A quick update on the Canadian copyright extension for sound recordings: The magisterium of the professoriate in Canada is equivocating yet again on the difference between artists who write songs and artists who don’t and misleading the public in the process. I know that’s a shocker. While you recover, a quick detour on the difference […]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has announced that Canada will expand the current 50 year copyright term for sound recordings in Canada to 70 years. This brings Canada into the 21st Century and in line with its global trading partners. Expect handwringing from Big Tech and the magisterium of the professoriate, some of which […]
“Americans are freedom loving people and nothing says ‘freedom’ like getting away with it.” From Long, Long Time by Guy Forsyth. How many times have you heard the expression, “DMCA license”? The expression is completely baseless, yet it has come to be used to describe an online company that uses music, movies, television, books and […]
You can’t have been in the music business for very long without getting the idea that it’s a round world. We have been an international business almost from the time there was a concept of international trade and cultural exchange. It’s a two way street–there is a well-trodden path from the US abroad and from […]
