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30 Jul 08

David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars

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What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But that's not bad news for music, and it's certainly not bad news for musicians. Indeed, with all the ways to reach an audience, there have never been more opportunities for artists.
What is music?

First, a definition of terms. What is it we're talking about here? What exactly is being bought and sold? In the past, music was something you heard and experienced — it was as much a social event as a purely musical one. Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. Epic songs and ballads, troubadours, courtly entertainments, church music, shamanic chants, pub sing-alongs, ceremonial music, military music, dance music — it was pretty much all tied to specific social functions. It was communal and often utilitarian. You couldn't take it home, copy it, sell it as a commodity (except as sheet music, but that's not music), or even hear it again. Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone — a memory.
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- Freedom versus pragmatism
  
  These models are not absolute. They can morph and evolve. Hausman and Mann took the total DIY route at first, getting money orders and sending out CDs in Express Mail envelopes; later on they licensed the records to distributors. And things change over time. In the future, we will see more artists take up these various models or mix and match versions of them. For existing and emerging artists — who read about the music business going down the drain — this is actually a great time, full of options and possibilities. The future of music as a career is wide open.
- No single model will work for everyone. There's room for all of us. Some artists are the Coke and Pepsi of music, while others are the fine wine — or the funky home-brewed moonshine. And that's fine. I like Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man." Sometimes a corporate soft drink is what you want — just not at the expense of the other thing. In the recent past, it often seemed like all or nothing, but maybe now we won't be forced to choose.
  
  Ultimately, all these scenarios have to satisfy the same human urges: What do we need music to do? How do we visit the land in our head and the place in our heart that music takes us to? Can I get a round-trip ticket?

Seth's Blog: Music lessons

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Music lessons

Things you can learn from the music business (as it falls apart)
There’s a paradox in the music business that is mirrored in many industries: you want ubiquity, not obscurity, yet digital distribution devalues your core product.
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- 4. Permission is the asset of the future
  For generations, businesses had no idea who their end users were. No ability to reach through the record store and figure out who was buying that Rolling Stones album, no way to know who bought this book or that vase.
- 7. Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
  Bob and his handlers have a long track record of finding movements. Anti-war movements, sure, but also rock movies, the Grateful Dead, SACDs, Christian rock and Apple fanboys. What Bob has done (and I think he’s done it sincerely, not as a calculated maneuver) is seek out groups that want to be connected and he works to become the connecting the point.
- The biggest opportunity for the music business is to combine permission with subscription. The possibilities are endless. And I know it's hard to believe, but the good old days are yet to happen.

30 Mar 08

Good Experience - Oscar-winning animated shorts

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10 Mar 08

BCLT – Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

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The mission of the Berkeley
Center for Law & Technology is to foster beneficial and ethical advancement
of technology by promoting the understanding and guiding the development
of intellectual property and related fields of law and policy as they intersect
with business, science and technology. - brianddrpm on 2008-03-10

MIT World » : A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works

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ABOUT THE LECTURE:
Pamela Samuelson walks her audience through dense and murky regulations and case law surrounding digital rights management, glimpsing a somewhat brighter way ahead for advocates of fair use.

21 Jan 08

Pathways to New Paradigms Define How We Communicate Define Our Culture

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For science geeks of all levels of intensity this article from Science Magazine is like a candy store. Anybody who by chance stops by this post should go to the original article provided above. Below are the samplings of resources available on these various subjects.

18 Dec 07

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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MIT Media Lab: Chris Csikszentmihályi

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Chris Csikszentmihályi directs the Media Lab's Computing Culture group, which works to create unique media technologies for cultural applications.

Volunteer Abroad, Volunteering overseas, International Expeditions, Overseas TEFL courses

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Project Vote Smart - American Government, Elections, Candidates and Voting

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16 Dec 07

New York Law School: Professor Beth Noveck

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An expert on the impact of technology on legal and political institutions, Beth Simone Noveck directs the Institute for Information Law & Policy (

Gordon Quinn :: Kartemquin Films

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President and founding member of Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 40 years. Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun Times, called his first film Home For Life (1966) "an extraordinarily moving documentary." With Home For Life, Gordon established the direction he would take for the next four decades, making cinéma vérité films that investigate and critique society by documenting the unfolding lives of real people.