An ASCAP legislative fundraising letter revealed last week that the American performing rights organization is invoking fears of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and Creative Commons in order to raise money. ASCAP appears to be repeating, now in the more heated language of fundraising, arguments it has had with the Creative Commons license in the past. For its part, Creative Commons insists most of its licenses don’t preclude performing rights bodies like ASCAP from collecting funds.
In the letter, sent on behalf of ASCAP’s Political Action Committee (PAC), the ASCAP Legislative Fund for the Arts, the PAC argues to its members that that these organizations undermine the value of music:
Many forces including Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation and technology companies with deep pockets are mobilizing to promote “Copyleft” in order to undermine our “Copyright.” They say they are advocates of consumer rights, but the truth in these groups simply do not want to pay for the use of our music. Their mission is to spread the word that our music should be free.
This is why your help now is vital. We fear that our opponents are influencing Congress against the interests of music creators. If their views are allowed to gain strength, music creators will find it harder and harder to make a living as traditional media shifts to online and wireless services. We all know what will happen next: the music will dry up, and the ultimate loser will be the music consumer.
Attacks on Creative Commons by ASCAP are nothing new. The organization argued in a 2007 essay (and subsequent report) that elements of the license, which is applied to copyrighted works, meant “artists should give up all or some of their rights.” As noted in a rebuttal by Creative Commons’ Laurence Lessig, some of those claims were incorrect. Among other items, ASCAP said that the “licenses ask creators to waive the ability to collect royalties,” which isn’t true of the non-commercial CC licenses.
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Get your mates together and create a legendary music video with Pepsi Max It Legends
Ever made your own music video for your band? Ever thought it deserved more than just a spot on YouTube? Believe us when we say could be your lucky day as thanks to MusicRadar and Pepsi Max, your video could just win you £20,000 and recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios!
Full details of the Music Challenge are below alongside some stuff you need to know.
We’ll now hand over to muso legend Strings (the lovely fella at the top of this page and star of the Pepsi Max It Legends website) to fill you in. Good luck!
The Music Challenge brief
Get your mates together and create a legendary music video for a track of your own.
The video that gets the most votes will win £20,000 and recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios!
If you and your mates want to become true music legends, you need to create a music video to one of your own tracks that other people will want to vote for.
You need to be entertaining and surprising. So before you get the camera out, think how you can make your music video different from everyone else’s. Here are a few hints and tips…
• We love great music by itself, but to give yourselves the best chance of getting the most votes you need to give a great performance as well
• Think about what you can add to your video to make it stand out from the crowd. Think about interesting props you could use. Or perhaps you could film yourselves playing in a weird location
• Music stars whether they are into rock, R&B, rap or pop are notorious for dressing to impress – how can you and your mates stand out from the crowd?
• Do you have other skills you can showcase that could make your video really special? What about dancing to your track, creating an animated video or using puppets to represent your band members?
• Use our print out poster (it’s in the Music Challenge area on the site) at the end of your video to tell everyone your team name and the name of your video on the site or YouTube. The poster is part of the download pack so before you do anything else print it out and get your details on it
Stuff you need to know
No matter how good your video is, if you don’t follow the rules you and your mates are never going to be music legends.
So in a nutshell here’s the really important info you need to know:
• You’ve all got to be UK residents and over 16 years old
• Your video must be uploaded between 14 June – 8 August 2010
• The track has got to be your own
• It cannot be a cover of someone else’s track
• The video also has got to be all your own work. No copyrighted content please!
• Please bear in mind that the video you upload can’t be bigger than 100Mb and needs to be one of these file types – .mpg, .mp4, .mov, .flv, .avi or .wmv
• For a full list of Terms & Conditions visit here.
Get started!
So that’s it! All that’s left now is to get your mates together and have a crack at becoming legends.
Click here to enter the Pepsi Max It Legends Music Challenge – and good luck!
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In light of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, Sample Logic has released a Vuvuzela sample library. With this South African stadium horn, the Sample Logic team was able to create and deliver a wide range of sounds – from traditional staccato, sustain, and flutter patches, to morphed war calls, impacts, and ethnic rhythms.
This $9.99 mini sample library contains 40 instruments and multis for Kontakt that will conjure up the spirit of the World Cup 2010 while adding a new ethnic twist to your collection.
Offered as a direct download for $9.99, Vuvuzela will only be available for a limited time before it goes away into the Sample Logic vault. Kontakt 3.5 or higher is required (This will not work with the free Kontakt Player).
get it here www.samplelogic.com
The 375 MB library includes:
Traditional:
Staccato
Sustain
Calls
Falls
Flutters
Swells
Stadium Ensemble
Percussive Kits
Morphed:
Ambience
Impacts
Melodic
Pads
Stingers
Rhythms
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