Favorites this week are usually divided into two groups: ". [Fill-in-the-blank] misbehave" picture stories tall and the combination of these approaches related new technologies is what keeps me check Techdirt every week. Besides, I like seeing my name in lights, ha, ha, ha ...



a brief introduction: I am the CEO of Alternative Tentacles Records, a small basement, punk, emphasis, indie, and most left label is Jello Biafra of the property. One began in 1979 with the single of the Dead Kennedys. Not a member of the RIAA, A2IM, or any group of the music industry. My opinions do not represent those of Jello Biafra and other artists or staff. They are based on my experiences as a band member in several independent labels and working on a couple of labels, as well as being a DJ for 20 years at the local college radio station KALX Berkeley excellent. In addition, as CEO of a small label, I am very closely to technology - our site is very limited, but we have progressed to SoundCloud, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and do our best to maintain our reputation and our own faithful. Of course, in contact with the fans (FCF) and give them a reason to buy (RTB) has always been the rule in punk rock. Without your reputation, you are nothing. If your representative is sinking, you're a sellout, a has-been, and / or a crook. Of course there are always some ignorant players that support it, but the vast majority reject.



The first is a story of Big Picture, which is positive, a little Techdirt. If piracy is so devastating, why are we seeing an unprecedented outpouring of creativity? Tuesday. It is an important reminder that people are creating content and upload it to various social networks and platforms every second. But the bad part of this ringing in my ears prick up are the "copyright industries and cultural commentators" simplistic - and certainly a novel Twitter and YouTube are new webisodes, "real" content, but not an exaggeration to make a value judgment that my word after 10 Facebook is not as creative as, for example, the last album of their favorite band. (Beat that, it depends on how smart I am and what the band I love you [/ tangent]), even referring to an equivalence is a false note in another observer, thought-provoking post.

Another scenario is optimistic medium, medium-depressive - that is the Constitutional Court the right Yes, the sole purpose of copyright is to benefit the public . I'm quite a geek civic, have strong emotions about the Constitution and misunderstandings that bothers me the highest degree. (As you can imagine, my head hurts when I read about the latest attacks on the Constitution by Arizona sheriff particular, the Presidents of recent years, many people in Congress and many others.)



I would like the following paragraph should read for those who want to publish here:

"I find it hard to understand why so many people ... so difficult to separate for the purpose of the method. Yes, the article gives Congress create copyright - but for a purpose. " promote the progress of science "Nowhere is suggested, or even suspicion, the idea that copyright is intended to benefit the creators, but the method is to say that .. the protections of the author are greater than or equal to benefits for the nation, is a clear flip-flop of the method for this purpose. course, do not just flip-flops of the method and purpose, but it completely distorts the nature of maximalist positions of the right author and brings a style that gives the slightest consideration to the way public benefits (or, more importantly, is injured) from specific changes in the copyright. "



A quick post before going negative in the trash talk messages real-er, "[fill-in-the-blank] misbehave." It is related to the foregoing, it is international in scope, which I think is a major asset Techdirt - step by step on what is dominating headlines in the U.S. / North America and social media networks.



is summarized in the title, only because it is now cheaper and easier to spy on everybody all the time, does not mean that the governments should do! It is a good summary of a true "slippery slope" with the points where the slope metaphor, it might be slipping into a surveillance state stopped if people had realized what was happening, if supervision by government that was not the law: It can, could, did not.

(And that's exactly why my colleagues in the music industry "slippery slope" argument fails. They assume that there are no controls on the phenomena of possible slip technology to all free all the time as well as gross and government regulations ultimately useless The fact that artists and labels that I resist the RIAA and A2IM restrictive view of copyright is the key. - they must also earn their living as artists and small businesses in the distribution of creative works. We are not naive idiots and we are considering ways to keep our fans excited about our music and bands in the world in multiple formats.)

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Now, "[fill in the blank] Behaving Badly". Let's start w / government. A couple made me see red, partly because, like most Republicans are not rabid, had hoped to put a constitutional law professor at the White House would be enough to stop the destruction of civil rights after 9 Bush 43 / 11/01. Once again, vindictive administration accused a whistleblower as a spy is the kind of story that illustrates the key equivalence famous Ralph Nader Republicans and Democrats were correct. (Make no mistake, Gen. George W. Bush 43 was worse for civil rights, because he attacked the social freedoms and rights at work as well.)

This story is particularly frustrating because it goes after a courageous government employee who blew the whistle on torture damned practiced by our government. Guh.

defender of civil liberties, common sense in me, too bother with companies in New York Thurs convinces offenders registered sex story Kick Off Gaming Services. As a species, but we need to stop hyperventilating the worst of the worst and realize that, like the message, a sex offender can be a lot of people. Someone called the nude, drunk pissing in an alley (not me, I swear!) Or an artist whose work includes nudity, or a couple of teens with oral sex, or a young person who receives a naked picture of how your phone are all potential sex offenders, as is the local DA running for reelection. It kind of embarrasses any silly political posturing all actors and diverts attention from the best efforts of the Government (see: create jobs, feed the hunger crisis, the exclusion of the battle).


now a prime target of Techdirt, the music industry, including myself. As a community radio DJ, I know firsthand the stupidity and unintended consequences of the DMCA. So when the big plunge back into the royalty rate, I'm really nervous and start to duck for cover. The idea of ??royalty and the different types of copyright is based requires that the distribution system does not make sense, even though my work is based on income of creative works and you would think that all aid. Bzzt! Even if they are poorly paid some of these rights (ha ha ha!) It would take a strangle proven promotion (radio) to press a little nickels. Music industry will create a new price is the type of dry analytical discussion, the Copyright Royalty Board that you must be a special breed of geek to understand. And unintended consequences that may require local services to pay for us consumers to store music purchased legally in their services could be enormous. And content creators to us - why my group has to pay extra for Soundcloud hear a song you wrote? This is a detail that must be maintained at the top. The last story I want to emphasize is a rare first-person account of an artist, a perspective on the complexities of copyright and creativity of a rape victim by Erin McKeown about his experiences with the protection of their creative work and how their ethics and the law get in his pending case in Eastern Europe.
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