely unrelated task. I emailed with Andrew Sabin, one of the co-authors on the study, who summarized the results:

A great deal of previous work has shown that simply presenting the stimuli to the participant is usually not enough. They actually have to do the task. This is where our group comes in. Basically, what we say is, yes you do have to do the task, just not for the whole time. The main result is that if you practice for 20 minutes, and then you are passively exposed to stimuli for 20 minutes, you learn as if you have been practicing for 40 minutes. You can cut the effort in half, and still yield the same benefit. This finding could be important for clinical training programs, such as the ones that attempt to treat language-based learning disorders.

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Unfortunately, as great as that app looks, it is severely crippled ( or
under-developed) on the Android phones. As soon as the developer brings it
into parity with the iPhone version, I will buy it...


They're also coming out soon with a "Jazz Style Pack" that contains various
rhythms like
Bossa, Cha-cha, Mambo, Swing, etc., etc...







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Unfortunately, as great as that app looks, it is severely crippled ( or
under-developed) on the Android phones. As soon as the developer brings it
into parity with the iPhone version, I will buy it...

Received my DVD of Sinatra at the Americas.

Blue eyes and Buddy Rich`s band were both on top form with terrific
arrangements - everything we have come to expect.

There will never be another.

Will

Bought a few `classes from Rich Severson's 99centguitarlessons.com. Yes it's a way of introducing you to his guitar college and the classes there. But what I got for 9 bux and change was a group of videos and trax DL'd to my desk top. But more importantly it you call or email Rich or Gail his wife will answer quickly and they are very helpful. I messed up one of my DL's to my desktop and got great help. You can see some of his stuff on utube. There are some short free chord licks there that are nice and the theory is in the verbiage of the vid as well as what he is playing. VIds and sound are good quality. Chords are spelled out. My hearing is bad enough that it's not that much help. If you've been playing a little while it's clear what he is doing. The stuff I've seen is kind of intermediate I'd guess.

For anyone who is not a strong reader it's a great way to get going on some chord melody that is not overly simplistic and sounds pretty good. Some of the classes come with pdfs as well. I don't have to give anyone access to my bank account and you won't need a cosigner on a loan to buy his classes.

I don't get a free set of Steve Vai picks or anything. I just like what I'm getting from them. Anyone else tried his stuff? How did it strike you?

Ron

Living and playing outside the box.

Hey Dave, if you're still thinking about teaching again... I 'was',
too... ;)



Best regards,
...z


... this is very familiar territory ..... funny!



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