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 Thursday, April 25, 2002
started 4/25/2002; 7:19:54 AM - last post 4/25/2002; 6:12:59 PM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, April 25, 2002 
4/25/2002; 11:19:54 AM (reads: 3386, responses: 2)
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Setting new records for "fucking" in a comic strip 
The Newest Old Thing
| | Eric Olsen just put up New Media In the Old, Part 3: Respect and Backlash at Tres Producers. Appreciating all the links, I keep thinking, do links beat the living shit out of footnotes, or what? For both the writer (who knows inks might be followed) and for the reader (who knows they can be followed, at least until rot sets in). Anyway, good stuff. And more on the way — "Next: Part 4 - Sullivan and the Blogger's Manifesto." |
| | By the way: I find myself, for reasons of Google, trying to name names and name blogs (if they're different) when I'm giving credit and making links and shit like that. A fuller-credit-where-due kind of thing. |
Fortunately, protecting dead corrupt industries isn't a Homeland Security priority
Craig's back
The lazy reporter's approach to research
| | I got pointed at this today. It's from 1996, but very much in the mood of What's Happening Now. It's about how ASCAP wants summer camps to pay for singing campfire songs: |
| | Starting this summer, the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers has informed camps nationwide that they must pay license fees to use any of the four million copyrighted songs written or published by Ascap's 68,000 members. Those who sing or play but don't pay, Ascap warns, may be violating the law. |
| | Like restaurants, hotels, bars, stores and clubs, which already pay fees to use copyrighted music, camps -- including non-profit ones such as those run by the Girl Scouts -- are being told to ante up. The demand covers not only recorded music but also songs around the campfire. |
| | "They buy paper, twine and glue for their crafts -- they can pay for the music, too," says John Lo Frumento, Ascap's chief operating officer. If offenders keep singing without paying, he says, "we will sue them if necessary." |
| | Anybody know what's happened since then? |
Key word: nonstate
| | What's creepy isn't the government vs. government story, which takes up much of the piece, and is familiar stuff. It's this: |
| | The CIA assessment said China's "nonstate hacking community continues to pose the most immediate threat to U.S. computer networks." |
| | It went on to warn that hackers in China "appear to be organizing for cyber-attacks again this spring, particularly during student breaks early next month and around the anniversary of the EP-3 [surveillance plane] incident." |
| | The anniversary of the EP-3 collision passed uneventfully this month. But private security groups say they too have picked up on possible Chinese-based attacks in coming weeks--tied to the plane episode as well as China's national youth day on May 4 and the May 8 anniversary of the U.S.'s accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999. |
| | One young American woman I know spends most of her time in China., mostly at a university. She says that while students there are quite friendly toward Americans, there is little if any doubting of Chinese government claims that the bombing in Belgrade was intentional, and that the EP-3 incident can only be understood as U.S. aggression. |
| | She also said it doesn't help that the Internet is still not widely used, and is highly censored on many of the computers where it is available. |
| | I'm not worried, but I am a bit creeped out. Even though Dan and David are over there right now, blogging away. |
| | Not speakng of which, check out the Small Pieces Gang Blog. It's a good blog around a great book. (And I'm not just flogrolling for a friend here. Dr. Weinberger, I believe, understands the Web far more deeply than anybody else who's written books about it. Including your truly.) |
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jeneane - Re: Thursday, April 25, 2002
4/25/2002; 12:47:57 PM (reads: 389, responses: 0)
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Call me wacked (it's okay, really), but I agree with ASCAP's (www.ascap.com) stand on the girl scouts needing to pay license fees. They are no different from any other club, group, or venue, and the truth is that publishing is essential to composer/musicians getting paid within a business that is structured to prevent just that.
If you're smart, and you don't sign away your publishing, it is in essence your 401K, your retirement, something to leave to your family, a source of ongoing revenue (in royalties) in an industry that is uniquely unpredictable (except for the few at the top and those in power).
An ASCAP wife, I support the organization's commitment to collecting the fees, even if it's from those cute little girls that sell the cookies--ooops, I mean the men in charge.
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CG Welch - Re: ASCAP on Thursday, April 25, 2002
4/25/2002; 10:12:59 PM (reads: 454, responses: 0)
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Here's a better cover of the ASCAP two-step:
ASCAP Changes Its Tune; Never Intended to Collect Fees for Scouts' Campfire Songs, Group Says
"Reeling from the worst public relations disaster since Dan Quayle misspelled "potato," the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) now says that "ASCAP has never sought nor was it ever its intention" to make Girl Scouts pay to sing around a campfire. Other campers? Well, maybe."
In '97 we had the ASCAP/ACA Happy Together Tour:
"Under the five-year agreement, ACA will pay ASCAP one dollar per camp per year for all ASCAP licensed music. Currently, ACA represents more than 2,200 summer camps nationwide."
Finally, in Steve Zeitlin's op-ed piece for the New York Times you can dance to the "Pete Said it Better than I Could Rag":
"The interests of songwriters and screenwriters and the corporations they work for have to be balanced against the importance of our collective folk culture. As Mr. Seeger put it from his home in Beacon, N.Y., "The grandchildren should be able to find some other way to make a living, even if their grandfather did write 'How Much Is That Doggie in the Window.'"
Excuse me, I have to run out and mail my check to ASCAP. My best friend had a birthday party last week and the grandchildren of those fine ladies from Louisville need their due...
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