Posts Tagged ‘self’
Serg from Antwerp
March 9, 2008
James King talks about SABAM
March 9, 2008
The hex of cultural funding
December 12, 2007In Europe most art is culturally funded in some way. Even commercial labels/publishers might be dependent on the income that they get via performance in culturally funded venues. Some small business possibly don’t provide live entertainment because they are unable to compete with the nonprofit venues. Culturally funded venues also could be seen to create conditions that encourage artists to join rights organizations, when possibly they shouldn’t. This means venues have the view that they have to pay the rights organizations for all use of content. Artists have little incentive not to join the rights organizations as media/venues/festivals (not myspace though) pay blanket licenses for the use of content. An artist (outside the US) not with a rights organization is able to license her or his content as they choose, however as the rights organizations issue blanket licenses to media for the use of content, commercial media almost always is going to choose well published content over that of “self published” content. An end to the blanket license system and an adaptation of a system similar to that of the US, would create a better flow of art. The problem seems to be that people from both sides of the political fence benefit from the system being the way it is. What organizations benefits when art is “self published” ? how to be punk when no-matter what way you look you have to fill in forms or give up rights for any exposure.
thoughts on free culture
November 19, 2007response to mail thread about how to get free-culture to work.
The idea of being able to make a living through music without having a live performance aspect to the art is not so common for DIY artists. Also consider if the act is solo or with a band. Artist is in Europe, US or developing/ transforming country. So many variables, no one size fits all.
Free music distributor www.Jamendo.com has 5000 Albums on site, from April to July Jamendo made 3000 Euros for artists through advertising revenue, that was split with artists according to how much content was used. This is less than a euro an album, consider the amount of time that goes into creating that content. The contributor to the site also gets a load of banners when they visit the network. The fan has the option of giving a donation, yet few contribute. This is good distribution for the artist/band yet with no live show to go with the performance what to do ?
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
tuesday off on tour
September 23, 2007the more i look at the net, the more i see how everything points to a central space. its kind of like a site is a town and people visit that town cause they want something. most towns are plastered with bill boards. with port holes to other towns. the thing is this. if you don’t put yourself on a bill board you end up without anyone knowing about your paradise. if you let people know about your paradise via way of bill boards your joining a process that aint so great. so the best sites on the web are sites that don’t have billboards. yet these sites tend to not be so visited. so everything has to be paid for, even peoples free time is a commodity it seems. people when they write their blogs can have an advert, so you write a blog as someone absorbs your thought and you get paid, the more that person gets paid the more bill boards they can buy. so if you have something really cool to say your going to get rich by saying that. so the more important your opinion the more wealth you have. is this such a good system ? so the most popular ideas are the best.
thoughts on the free world
so how is it possible to create something unless there is an economic incentive. linux is maybe an example of this. kind of like a system that is available to everyone at no cost. yet the people that build the system are most likely helped partly through some type of grant . so some basic incentives were maybe needed, yet i’m not sure about the evolution of this process. linux is getting used by some of the big organizations and a lot of regular software now runs on linux, so maybe the streets of the future net are not going to be plastered by bill boards. you can read up more on linux at this link. most linux users are men and not vegetarian.
in some countries they regulate the use of bill boards and adverts. looking out my window in Oslo i can’t see one bill board in site. i don’t even think the bus’s and taxi’s have mini bill boards on them. looking back at Prague, the last place i lived in. the eastern block. everywhere a billboard is it is. some peoples flat windows are covered by bill boards. the person living in the flat has no choice, cause they are renting. they can move somewhere else, that is market conditions in Prague. the version of the free world that we support. kind of like myspace and facebook, you can move to some network that is without bill-boards. yet hey where is the economic incentive for people to come to that space without bill-boards. so the cyber space for now is a festival of bill boards, we get so used to it that most most likely don’t think twice about what they are saying. yet every now and then something comes up. google have all your information and you use their great apps at no cost, up comes your next flight destination at a good price and you go with it. you just paid for another 300 bill boards. what to do ?
car thoughts
in the future we want buy new cars, we are most likely going to buy a software update that would re-configure the hardware. kind of like a box of mud that can change into a pot we can cook on then turn into a face mask to get all the smog out of our face. although we probably want go outside cause the pollution is going to be so bad or we’ll be busy trying to be fish (the world under water due to global warming). ok, so in the future we’ll just buy updates to make imperfections perfect. re-create the perfect world within our world, so we don’t have to deal with the real world. we want have a car, just think we are in a car and avoid real traffic. yet some are going to have to push the pedals to drive the machine for the/our pleasure. even if they are robots, eventually something is going to have to feel the effect. just like the cow someone eats has to be slaughtered, those building your updates may be living in the smog you don’t breath. to create/maintain your dream. maybe our software updates are going to be built by pigs with hands when they can no-longer build software updates we can eat them. at least the pigs would be doing something useful while they are growing up. quick lets build that farm. at least then the pigs can really take over the world.
sunday morning thoughts.
