You may recall our post from a while back about popular mashup artist Girl Talk, where we noted all the clearance and licensing hoops he'd have to jump through for his records to be 100 percent legal. Our takeaway? The current sample license clearance process is likely too time-consuming and cost-prohibitive for Girl Talk to make his art legit. read more
Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling provides a comprehensive, interdisiplinary look at the issues at the intersection of culture, creativity, compensation and technology. Co-authored by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, with contributions by Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson, the book includes interviews with over one hundred stakeholders in the sampling culture — from samplers, to attorneys, to license clearance experts, managers and record label owners. It examines the analog history of sampling, bringing an informed economic and legal analysis of the sample license clearance process in line with how the system works. In the final chapters, the authors examine a handful of proposals that would streamline the licensing process, but each “solution” has its own costs. Is it possible for society to achieve a balance that allows creativity to flourish but also fairly compensates original creators?
Creative License will be published by Duke University Press in 2011.
We did it! Another amazing Future of Music Policy Summit is behind us, but we’ll always have the memories. This year’s conference — our eighth — was probably our best yet; if you were with us at Georgetown University in DC from Oct. 4-6, you definitely know what we’re talking about. Maybe you were one of the thousands of people who watched the live webcast? Either way, we thank you so much for participating in the event. Read on for some of the highlights, as well as a few other things we’ve been working on in our “spare time.”
1. Future of Music Policy Summit 2009: awesomeness roundup!
2. FMC, PBS’ Independent Lens & Community Cinema present COPYRIGHTCRIMINALS
3. Music 2.0 and the “29 Streams”
4. Big wins for Low Power FM
5. Performance Rights Act passes in Senate Committee
6. FMC’s Michael Bracy on NPR’s “Sound Opinions”
7. Still fighting for net neutrality
8. FMC, musicians and speech
9. Travel and appearances
10. SanFran MusicTech is back!
11. How are we doing?
We’re almost at
the finish line, folks.
The three-day music-tech-policy
extravaganza known
as the Future
of Music Policy Summit is
less than three weeks
away, so if you wanna
catch our greatest
conference yet, better
step lively! The Policy
Summit roster has
grown considerably
since the last newsletter,
with some really exciting
names just added.
Then there’s the rock
show, cocktail parties
and more for that
extra something-something.
But planning for Summit
isn’t the only
thing we’ve been
up to (although sometimes
it feels that way!) — read
on for more of FMC’s
recent and upcoming activities.
1. FMC Policy Summit:
why *you* need to
be there
2. "Behind the
Policy Summit" FutureBlog
series
3. FMC joins
PBS’ Independent Lens
and Community Cinema
for free documentary
4. FMC invited to
participate in FCC
Broadband Workshops
5. Musicians and Health
Insurance: North Carolina
Public Radio screenings
6. FMC at NYSARTS
Summit 2009
7. One Web
Day: what’s the "big
idea?"
8. Intern Positions
Available
9. How are we doing
Washington, D.C.? National education, research and advocacy nonprofit organization Future of Music Coalition is pleased to announce its participation in a series of free community film screenings on issues of importance to musicians and the public.
Watch the archived webcast here!
As part of a multi-part discussion series, FMC and media professor Kembrew McLeod (University of Iowa) hosted Creative License: a Conversation About Music, Sampling and Fair Use — a panel discussion that took place at The Public Theater in New York City on Monday, October 6, 2008 at 6:00 PM. read more
You’ve probably heard some of the buzz around Girl Talk — the biomedical engineer-turned DJ whose sample-based music is making waves among hipsters, tastemakers and even the New York Times.
Girl Talk released his most recent album, Feed the Animals, in June 2008. On it, Gillis blatantly samples over 300 artists, demonstrating his uncanny ability to overlay music from traditionally isolated genres: metal riffs run alongside ’70s love songs and West Coast rap; today’s pop gets down with ’60s R&B and classic rock. With its hundreds of easily recognizable samples, the album is part parlor game, part love letter to three decades of popular music. read more
Future of Music Coalition and Pitchfork Music Festival Present:
"It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
Chicago, IL ? On Thursday, July 17, an important piece of hip-hop history gets its due. Future of Music Coalition, a national non-profit that tackles issues that affect musicians, and the Pitchfork Music Festival will host a discussion about Public Enemy?s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The free event ? which features legendary MC Chuck D, members of PE?s original production team including Hank Shocklee and music media experts ? takes place at 3 PM at the Chicago Cultural Center's Claudia Cassidy Theater.
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Chicago, IL — On Thursday, July 17, an important piece of hip-hop history gets its due. Future of Music Coalition and the Pitchfork Music Festival will host a discussion about Public Enemy’s seminal album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The free event — which features legendary MC Chuck D, members of PE’s original production team including Hank Shocklee and music media experts — takes place at 3 PM at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theater. read more
