From tompoe at fiai.net Fri Jul 1 08:44:01 2005 From: tompoe at fiai.net (tom poe) Date: 01 Jul 2005 07:44:01 -0500 Subject: [Community_studios] It's David from Ohio In-Reply-To: <7f.612e6076.2ff5c067@aol.com> References: <7f.612e6076.2ff5c067@aol.com> Message-ID: <1120221842.1164.23.camel@notes.openstudios.org> Hi, David: Here's one "sales" pitch: What tools are there for a musician to use to pursue their careers? There's radio: send your demo CD to a radio station, and they will play it for you, so people can hear you. There are music stores: contact the music stores and have them carry your CDs, and you get a cut. The radio costs lots of money, 'cause they can charge you to play your music; the major record companies control the system The music stores do the same. That's pretty much the present system, a system whereby a couple of corporations control some 85% of the music the world listens to. There's the PC, make your own music recordings, develop an internet strategy, and do it yourself. How? Create a web site, create some CDs, start an online shop where people can purchase, and then market to a worldwide audience, almost instantaneously. The cost? a few pennies, maybe. Now, homework assignment: bring up your favorite browser, then type in http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/php/playlist.php , then click on the image, and go to the welcome page, then type in "ten" in the search box on the top right column, then click on the first entry in the search results, then read what the Ten Mile Tide band says. SOLD!!! Now, tell the musician to send Open Studios an email, and request assistance to get started, today. Nice, eh? :) As for loading and going, David, let's start by seeing what your computer specs are. What have you got to use for your project? Do you have an IT person there to give you the specs? If not, then we can try and get to the Bios when you boot up, and see what info is there. Just hit the on button on the computer, and look at the very top of the screen for some text that says something like "setup - F2" or "esc". I don't know what I'm doing, so I just start hitting the esc key, repeatedly until something happens. What's amazing, is, the computer lets me do that! Tom On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 16:38, DRAGLAND4U at aol.com wrote: > Hey Tom, > > I was wondering what had happened to you when I tried to email and call you > last week. When I got your email explaining that you moved I was very > relieved. I have been following the Creative Commons concept and reading all the > pro's and cons about it. Everytime I read about the monopolizing of music freedom > it really does something to me. I have mixed emotions and uncertainties, but > hey what can you say. I have aspirations of being that entertainment mogul > because I first Love music and entertainment and I really want to be a part > of a positive movement. > > Explain to me a good first approach to aspiring artists about the 14 year > copyright issue and after that term, an artist song is no longer theirs. I > understand the public domain issue but as you well know it is a hard sell. I > shouldn't have any problems with mature artists who understand this matrix of a > music industry as such, I like to refer to my self as Neo, the chosen one! > Hopefully I will prevail once I can convince people that the music industry is > experiencing a paradigm shift and what I am offering through Open Studios is a > disruptive technology such as the PC was to the typewriter. > > I am interested also about the websites, both the nonprofit and the profit > one. I am a visionary and I can't help sometimes to live in the future through > the now. Don't be hesitant to pull my tail if I get ahead of myself at times. > That is just my nature. > > I am interested in the WHOLE gamut of the entertainment business model that > I want to put together with your help. I want to get into book publishing, > film making, record production and fortunately I make a good income so I can > afford to promote and maintain the dream as I live it because it is the journey > that is most exciting. > > > But anyway. I would like to load software as soon as possible so I can at > least see what I have been bragging about to my peers and such. > > ---- > > _______________________________________________ > Community_studios mailing list > Community_studios at lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/community_studios From tompoe at fiai.net Mon Jul 4 17:25:39 2005 From: tompoe at fiai.net (tom poe) Date: 04 Jul 2005 16:25:39 -0500 Subject: [Community_studios] specs received Message-ID: <1120512339.1175.24.camel@notes.openstudios.org> Hi, David: Received your specs for the computer. PIV with lots of disk space. We'll want to reformat the hard drive so that it can load/install Fedora Core 4, using CDs, as the preferable way to go, if you have a budget to work with. The steps are documented nicely, at: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ I would recommend you subscribe to the mailing list (link provided on first page), and when you can, read through as much of the material as possible, before actually carrying out the steps. At the same time, here's a link where you can purchase the CDs: http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070011175.html price: $8.99 plus shipping It's actually a DVD. If you need CDs, then: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr price: $10.00 plus shipping Here we go! Tom From tompoe at fiai.net Wed Jul 6 08:52:42 2005 From: tompoe at fiai.net (tom poe) Date: 06 Jul 2005 07:52:42 -0500 Subject: [Community_studios] [Fwd: Re: General Question] Copyright Office website Message-ID: <1120654362.5765.33.camel@notes.openstudios.org> Below, is an exchange between the Folklife Reading Room at the U.S. Copyright Office and Open Studios. Due diligence is claimed by the office, regarding copyright issues on the songs posted to their web site. However, performance rights are mixed, with some songs receiving clearance for use on the site, i.e., performers were contacted by the office, and others in a state of limbo. My question is, can anyone in the U.S. rely on the due diligence from the office for purposes of copyright, and consequently choose to attach a public domain license to a copy of the song from the site? I am assuming that Open Studios will work with the office to establish contact with performers for permission to use the song on its site. For those songs that are in limbo, regarding performers' rights clearance, is there a disclaimer that can easily be posted regarding the cc-license selected (public domain)? Thanks, Tom Poe Open Studios Charles City, Iowa, USA www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/ -----Forwarded Message----- From: Folklife Reading Room To: tom poe Cc: Community Studios , Open Studios Subject: Re: General Question Date: 28 Jun 2005 18:03:21 -0400 We are not allowed to choose items for people in that way. You'll need to browse the on-line collections and see which cuts may work. Again, _all_ of the songs that are on-line from the Folklife Center are OK as far as copyright is concerned, so all you need to deal with are any performer rights that may still apply. So once you've chosen potential items, please send us the list (if you use the AFS call numbers and provide the names of the performers, that will expedite our searches as well as make sure that we're all dealing with the same songs), and we'll then check our correspondence files to see if there's someone you'll need to contact before you can disseminate the materials further. (The relatively-few performers or estates that we've been able to contact have given the Library of Congress permission to use those recordings, but they haven't given up their rights for all other users.) Again, all of the actual audio is on-line via the connections from the list of our on-line collections: < http://www.loc.gov/folklife/onlinecollections.html > When you go from that page to the homepages for each collection, you'll be able to search by performer or titles, etc. When you click on those links, you'll come to pages where you can select a listening format (mp3 or RealAudio or wav files), depending on the speed of your browser, etc. Our on-line music collections include WPA recordings from various ethnic groups in Florida, from migrant camps in California, from southern states visited by John and Ruby Lomax in 1939, from a West Virginia fiddler, from Georgia festivals in the 1930s and 1940s, from Omaha Indian people in the 1890s and 1980s, from Spanish-speaking people in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, etc. There will be many options for you to choose from, depending on the audience you're serving. And if you supply the URL for the various collection homepages, people will be able to get to those recordings and more. (Please note that the structure of all of the Library's American Memory collections means that the various songs do NOT have permanent URLs: you can't copy a link and have the same thing will appear each time. Instead you have to supply instructions on searching for the song title or performer from the homepage of the collection.) Let us know if you have additional questions about the procedures or those idiosyncracies of the American Memory pages, etc. Judith Gray Reference Specialist American Folklife Center Library of Congress Washington DC 20540-4610 On 28 Jun 2005, tom poe wrote: > Hello: Thank you for your response. I believe the next steps, then, > are to identify one song that is in the public domain, i.e., a song > created prior to 1923, and then, identify from that group, a song that > we can confidently rely on the work done by the American Folklife Center > to get permission to publish the song (offer the link to the song, > directly) for listeners to download, enjoy, and share with others. Can > you help accomplish these two steps, and provide the link for me? > Thanks, > Tom > > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 14:47, Folklife Reading Room wrote: > > On 28 Jun 2005, tom poe wrote: > > > > > Hello: Are there any recordings in your collections that are identified > > > as belonging to our country's public domain? If so, could you identify > > > those songs which may be linked from our web site for listeners to enjoy > > > and share with others? > > > Respectfully, > > > Tom Poe > > > Charles City, Iowa, USA > > > > > > "Public domain" generally refers to materials that were once under > > copyright and on which copyright has since lapsed. So compositions that > > were first published before 1923 are public domain. > > > > But copyright doesn't deal with performer rights. Copyright applies to > > the compositions themselves, typically as set down in sheet music or other > > kinds of scores. Sound recordings themselves were not copyrightable until > > around 1972. > > > > So the persons who were recorded between 1890 and the early 1970s never > > had an opportunity to copyright their artistic creations as long as those > > were in audio format only. At this point, it becomes a matter of ethics > > more than of legalities. > > > > For these reasons, we require good-faith attempts to contact each > > performer or performer's estate before any of the approximately 100,000 > > hours of unpublished recordings here can be disseminated. This work has > > been done, for example, for each on-line presentation on our website, as > > well as for each commercial or published release of recordings from our > > collections. > > > > So you're definitely welcome to create a link on your web site to our > > websites: < http://www.loc.gov/folklife/onlinecollections.html > (There > > are over 300 hours of material, both music and spoken word, in these > > collections.) If you want to take excerpts from any of those collections, > > however, please be sure to retain all of the necessary credit information: > > performer's name, song title, call number, collection name, American > > Folklife Center, Library of Congress. > > > > But if you would like to explore additional on-line publication, you will > > need to select those recordings and then do the good-faith searches. > > We can talk you through that process. > > > > If you have additional questions about the procedures, please let me know. > > > > Judith Gray > > Reference Specialist > > American Folklife Center > > Library of Congress > > Washington DC 20540-4610 > > > > > > > From tompoe at fiai.net Wed Jul 6 14:04:15 2005 From: tompoe at fiai.net (tom poe) Date: 06 Jul 2005 13:04:15 -0500 Subject: [Community_studios] European software patent legislation defeated Message-ID: <1120673056.1167.2.camel@notes.openstudios.org> http://lists.ffii.org/pipermail/news/2005-July/000302.html New slogan for the Digital Age Enlightenment: "If it's human knowledge, it can't be patented." 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