This is a message to the guys behind the IP Colloquium Podcast, an Audio Podcast about Intellectual Property Law, hosted by Doug Lichtman, Scholar in Residence at the UCLA School of Law, and brought to us by the UCLA School of Law, the law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP and the Intellectual Property Symposium. I hope you guys have your ears on! If you’re an attorney, the IP Colloquium Podcast can be used as CLE Credit.
First of all, Thanks for the IP Colloquium Podcast. This is great stuff so far.
I wanted to point out a few things about your WebSite that are annoying for ‘Power-Users’ like me and/or that are standing in your own way.
I really think you guys should consider a quick re-build using a more standards-compliant Content Management System (CMS), like my favorite, WordPress (which is free and great for podcasting). This really only takes about an hour or two to do and requires no special skills. It’s especially easy for a site like yours that has such a minor burden of content migration. Joomla and Drupal are also free, but for the IPC-Cast, I recommend WordPress. There is also a handful of other powerful open-source CMS solutions out there that I haven’t mentioned. Bottom line, you don’t need to spend money on software.
Anyway, I’m just trying to help. Keep up the great work! The Podcast is great.
I left a comment for the Obama Administration via their new online “suggestion box“at change.gov. I sent in a suggestion hoping that the Obama Administration look at Lawrence Lessig as someone who could help out in some way. I didn’t say “Attorney General” but maybe I should have. Here’s what I did say:
Lawrence Lessig should be looked at by the new administration for positions like ‘Technology Czar,’ ‘Federal CTO,’ ‘Chairman/Commissioner of the FCC,’ or any other position in which Ethics and the Public Interest in matters of Technology and/or Communications are concerned.
Professor Lessig has already proven himself as an advocate for the people as an Educator, an Attorney, an Author and an Activist.
I’m sure there are many, many others like me who believe that the Obama administration, and more importantly, the American People would benefit from having Lawrence Lessig’s sound judgement and clear voice involved in the Federal decision-making processes.
He’s one of my personal heroes, and he cares about America, its consumer’s, their rights, the possibilities of modern technology, and the importance of our culture as it evolves and we grow with it.
Thanks for having this open suggestion box.
The Open Rights Group is out there. I have no idea what they aim to do. There are a bunch of new projects that have sprouted up online for various goals having to do with Intellectual Property in the digital realm, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, and more recently, the Featured Artist’s Coalition…
My question is, is the O.R.G. a friend or a foe?
I’m a child of digital media, and I’m also an artist. I’m also a creator of other forms of content like this blog.
The Open Rights Group’s site is so confusing and not-clear in its mission at first glance. For all I can tell it’s a front for a major publisher effort.
Really, the site is terribly unclear. Maybe I was supposed to spend a bunch of time digging for the agenda there.
Please, you guys, make it clear!
I can help if you want, but damn. I can’t even tell what you stand for.
It needs to be completely clear to anyone visiting the site, as soon as they get there, me thinks.
Well shit, I don’t know what to say. Martha Stewart is teaching her fans to blog. OK. That’s cool. Seems kinds weird. But hey! Let’s do this!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52z7iOdmXNE]
I watched this while I typed this crap.
Wow. Martha has an aggregation of bloggers on her site. …And it’s not the whole episode. Well crap. Oh well. I did my job.
The FAC is a new organisation for advocacy of music artists’ rights in the digital distribution space. Among the Artists already onboard are Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and Billy Bragg. One interesting thing about their “charter” is that they are advocating for artists to retain ultimate rights to their work, which in case you didn’t know, isn’t how it normally works in the major-label system.
“…We speak with one voice to help artists strike a new bargain with record companies, digital distributors and others…”
As long as this organisation doesn’t become a new RIAA, by suing the pants off music lovers, or advocating network filtering by ISP’s, I’m all for this. Labels get too much for too little while screwing over the fans and artists at almost every turn.
If you’re listening, FAC, please don’t become another RIAA. OK?
Some quotes from the Press Release (pdf HERE):
ARTISTS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR NEW DIGITAL RIGHTSThe Verve, Radiohead, Jools Holland, Kaiser Chiefs, Kate Nash, Robbie Williams and Billy Bragg are among dozens of musicians and performers calling for changes to the law and record industry
[...]
The new organisation will campaign for specific changes to the laws governing the music industry and how business is conducted, so that:
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The new organisation will campaign for specific changes to the laws governing the music industry and how business is conducted, so that:
- artists always retain ultimate ownership of their music
- all agreements between artists and others are conducted in a fair and transparent manner
- rights’ holders have a duty of care to the originator of those rights, and must always explain how any agreement may affect how their work is exploited.
[...]
The Coalition will begin by focusing on six areas where it is seeking change:
- An agreement by the music industry that artists should receive fair compensation whenever their business partners receive an economic return from the exploitation of the artists’ work.
- All transfers of copyright should be by license rather than by assignment, and limited to 35 years.
- The making available right should be monetized on behalf of featured artistes and all other performers.
- Copyright owners to be obliged to follow a ‘use it or lose it’ approach to the copyrights they control.
- The rights for performers should be the same as those for authors (songwriters, lyricists and composers).
- A change to UK copyright law which will end the commercial exploitation of unlicensed music purporting to be used in conjunction with ‘critical reviews’.
(just an idea I had in the middle of the night… maybe it’s a good one?)
It just occurred to me that what artists like me, who are non-label, totally independent, need is a tracker/directory site for us to upload out torrents to. A tracker that’s 100% legal music.
I’m thinking since when you launch a .torrent file, depending on the client, you can select what files you want to download, artists can include in one torrent, a few different versions of their releases. For instance, I could include a flac version, and two different mp3 bitrates, all album artwork bundled with each compression scheme separately, and each version in it’s own folder.
The user selects the one torrent, launches it, selects the folder for the version they want, and they get what they want.
*Artist is distributing without needing a central server…
*Fans of indie/niche music are getting what they want the way they want it. And there’s a central place for hard-to-find and/or totally legally-distributed-via-P2P music.
There may also be advantages to creating a recommendation engine that excludes major-label music: Maybe major label music obscures the analysis of music taste in some cases? Just a thought.
I wrote a letter to the peeps at The Pirate Bay. Maybe they’ll read it and write me back.
read below if you want my introduction/thoughts on this video…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8AtVBQ8MBE]
This is an interesting presentation. It’s not told quite right for my taste, but it emphasizes how hard it is to see outside the current technology/media paradigm, mostly by showing clips from the early days of TV and computing… The similarities in the language between then and now are pretty stunning.
Very notable for me was a clip of Marshall McCluhan in the 1960′s speaking about how audiences want to feel included in media. Sound familiar?
Also touched on is McCluhan’s “Global Village” concept which will surely inspire much near-future reading for me. The ‘Global Village’ is basically a visionary concept to this day.
McCluhan, thanks to Peter Hirshberg, will probably become a new teacher of mine. At this rate, I may have a college level education by the time I’m 40 years old.
Really, I should say that Peter Hirshberg does a really good job in this presentaion compiling a lot for us to chew on in a short amount of time, even if it is all a little bit scatter-brained in my opinion. My preview notes don’t do justice to the ground covered. I couldn’t do better.
OH! He even touches on how the late 60′s, counter-culture and LSD may have influenced the birth of Open-Source and Personal Computing! Interesting stuff.
Peter Hirshberg is a veteran of old media as well as new, and now, new-new media (now just considered new)… The list of companies he’s been involved with is amazing:
And finally, don’t miss the cameo by James Burke who we all know (or should know) and love from the show Connections (about the history of technology and innovation). In the presentation, Peter Hirshberg shows a commercial in which Burke is a spokesperson for Apple, promoting “HyperCard,” a predecessor to HTML (HyperCard is not networked).
Hirshberg’s list of companies he’s been involved with is pretty impressive and includes some of my favorites, Technorati and Apple. Copied from his TypePad Bio:
Biography
Peter Hirshberg is a Silicon Valley executive, entrepreneur and marketing innovator who most recently served as president and CEO of Gloss.com, the major multi-brand beauty ecommerce business co-owned by Estee Lauder Companies, Chanel and Clarins. Launched in Fall 2001, Gloss features prestige cosmetic brands including Clinique, MAC, Prescriptives, Estee Lauder, Origins, Bobbi Brown, Stila, Chanel and Clarins.
Hirshberg served as Chairman of Interpacket Networks, the global leader in Internet Via Satellite, before its acquisition by American Tower Corporation in October 2000. From 1996-1999, Hirshberg was founder/CEO of Elemental Software, developer of the award- winning Drumbeat 2000 family of e-business web development software. Backed by Accel partners, AT&T Corporation, and Microsoft, Elemental Software was acquired by Macromedia Incorporated in September 1999.
During a nine-year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing, where he grew Apple’s large business and government revenue to $1 billion annually and helped lead the company’s entry into the online service arena. After leaving Apple, Hirshberg’s new-media strategy firm served clients including America Online, Microsoft, NBC Television Network, Estee Lauder, Pacific Bell and Silicon Graphics.
Hirshberg is a founder of Goodmail Systems, a board member of ICTV, and serves on the advisory boards of start-ups Technorati and Informative. He is a Trustee of The Computer History Museum and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Peter earned his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.
2 Videos from Jack Conte’s YouTube Channel
This is an interesting video. Reminds a little of the film, “The Science of Sleep.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzr32OqGlOA]
And this one is cool because it shows the recording process of the song.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M60Txqxtw4]
So who is Jack Conte? I have no idea. He’s awesome though.
Here’s his MySpace, his Last.FM Page, and where you can buy his EP “Nightmares and Daydreams” on CDBaby, and the same record via the iTunes Store.
I can’t afford to buy music, so maybe Jack will feel my pain and hook me up. Jack? Haha.
Comment I left on zaproot‘s episode 048 called Truth About The Pickens Plan …As of posting this, it hasn’t appeared on their site…
Here’s the Video I’m responding to:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70HFEHB6dag]
I love me a good conspiracy theory.
I’m interested to see the evidence of this water-grabbing thing spelled out as more than just a reference and passing the buck to one article in Tucson Weekly (which has no sources or links).
Are there other sources?
I’m not a Pickens supporter per se, but I am a Web2 fanatic who thinks the grassroots/marketing efforts of the Pickens Plan are amazing, both in design and success so far.
I’d like to see the evidence of this theory about the mid-western aquifer properly added to the Wikipedia article on the page for the pickens plan… Currently, it only mentions one source, which seems to be the same source as for this episode.
Here: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Opinion/Content?oid=oid:113228
Maybe I’m wrong, and I definitely have no reason to side with a rich-ass oil guy…
I just want my skepticism to be smart.
Dates, Bill Numbers, and other data would really help.
The Wikipedia article, which anyone can edit, has none of this. It simply mentions the existence of this theory, which to me really makes it seem like a stretch since something so important seems like it would have some wikipedia back-n-forth going on.
Where is the discussion? If the people of the US are blind to this alleged water-grab, can you really claim the position of moral high-ground while attempting to make [ad-supported] content out of the issue without lifting a finger to actually get the word out via the wikipedia [or any other medium with any kind of reach]?
You guys aren’t even popular enough to have a wikipedia article for yourselves, yet you claim to be delivering an important message. I know it probably took a few hours at least to edit all that green-screen stuff with the pretty host bouncing around.
Who’s “Green-Washing” who? Are you helping humanity? Are you participating in the cloud? Or are you just trying to sell a cute actress to us while capitalizing on our guilt by using the whole “green” thing?
This is social media, people. If it’s true, add it to the wikipedia with sources!
If it’s “true” let’s expose it properly! I can’t wait to hear back from you. BTW, I love Channel Frederator!!! —Andrew
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