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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>
  • To: Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Community_studios] Newsletter Issue #2: September, 2003
  • Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 22:45:32 -0000

OPEN STUDIOS: RUNNING BOARD

Remember when cars sported running boards out of practical necessity?
Most roads back then weren't paved like our roads, today.

The Digital Age, still in its' infancy, requires the use of electronic
running boards. People are out there that have never used a computer.
Most people don't understand how computers work [I just raised my hand],
let alone how to make CD's, DVD's, MP3's, OGG, WAV, and the list goes
on.

And, in the arts and sciences, from musicians to artists to authors, the
knowledge that recordings no longer requires an expensive recording
studio is restricted to just a few. This newsletter intends to help
musicians, artists, and authors to step out and enter the Digital Age.
We'll provide the running board to help you avoid the "mud". If you're
involved in the arts, we hope you'll join us each month for:
1] Entertainment news
2] The Community Scene
3] How They Do It
4] Featured Artists, Musicians, and Authors
5] Columns
a] Anatoly Volynets
b] Alex Heizer
6] Commons Gallery
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"Trust everyone, but cut the cards" -- Who said that?
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Open Studios continues its registration process with states throughout
the country. As a nonprofit organization, we seek donations and
contributions from the public. Many states therefore, require that we
register with them. Some five states permit registration without fees,
or don't require registration at all at this point. The rest,
apparently, require fees of $10, $15, up to $80 USD or more. We view
this process as an important and necessary, if not onerous, burden. Can
you help? The full story is at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/statereg.html . We call it
our SPONSOR A STATE PROJECT.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:
Each month, we'll highlight a few of the previous month's news articles
(hopefully with active links). Subscribers and supporters are encouragd
to email us with links you found to be interesting. We'll add them
here. It's a good way for collecting an archive you can refer to when
you need it as part of your Internet business strategies.
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http://news.findlaw.com/entertainment/s/20030818/mediapiracydc.html
Monday, Aug. 18, 2003
Music Industry Says Targets Only Major Swappers
By Peter Kaplan

"The Recording Industry Association of America pledged in a letter to
U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, that it is "in
no way targeting de minimus users" in its campaign to stop the copying
of songs without permission."
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http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=434778
Texting blamed for summer movie flops
By Andrew Gumbel
18 August 2003

"The problem, they say, is teenagers who instant message their friends
with their verdict on new films - sometimes while they are still in the
cinema watching - and so scuppering carefully crafted marketing
campaigns designed to lure audiences out to a big movie on its opening
weekend."
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http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/8-28-2003/20030828053004_16.html
Online Music Broadcasters Sue RIAA
By RON HARRIS Associated Press Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2003

"The suit alleges the negotiations for arriving at royalty rates to
broadcast songs over the Internet violated federal antitrust laws and
seeks an injunction that would prevent the major labels from enforcing
their intellectual property rights and collecting royalty payments."
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http://news.findlaw.com/ap/ht/1700/8-28-2003/20030828003005_01.html
RIAA Discloses Some Methods of Tracking
By TED BRIDIS AP Technology Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2003

"According to the documents, the Recording Industry Association of
America examined song files on the woman's computer and traced their
digital fingerprints back to the former Napster file-sharing service,
which shut down in 2001 after a court ruled it violated copyright laws."
"The RIAA, the trade group for the largest record labels, said it also
found other evidence inside the woman's music files suggesting the songs
were recorded by other people and distributed across the Internet."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1030176,00.html
Auntie's digital revelation
Thursday August 28, 2003
The Guardian

"Last Sunday, Greg Dyke changed that. He revealed that the BBC is
planning to digitise and offer for download, for free, as much of its
back catalogue of programmes that it can legally do, from the earliest
radio reels to nature documentaries to educational programmes. Anyone
will be allowed to re-use, re-edit and mix this material with their own,
provided it's for non-commercial use."
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http://makeashorterlink.com/?S11151EB5
Prison perfect
By Colleen Creamer, ccreamer AT nashvillecitypaper.com
August 29, 2003

"The movie set would be good for the city, Simpson said, because it
would draw more film and television projects to Nashville and could
conceivably becomes a tourist attraction. Currently there are no outside
sets in Nashville."

"FilmNashville president Andy Van Roon, who is a strong supporter of
Simpson’s ideology, agreed that Nashwood would benefit both Nashville’s
film community as well as meet the needs of inner city youth."
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THE COMMUNITY SCENE:
Open Studios works with communities around the country and around the
world to build and operate community-based recording studios. You can
keep up with the latest happenings by checking this section each month.
Learn what others are doing, and get ideas for your community.

Beatrice Begumisa (she likes to be called, Maria) lives in Kampala,
Uganda. Last summer, she volunteered with Open Studios. Over the
months, we have tried to contact Kampala city officials, the news media,
church members, and her friends, to stir up interest in starting a
community-based recording studio. To date, no luck at any level, other
than her friends are watching to see what happens. The obvious solution
is to obtain a donated computer here in the U.S., load it up, and send
it to her, ready to go. Once she has the computer in hand, we have no
doubt that the Kampala city officials, news media, and friends will be
most interested.

This is not an unusual situation. Open Studios has run into the same
roadblock with folks right here in the United States. It seems to be
difficult for most people to visualize what a community-based recording
studio is, or how to get one started. Plans are underway now, to create
a video that is a show and tell approach to starting a community-based
recording studio. Maria and Open Studios will keep you posted. . . .
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HOW THEY DO IT:
This on-going series explores potential business strategies and ideas
for musicians, artists, and authors interested in pursuing careers
outside mainstream industry practices.

Robert Lazaneo, a songwriter in Reno, Nevada, wants to kick start his
recording career. Several months ago, with no money in his pockets, and
lots of talent, teamed up with Open Studios to begin the journey.

One of his projects was to take a set of lyrics from Olu Victor-Omole,
who is a poor songwriter living in Accra, Ghana, West Africa, and set
them to music. Collaboration between two poor songwriters living so far
apart, and the only recording equipment available to them was what Open
Studios could provide. Using nothing but low-end computer equipment,
and Open Source software, the result is found here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/music/miles.ogg
size: 4.6Mb

Robert now has his own computer, is working to expose his talents in the
local community of Reno, and hopes to start a community-based recording
studio in the months to come. We'll keep you posted. In the meantime,
check out his web page:
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/lazaneo.html
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FEATURED ARTISTS:
Got a story to tell? Want to expand your audience? Help the world
discover you. Contact us, today, and we'll feature you here.
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COLUMNS:
A] Anatoly Volynets - Culture vs. Copyright
CULTURE vs. COPYRIGHT
How I Got Involved

I am a scholar, who has been thinking and working on the problem of the
school of the future for more than 25 years. Conducting my studies and
research, I encountered and have participated in development of the
theory of the School of the Dialog of Cultures, which was an offshoot of
the general theory of the Dialog of Cultures. This is how I got
involved in the studies of, and acquired some fundamental knowledge
about, culture, its nature, its role in human life and the ways it plays
this role.

When the arrest of Russian programmer, Dimitri Sklyarov, in 2001,
occurred, I recalled that I had encountered a similar problem before.

It happened when I first arrived in the U.S. I contacted one of my
American colleagues and we arranged some guidelines for further
cooperation. One was about the promotion of American research works in
the humanities in the Ukraine and Russia. One day, I received a
panicked email from a scientist to stop translation of his previously
published article, because he was not sure if he retained copyright on
it. I just did not understand. It looked so obviously wrong! A
scientist is not free to get his work known? What is science for? That
story was so incredible, but . . . . it was forgotten up until the
Sklyarov case.

The arrest of Dimitri Sklyarov hurt me. What is this now? A scientist
may get arrested and jailed for conducting research and engineering?
For the sake of what? Who is going to win here, and what are they going
to win? This is how I started to think about the problem of
"intellectual property", particularly about copyrights. I subscribed to
the ANTI-DMCA mailing list at:
http://lists.microshaft.org/mailman/listinfo/dmca-discuss
and jumped into the discussion.

Everything I had learned about culture erupted in my mind when I was
introduced to the copyright concept. I felt bewildered after I judged
it from a purely cultural standpoint. Copyright just did not fit
anything I knew. I tried to avoid any other sides of the problem,
trying to solve it in principle. Despite this effort, related issues
gradually took over my thoughts, got formulated as problems to solve,
and . . . .here I am.

I am surprised, proud of myself and terrified, all at the same time.
Why? In March of 2002, I wrote an essay called, "10 Suspicions" for the
Wipout contest at http://wwww.wipout.net . It was research in my own
method, which I call "logical toys". I made some conclusions, which at
that time seemed to me to be predictions. I got no prize in the
contest, but all of my "predictions" turned out to be direct
descriptions of reality. Sometimes, while I am listening to interviews
with artists, singers, stand-up comedians, writers, journalists, I hear
observations, which sound literally the same as my theoretical
formulas. The only difference is that virtually nobody concludes that
the very idea of copyright is wrong. I do. I have no room in my mind
for any other conclusion.

Anatoly Volynets, Board member of Open Studios, and President of
Total-knowledge.com, will continue his thoughts next month about the
role of copyright in the Digital Age. You can contact Anatoly at:
av AT total-knowledge.com
***
This article licensed under Authoright:
http://www.culturedialogue.org/
***
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B] Alex Heizer
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COMMONS GALLERY BEST OF THE BEST:
The Creative Commons Project offers musicians, artists, and authors a
nifty way to meet their legal needs for licensing their works for
distribution across the Internet. If readers discover interesting
material that sports the Creative Commons tag, let us know, and we'll
link it here. Attach your photo with your suggested link, to be added
to the gallery. Let's spread the word!

This month, we point you to Cory Doctorow:
http://boingboing.net/
Cory's written a book, "Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom", and uses
Creative Commons licensing options. You'll see an interesting strategy
for marketing, as he offers both free download, and purchase
opportunity. We applaud Cory, and wish him the best success can offer.
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OPEN STUDIOS:SONG HUNTER is now launching a test site at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/mt/Weblog/ . Please visit
soon, and comment on what features we should add. Here you will find a
searchable database of songs, CD's, DVD's, multi-media works that are
all licensed with the Creative Commons Project. Once we have the design
and features that will be user friendly, we'll polish it up and release
it to the world. Enjoy!
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OPEN STUDIOS:RUNNING BOARD is available as a loose-leaf binder
subscription for your home or office. Tastefully done, I might add, to
impress your friends and visitors, or to give as a lovely gift to
friends and relatives. Help support Open Studios by ordering your
subscription, today. Visit our online gift shop at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/onlineshop.html
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http://www.studioforrecording.org/
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We're looking for volunteers to work on the newsletter. Send an email
and let us know what you'd like to do.
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Won't you help support Open Studios, today? Please visit our homepage
and click on the DONATE NOW link. Or, if you prefer, send a check or
money order to:
Open Studios
241 Crampton
Reno, NV 89502-2438
NOTE: Check our wish list for contributions we need:
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/wishlist.html
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Licensed as Public Domain with the Creative Commons Project, August 1,
2003.
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