11.07
DGM HQ.
A sunny morning…
DGM Parking Lot…
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11.37 SoundWorld II.
David…
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… and Robert are mastering At The End Of Time: Churchscapes In England & Estonia…
In the inbox…
How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer By Sion Touhig
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/29/photojournalism_and_copyright/
Published Friday 29th December 2006 10:24 GMT
*Comment* We’re continually being told the Internet empowers the individual. But speaking as an individual creative worker myself, I’d argue that all this Utopian revolution has achieved so far in my sector is to disempower individuals, strengthen the hand of multinational businesses, and decrease the pool of information available to audiences. All things that the technology utopians say they wanted to avoid.
I’m a freelance professional photographer, and in recent years, the internet ’economy’ has devastated my sector… So what’s the problem? Well, lets look at one trend which would appear to suggest more "democracy" in the media - but actually doesn’t – and that’s ’User Contributed Content’, or ’Citizen Journalism’. The mainstream media has propagandized hard for Citizen Journalism ever since the mobile phone images of the July 7th London bombings, but sadly, this enthusiasm has little to do with journalism or democratising the media..
User Contributed Content should be more accurately termed ’Audience Stolen Content’, because media groups rarely pay for Citizen Journalism images and more often than not, either claim the copyright or an all-encompassing license from contributors, when they send their pictures in. That’s a copyright grab in all but name…
15.16 The final through-listen of At The End Of Time with a future-shift removed, at the recommendation of Sean Fitzpatrick.
CBS and YouTube decide against marriageProposed content deal collapses By Lester Haines
Published Wednesday 21st February 2007 09:41 GMT
A proposed deal which would have seen clips of CBS shows posted on YouTube has collapsed, Reuters reports. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and CBS had been agreeing a "multi-year" contract but finally "could not agree on issues such as how long the deal would run". Accordingly, YouTubers will now not be able to (legally) enjoy excerpts from faves such as The Late Show with David Letterman.
16.17 DGM Live’s top download is Asbury Park. How is the venue today? Courtesy of Michael Black I…
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16.56 Churchscapes: ace. One further small modification for the morning, in addition to today’s small mod.
22.26 Practising. Listening to several tracks sent for guitar contributions. Computing.
"Nothing is compulsory, but some things are necessary."
