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make it on your own jamison young
March 28, 2008is it worth standing in front of a bulldozer to save a tree?
March 5, 2008
Creative Commons are asking people for feedback on policy
CC/ iCommons is looking (from a distance) to be moving towards the corporations rather than the artist. Policy of iCommons is directed to those who create pools of content rather than users. The problem might be that most of the funds CC/iCommons get don’t come via individuals yet from larger corporations/organizations. CC has business people on the board. yet these people look at content from a business perspective not from that of an artist. From a far out view it looks like the same thing is going on a different plate.
who is going to decide what a non-commercial use is. The corporations or the people? The more people that use CC licenses the more important the organization is.
Contracts for artists & physical spaces.
December 16, 2007Recently i was in Belgium, home of rights organization SABAM. It seems that the cost for use of music content is going up via the rights organizations, yet the interest in self published content is going down.
Venues funded by the government are often promoting published and label acts, while self published artists and bands are being asked to perform no cost. This funding combined with a strict regulation for use of music content by the rights organizations, make things not so easy for the self publishing artist. What to do?
The contract ideas bellow might give venues an incentive to play music from self publishing bands and artists that are in contact with that physical space.
1)-Contract that the artist signs to tell the venue that the artist is not with rights organization and shall perform only original content at the venue.
2)-Contract that the artist signs that allows the venue to use the recorded music of that artist in that venue free of charge. It would be up to the artist to let the venue know if in the future the artist joined a rights organization.
Myspace and youtube do not pay for use of the artists or bands content, yet venues do. Venues are not beaming soap commercials above performers heads during the show.
Contracts for artists & physical spaces.
December 14, 2007Recently i was in Belgium, home of rights organization SABAM. I spoke to both venue owners/promoters and artists about SABAM. It seems that the cost for use of musical content is going up (via the rights organizations), yet interest in quality “self published” content via commercial and non-commercial media streams is going down.
Culturally funded venues/festival/theaters in Europe are promoting published and label acts mostly. Self Published acts are often asked by culturally funded spaces to perform at no cost. This bureaucracy of cultural funding combined with a strict regulation of music rights, makes it mostly impossible for “self published” artists to get exposure in Europe. Cultural funding is creating conditions that often ensure “self published” artists join rights organizations when possibly they don’t have to. What to do ?
Could Creative Commons create contracts that help “self published” artists and venues/spaces? The two contract ideas bellow might give venues an incentive to play music from bands/artists that were in direct contact with that space. It could also give physical spaces an incentive to invite bands to tour when they created new music.
1)-Contract that the artist signs to tell the venue that the artist is not with rights organization and shall perform only original content (that the artist her or himself created) at the venue on that particular night.
2)-Contract that the artist signs that allows the venue to use the recorded music of that artist in venue free of charge. It would be the obligation of the artist to let the venue know if in the future the artist joins a rights organization. The rights organizations might in the future provide a list of artist’s that are registered with a rights organization(s)
Myspace & youtube do not pay for use of the artists or bands content, yet venues & spaces mostly are (even when the artist is not with a rights organization). Venues mostly are not beaming soap commercials above performers heads as they perform their tunes. Physical spaces might welcome the opportunity to be able to collect works that the venue could use free of charge. Many artists would give their content freely to a venue that would give them the opportunity of a paid performance combined with regular exposure in that space.
iarts launched
October 26, 2007Solutions to problems around us can be found by sharing and communicating ideas.
Reform APRA. Getting music artists in Australia to put pressure on APRA (collection society) to create a one member one vote system. Currently voting rights are structured so that for every 500 dollars that an artist or publisher collects, the artist or publisher gets one extra vote. With new technologies it makes sense to have equal voting rights for all members. Consider that the conditions that the board of APRA create, effect the way that members and non members deal with commercial and non-commercial spaces . APRA members are not able to use a creative commons license and remain within the terms of the agreement that the board of APRA maintain. Websitemyspace
Hungry Artists Feed Hungry People. Artists giving up commercial rights for the use of their content to a charity of choice. HAFHPmyspace icommonsOpenbusiness
Artist Press Kit. Creating a press kit (media station) for artists, where the media comes to the artist rather than the artist going to the media. openbusinessicommons
Create Incentives For Artists to be Artists. Create an organization that would collect
and distribute works that would be used in commercial streams.
Encourage artists to license works allowing commercial use. Create
incentives for artists. icommons
Titanic Radio. Why
not bring Wiki, Creative Commons, Public Domain content together and
make it available for broadcast through a wireless network to a device
with unlimited channels ?
Decentralized “broadcasting” network.website icommons
Explain creative commons licenses to Artists. The objective of this project is to give
balanced advice to artists on the advantages, disadvantages, risks and
rewards that their use of Creative Commons licenses may involve. Icommonswikifacebook
any feedback is much appreciated. jam@iarts.CC
