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 …

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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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  1. GoddakkAttack says:

    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.

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 …

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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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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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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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Remora, Sarah June, Jamie Barnes, Small Life Form, Martin Bisi, Just A Man, Vigilant

Did some more research for bloggers & reviewers today. Seeing various things in “best of the year” lists is helping me to find some new places.

I finished up a second draft for Vigilant & sent it to PB Kain …

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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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  1. GoddakkAttack says:

    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.

    • I probably wouldn’t understand it anyway because I don’t really play video games & I don’t feel a great need to have a phone that makes light saber noises when I swing it around. I don’t know. I might pay $1 for a set of vocal exercises, but I guess in reality that would just be buying an MP3? I don’t really know how technology works.

      • GoddakkAttack says:

        well i think that’s the problem..most android apps are basically hey let’s play pacman whereas there are a bunch more actual useful apps for the iphone. also your not being aware that the smartphone isn’t just for playing games may be part of your not understanding the appeal but i do think that most people that have them aren’t using them for much more than that anyways so there you go.

  2. Leanne says:

    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.

  3. Thanks Leanne. I must’ve been looking at one of the older laws in the copyright history. Sometimes hard to keep them straight….