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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Best TV of 2010, New Comic Writer, Chess, XO
Well, here it is the end of 2010. Just two more to go until the world ends.
Everyone else has been doing their end of year best of lists & I feel really awkward doing that since the records I …
Remora, Phone Reviewers, Wolverine, Thorn1, Web Work, Games, Tariffs
Got a final mix done & sent in the Remora track from yesterday in for the comp. We’ll see if it makes the cut & if the comp comes out (you never know these days).
Today’s installment of Silber mini-comics …
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Brian Eno Documentary, Remora, SAVAS, Thorn1, XO
So Azalia Snail sent me the link to this Brian Eno documentary “Another Green World” (named after my favorite Eno album). I’d tried to watch it back when it first came out; but though the BBC had it streaming, they …
Posted in comics, daily news, movies & television, music, video
Tagged Brian Eno, remora, SAVAS, Thorn1, xo
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Vigilant, XO, Remora, Irata, Electric Bird Noise
I got the layout done for Vigilant #2 & sent it off to PB Kain. I’m thinking about doing some kind of promotion or one shot special based on fan participation. Where people just send in photos of themselves wearing …
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Azalia Snail, Sarah June, Mini-Comics, Radio, Remora, Dreams
Okay, so I know I’ve been talking up Azalia Snail a lot. I haven’t made a Silber page for her yet, but here’s her Facebook. & here’s a video from her:
& while I’m mentioning videos, here’s one from …
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Lost Kisses, Brainwashed, QRD, xo, Dreams
I’ve been working a little towards a new stickfigure issue of Lost Kisses. It’s going to be about seizures & time travel. So autobiographical.
A bunch of the Silber releases from this year (along with probably any other release …
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Tagged Brainwashed, Dreams, Lost Kisses, QRD, xo
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Merry Christmas, Just A Man, The End of the World, Nostalgia Equals Distortion
Merry Christmas. Hope everyone is doing well.
I did some work on tracking down some places to promote the comics today. But to be honest I don’t know exactly where most of my day went.
I worked up a second …
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Tagged just a man, Merry Christmas, Nostalgia Equals Distortion, The End of the World
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Azalia Snail, Remora, Sarah June, Just A Man, Dreams
I did some research for some weird promo swag ideas for Azalia Snail. Necklaces with snails on them & things like that. Not 100% sure on things yet. Because Azalia pointed out that she’d rather have the gimmicky promo thing …
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Canada (C-32), Smartphones, Thorn1, Just A Man, SLF Video, Vigilant
I was reading up on this new copyright law before parliament in Canada that may be putting a tax on MP3 players to go in a fund for musicians (Bill C-32). They had a similar tax put on blank tapes …
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Tagged c-32, canada, copyright, just a man, Small Life Form, smartphones, Thorn1, Video, vigilant
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if you ever took a look at he android app market and then compared to the iphone one. this could answer that question of marketshare.
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The term of copyright in Canada is NOT 50 years from creation. Rather, it is 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the author dies (see section 6 of the Canadian Copyright Act). This is essentially life plus 50 years. So Neil Young need not worry.
doesn’t that already exist:
THE AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT OF 1992:
The AHRA provides that the importer, manufacturer, or distributor of any digital audio recording device or digital audio recording media must file quarterly statements and pay, with those filings, royalties on each recorder or piece of media distributed in the United States. The royalty is 2 percent of the manufacturer’s selling price for recorders and 3 percent of the manufacturer’s selling price for recordable media. The royalty minimum for recorders is one dollar and the maximum is eight dollars, although in 1998, interested parties (such as musicians and music publishers) may request an increase in the royalty maximum under certain conditions. There are no minimum or maximum royalties for recording media.
Two-thirds of the royalties go into the Sound Recording Fund and are distributed from that fund to the American Federation of Musicians (2-5Ú8 percent), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (1-3Ú8 percent); 40 percent of the remaining royalties go to featured recording artists and 60 percent are distributed to music publishers.
The remaining third of the royalties are allocated to the Musical Works Fund and are distributed evenly between music publishers and songwriters. The percentages of distribution within each group of beneficiaries is determined by the groups themselves.
Here’s the thing with that (from Wiki):
Blank music CDs and recorders
17 U.S.C. § 1008 bars copyright infringement action and 17 U.S.C. § 1003 provides for a royalty of 3% of the initial transfer price. The royalty rate in 17 U.S.C. § 1004 was established by the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998. This only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use; they do not apply to blank computer CDs, even though they can be (and often are) used to record or “burn” music from the computer to CD. A similar royalty applies to stand-alone CD recorders, but not to CD burners used with computers.
Thanks to a precedent established in a 1998 lawsuit involving the Rio PMP300 player, MP3 players are deemed “computer peripherals” and are not subject to a royalty of this type in the U.S.