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Proposed changes in UK copyright law

A 100-page consultation document “Taking Forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Second Stage Consultation on Copyright Exceptions” has just been published by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO). Based upon the first stage consultation launched in January 2008 of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property (2006), it summarises responses and gives recommendations to a series of proposals to change legislation covering copyright exceptions under five headings: (a) educat… Continue

Added by Richard Ranft on December 13, 2009 at 8:53pm — 1 Comment

http://www.playgroundgames.org/

It would be great to work with your great archives to collect and share the multitude of different ways people play with the http://www.playgroundgames.org/ production to build on the massive success of productions such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specialreports/saveoursounds/index.shtml please contact @whymandesign for more details.… Continue

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BBC and British Library join forces to broaden access to their archives

Significant partnership to integrate access to material is welcome news for researchers The BBC and British Library will today sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in an innovative approach to make the content and assets of both organisations more widely available. Managed by a joint steering committee, the MOU seeks to develop new ways of integrating access to nearly a million hours of BBC TV and radio content and over 150 million British Library items - significantly increasing access t… Continue

Added by Richard Ranft on December 11, 2009 at 11:18am — 1 Comment

ARe the Norwegians the role model?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/11/bbc-british-library-digital-archives Continue

Added by Lars Gaustad on December 11, 2009 at 8:27am — 1 Comment

indexing recordings

As libraries are being indexed, it is going to be interesting to see how sound recordings are used in research. One group is using Multivariate Testing to see the accessibility of such recordings. As libraries move this data to Cloud Hosting, making is accessible to everyone, it seems that using such archives w… Continue

Added by Cindy Fallsen on December 9, 2009 at 7:12pm — 1 Comment

Call for papers: Audio Engineering Society 128th Convention, 2010

London, UK Dates: 2010 May 22 - May 25 (**Note revised dates) www.aes.org/events/128 The AES 128th Convention Committee invites submission of technical papers for presentation at the 2010 May 20 to 23 meeting in London. By 2009 December 18, a proposed title, 60- to 120-word abstract, and 500- to 750-word précis of the paper must be submitted electronically to the AES 128th proposal submission site at… Continue

Added by Richard Ranft on December 2, 2009 at 5:49pm — No Comments

Bloggers rescuing rare audio

Just stumbled across this rare lecture from the 1970s given at John Hopkins by Marshall McLuhan, picked up by David Weinberger's Joho from Star Larvae where it was blogged over a year ago. Continue

Added by Christopher Lee Clark on November 27, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

UK Radioplayer

The BBC issued this press release today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/11_november/19/radio.shtml BBC and commercial radio unveil industry-wide Radioplayer The BBC and commercial radio today unveiled a new online radio player that aims to offer the output of every licensed UK radio station and to let users search this cont… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 19, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

RSSR's first year

I set up this network on Ning just over a year ago with a view to promoting the topics that were to be discussed at the Unlocking Audio 2 conference in London last March. The network grew quite swiftly ahead of the conference and has continued to flourish. As 'manager' of the site I have access to some basic facts and figures about RSSR so you may be surprised to learn that around 27 people join every month, or just under one every day, which has brought the membership total to 334. 4 specialist… Continue

Added by Christopher Lee Clark on November 18, 2009 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

remote streaming

I am really enjoying services like Pandora. Innovations like 3G on cells, and IP PBX are changing the landscape of music consumption. Satellite Internet is also making such consumption possible in remote areas. What are your feelings of how long it will take for services like Pandora a… Continue

Added by Cindy Fallsen on November 16, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Is piracy really killing the music industry?

So asks The Times Labs blog, and comes up with the graphic above, and this argument below: Do mus… Continue

Added by Luke McKernan on November 13, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

streaming music and new business models

"Ownership is for pussies", argues music analyst Bob Lefsetz in an exclamation-ridden blog about music industry marketing and distribution. "You can’t get people to pay first, that’s twentieth century thinking. You give them a taste now, and then get them to pay. Which is why you can listen to so much for free online already. If you’re not making your material available to be listened to online for free, at least in a streaming format, you’re managing your career with your arm behind your back.… Continue

Added by Richard Ranft on November 9, 2009 at 12:18pm — No Comments

MP3 RIP?

Following the fate of records and tapes, could MP3 also be on the way out? This is the first of five predictions by Carl Franzen writing in the AtlanticWire based on the latest views of different commentators about new directions underway for listening to recordings of music: * Eliot van Buskirk (Wired) on Lala * Ian Paul (PC World) and John Healey (LA Times) on Goo… Continue

Added by Christopher Lee Clark on November 3, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

WWI poetry in Second Life

Virtual trenches immerse students in First World War poetry. With Armistice Day fast approaching a JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) project team has taken an unusual approach to ensuring that people continue to learn about the First World War. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University have collaborated on an exciting new venture in the 3D virtual world Second Life to simulate areas of the Western Front 1914-18. The team believ… Continue

Added by Richard Ranft on November 2, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Free event at City University London, 18 November 2009

Sound Ecologies: Listening in the City http://www.furtherfield.org/soundecologies.php Continue

Added by S. Cleary on October 30, 2009 at 1:34pm — No Comments

US Google Music search launched

music search is now integrated into Google's main search page, so that a search for a song or album title, artist name or even lyrics includes in the search results links to audio previews of those songs provided by MySpace or Lala, plus links to 3rd party recommendation sites such as Rhapsody and last.fm.

Currently this service, called OneBox music service, is being rolled out in the USA and is being seen by some commentators as the start of a challenge to free streaming serv… Continue

Added by Richard Ranft on October 30, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Recording of Adrian Willaert's "Musica Nova" by Singer Pur

Readers may be interested in the recent publication of a double disc by the German vocal ensemble Singer Pur (see www.singerpur.de) with the label Oehms Classics (OC 814 - see http://www.oehmsclassics.de/cd.php?formatid=403), which contains the first recording of all madrigals from Adrian Willaert's monumental collection Musica Nova (Venice, 1559). This project celebrates the 450 anniversary of th… Continue

Added by Janet Topp Fargion on October 21, 2009 at 3:31pm — No Comments

The resistance industry

Nate Anderson (Ars Technica) surveys the objections to innovative technologies across a century or more. Reference is made to William Patry's new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, in which he wrote, "I cannot think of a single significant inno… Continue

Added by Christopher Lee Clark on October 15, 2009 at 10:47am — No Comments

New Library of Congress Web presentation: Coptic Chant

A new Web site is now available on the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Web site at the Library of Congress: Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant & Hymnody, The Ragheb Moftah Collection. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/coptic/coptic-home.html With its roots in Ancient Egyptian music, Coptic Christian chant is one of the oldest liturgical genres still performed today. Drawing on the Ragheb Moftah Collection, this presentation explores some of the earliest music transcriptions by explorers, m… Continue

Added by Janet Topp Fargion on October 15, 2009 at 10:34am — No Comments

Join me on face book, and view my Acoustic Resonance and PsychoCYMATIC Research album

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Added by TeddsAdventure on October 14, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

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