The Songwriters Association of Canada is “calling for the creation of the Right to Equitable Remuneration for Music File Sharing, which would make it legal to share music on peer-to-peer networks in exchange for the monthly fee. The fee – amounting to an estimated $500 million to $900 million annually in Canada – would be administered by a collective of artists, songwriters, music publishers and record labels.”
Tag: 02.20.08
Fisk University Fights In Court To Keep Famed Art Collection
After several unsuccessful attempts to sell part of its Alfred Stieglitz Collection of modern art, Fisk University is now fighting in Davidson County Chancery Court to maintain possession of this famed collection of 101 artworks, donated to the school by painter Georgia O’Keeffe in 1949.
La Scala Tries Out Opera In Movie Theatres
“The market for big-screen opera may be new, but it is also finite. The world’s major opera houses would be well advised to operate a clash system if they want to avoid choking the new big-screen medium in its infancy.”
Next Up: Video Games Controled By Your Brain
“Improvements in brain-computer interfaces will make the type of device previously confined to psychiatric laboratories available to the general public as some kind of entertainment. According to the developers, the first products should be in stores by the end of this year.”
Free Theatre – Struggling For Respect
There is a long tradition of people working outside theatre buildings and producing theatre not based in a literary tradition. Whether it’s Art or not depends on whether it’s done well.
Our Museums Have Been Abandoned To The Kids
“Our galleries and museums have been turned into playgrounds, with activity sheets and treasure trails, interactive video games and coloured signs that tell you about the exhibits in a few simple sentences, but nothing that an educated adult would not already know.”
Is Pop Music Socially Dangerous?
“There is little to demonstrate that social music causes social problems and much to suggest that violence in music is simply a truthful reflection of existing urban tensions. It needs to be heard and understood rather than censored and restricted.”
The Best Dance On YouTube?
Lisa Jo Sagolla compiles a list…
Proposal: Make Peer-To-Peer Legal, For A Price
“The Songwriters Association of Canada [is proposing] a $5 monthly fee on subscribers’ Internet bills that would make it legal to download music and hopefully save the failing music industry… The fee – amounting to an estimated $500 million to $900 million annually in Canada – would be administered by a collective of artists, songwriters, music publishers and record labels.”
Strange Bedfellows
If the New York gossip is to be believed, “Passing Strange” could be the musical that drags Broadway kicking and screaming into the 21st century. But despite its creators being decidedly outside-the-box figures, the show is being produced by Broadway lions not known for their embrace of change. So, how’s that relationship working out for everyone?