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Lessig responds to ASCAP attack on Creative Commons

Harald Walker — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:28:45 +0000

Recently, Creative Commons, along with other groups, was attacked by ASCAP in a fundraising email campaign claiming that CC is working to undermine copyright. But Creative Commons licenses are copyright licenses – plain and simple. They are legal tools that creators can use to offer certain usage rights to the public, while reserving other rights. Without copyright, these tools don’t work.
Creative Commons founding board member Lawrence Lessig has now responded to this untrue attack in a column on the Huffington Post, challenging ASCAP president and chairman, Paul Williams, to a debate.

Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009 – “East meets West”

Harald Walker — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:10:24 +0000

[press release] From the 8th to the 11th of October 2009, Netaudio Berlin will be gathering the international netaudio community for a 4 day music and conference festival in Berlin, under the title “East meets West”. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain, we recall pictures of helping hands reaching out to pull people from both sides up on to the Berlin wall. The event will take place at Maria, a venue situated immediately on the former Berlin ‘death strip’ once di- viding the city and the world into eastern and western hemispheres. In recent years a netaudio landscape has emerged in the countries of Eastern Europe. Speakers, artists and netlabel managers from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from the USA are invited to ﬁ nd out more about the needs and possibilities, challenges and chances of netaudio under the various cultural frameworks and to discuss new opportunities for networking and collaboration across borders and cultures.

The musical focus lies on a selection of Berlin’ ﬁ nest electronic music, namely, House, Techno and Minimal. However, many artists from the ﬁ elds of Ambient, Noise, Dub, Drum’n’Bass, Pop, Triphop, Dubstep, Breakbeats, Drone, Hip Hop and Techdub will add to the varied musical program. Although the netaudio scene consists of artists mostly unknown to the broader public, many names have already earned international recognition. This is reﬂ ected in the lineup of the evening program, crowned by such illustrious ﬁ gures as Pheek, D. Diggler, Erich Lesovsky, Marc Schneider, Gold- will, Tanith, Stereoshape, SCSI-9, Disrupt, Holger Flinsch, Marko Fürstenberg, and the Kraftfuttermischwerk. With over 100 participating artists spread over 3 nights, the netaudio festival gives a comprehensive insight into the various musical genres and brings netaudio music to life for participants and visitors. The day program includes numer- ous workshops and discussions with top experts as well as a ﬁ lm program, showcases, a netaudio-(label) exhibition, and various contributions from other art forms.

The Berliner Crew has beneﬁ ted from their experience during the previous Berlin Festival in 2007 and from their involve- ment with international partners in London, Moscow, Barcelona and Bologna. In addition to their ambition to further develop the netaudio scene worldwide, the organizers also hope to strengthen the position of Berlin as a hub between East and West, by integrating various netlabels from all parts of Europe. The organizers are sending a signal of excla- mation to the netaudio community, especially in the countries of Eastern Europe.

More information: http://www.netaudioberlin.de
Lineup: http://www.netaudioberlin.de/artists/
Tickets: http://tickets.netaudioberlin.de
Logo and Online-Banner: http://www.netaudioberlin.de/media/

Back from Cologne Commons

Harald Walker — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:16:07 +0000

Last week I spent two days at the first Cologne Commons conference and festival. Cologne Commons was an intense experience with interesting discussions and great music. It was great to meet some netaudio artists and other people who run Netlabels themselves.

Highlights were the live performances of Entertainment For The Braindead and Comfort Fit on Friday. Between 3 and 4 am I played my DJ set with a mixture of electro, breakbeats, techno and house. Below you can find the playlist. The Cologne Commons crew did a great job in organizing this event, and I would like to thank them for inviting me.

#	Artist	Title	Label	Catalog No.
1	Dorothy’s Magic Bag	Female Voice	Candy Mind	candy027
2	Markus Masuhr	Some People Call Me Later	Subversive Media	sm001
3	Markus Masuhr	Novrosibirsk	Equaliteq	Eqq017
4	Docma	Sum Sum	Idealtechno	ideal017
5	Prosper Prowano	elektro star (kraken!)	Future-Komp	FK012
6	Patrick Diessner	What’s Next	Stadtgruen	stadt018
7	Retax Gorgon	Integrated Lifeforms	nonstopnonsense.netLab	nnnl.upd.01
8	Liquid Strange	Smeartest (extended)	Candy Mind	candy027
9	Stig Inge	Snuff	Musicartistry Recordings	MA029
10	finegrind & benson	Zimmer042.05 – reflex	Zimmer Records	zimmer042
11	Badtrans	Maysource	Gartenzwerg Records
12	Baymont Bross	Anthony Rother Is Playing At My House	Evil Records	EVIL-017
13	ZLIJAY	Who’s Got Da Beat	Oscilator	freeosc44
14	MdM	Come Back	Nu Logic	Nu-Logic012
15	Hannelore Klinke	Daftdiscorockpunk Technolectromalephonk (Sanomats Acid Kingz Remix)	Rest	rest025
16	Lé Housetear	Musique pour lé Futur	Auflegware	alw027
17	demir	fist of tequeneek	Pentagonik	pntg007
18	Benny Feenell	Manic Delusion (Club Mix)	FOEM	ElecYouth15
19	andrea p	feeling stolen	Inoquo	inoquo044
20	electoy	exodar	Symbiont-Music	sm015
21	Crookram	Hostile	Budabeats	bube002

Netaudio videos

Harald Walker — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:07:58 +0000

I recently got involved with video again and just released my second music video featuring the track ‘Ein Bild von Dir’ by Gleichschalter [broque018]. Using Creative Commons licensed music in a video turned out to be a bit more complicated than expected. According to a document published by Creative Commons, one can not use music under a No Derivative Works (ND) license. In case of my music videos I got permission, and for some other videos I used music with an Attribution (BY) or Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) license. Most netlabels featured here on Sonic Walker publish their work under a No Derivative Works (ND) license and since mp3 files usually don’t carry any license information, it is not easy to search for music by license type. A good place to find music which you can use and remix is Jamendo. On Jamendo one can search by artist, album, tags etc. in combination with the desired CC license (example).

Gleichschalter – Ein Bild von Dir from Harald Walker on Vimeo.

If you are interested in creating and sharing your own netaudio videos you can add them to the Netaudio Group on Vimeo.

First part of netlabel research report available

Harald Walker — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:49:13 +0000

In cooperation with Phlow Patryk Galuszka presents selected results of the first part of a research, which was conducted to learn more about netlabels. The research is a part of his postdoctoral project which deals with netaudio scene from perspectives of business studies and economic sociology. Patryk got in contact with 650 netlabels, send out 569 questionnaires and received 339 complete questionnaires during his research.

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