{"id":457,"date":"2009-07-22T14:18:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T14:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-05-28T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:02:43","slug":"highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2009\/07\/highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Artist&#039;s Own YouTube Uploads Deleted To Protect Copyright<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Calvin Harris <a title=\"Calvin Harris (calvinharris) on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinharris\">tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Youtube just removed MY Fake Blood and High Contrast remixes of Ready For The Weekend due to a copyright claim from Sony Music. What?! RAGE<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to a world where the record companies owning copyrights to music (which they shouldn&#039;t) forcibly take down music <i>which was put up by the artist himself<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose when I think about it, artists are sub-contractors to the record companies. It&#039;s not as if they pay for the studio time, the video production etc etc. Most don&#039;t even write the songs! And as a software contractor you wouldn&#039;t expect to hold the right to distribute the entire work to which you contributed only a part.<\/p>\n<p>Still though it seems wrong as the label contracts are rather harsh, and if you want the funding\/publicity\/airtime, you don&#039;t really have a choice but to sign one.<\/p>\n<p><i>Disclaimer:<\/i> I do not tweet. This is my first blog post referencing Twitter and I am sorry! Someone linked me to this story.<\/p>\n<p><b>Police Try The RIAA Method<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In other news, Sussex cops have tried to <a title=\"Sussex cops try to suppress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright - Boing Boing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/07\/21\/sussex-cops-try-to-s.html\">suppress the publication of damning traffic-cam photos<\/a> by claiming copyright.<\/p>\n<p>As Cory Doctorow puts it, &#034;Copyright is meant to protect creativity; I&#039;m not sure who the aggrieved artist is meant to be here. Is there some tortured constable who spent hours on a ladder getting the composition of the camera&#039;s shots just right?&#034;.<\/p>\n<p>There&#039;s a theory that police are trying to keep quiet the fact a time-distance calculation can be performed on the images to check the vehicle&#039;s speed against the radar reading. A difference of more than ten percent between the two figures renders the machine&#039;s speed estimate &#034;unreliable&#034; under UK guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two short stories on copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[47,46,13,45,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}