P2P Site Coalition to Help Indie Filmmakers
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| Several of the largest BitTorrent sites
| including Mininova, The Pirate Bay and isoHunt
| have joined a coalition of file-sharing
| partners in an ambitious project to help
| filmmakers get their work out to the public.
| Founded by the director of Steal This Film,
| the VODO project debuts its first title today.
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http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-site-coalition-to-help-indie-filmmakers-091013/
Clubs turn to independent artists for music
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| A new scheme to play and promote independent
| artists may spell the end to mainstream
| Australian music at clubs and restaurants.
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| The move is part of a plan by the clubs
| industry to avoid higher music licence fees.
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| When clubs, restaurants and hotels want to
| play background music, they have to pay a
| licence fee to the Phonographic Performance
| Company of Australia (PPCA), which represents
| major music labels and recording artists.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/11/2710757.htm?section=justin
Court Rules That Phones Ringing in Public Don't Infringe Copyright
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| As we reported in June, ASCAP believes that
| when your cell phone's musical ringtone sounds
| in a public place, you're infringing
| copyright. A federal court yesterday firmly
| rejected that argument, ruling that "when a
| ringtone plays on a cellular telephone, even
| when that occurs in public, the user is exempt
| from copyright liability, and [the cellular
| carrier] is not liable either secondarily or
| directly." This is exactly the outcome urged
| by EFF, Public Knowledge, and the Center for
| Democracy & Technology in an amicus brief
| filed in the case.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/court-rules-phones-ringing-public-dont-infringe-co
Recent:
PRS Threatens Woman For Playing Radio To Her Horses Without Paying A Licensing
Fee
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| The latest (sent in by a few folks) is that PRS has now threatened a woman
| who plays classical music to her horses in her stable to keep them calm. She
| had been turning on the local classical music station, saying that it helped
| keep the horse calm -- but PRS is demanding Â99 if she wants to keep
| providing such a "public performance." And it's not just a one-off.
| Apparently a bunch of stables have been receiving such calls.
|
| Obviously, this is not a case of random excessive attempts by PRS to squeeze
| more money out of people. It's become systematic. The group seems to believe
| that playing music in almost any situation now constitutes a public
| performance and requires a licensing fee. You just know they're salivating
| over the opportunity to go after people playing music in their cars with the
windows down.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090327/1113014276.shtml
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