18 June 2013

157 – When is a song like a collage

Recorded 08 March 2011 I was reading the Techdirt article ‘Derivative Artwork Inspiring Derivative Artwork — But Will The Lawyers Ruin It?‘ About the work of Girl Talk and the surrounding copyright issues of mashups and their use of sampled music. Funny thing is, I didn’t find the article itself that compelling, but the analogy used comparing mashups [...]

Performance Rights Act – my two cents on HR 848

The Performance Rights Act is up for a vote this week. Speaking as a performer, the premise of this Act is long overdue, that performers deserve to be paid for their work  every time their performance is played on air by terrestrial radio. But from what I’ve seen and heard, I have questions that the [...]

084 – Goodbye 2008

Recorded 30 December 2008 The end of the year is here and on With A Voice Like This I took a bit of a look back at various stages among them were: 4-AM Wrap up of the last Christmas gig of the year Quick results from the Oak Park  gigs News You Can Use Started [...]

052 – Can I Get A Little Help Here?

This Episode of With A Voice Like This: Hey, I’m not too proud to ask for help. I’m a little stymied trying to help the rest of 4-AM understand what the Internet can do for the group. They seem to see a website as mainly a virtual brochure for the group. I know it’s much [...]

049 – Is This the Rights Thing to Do? Part 3

Originally this episode was to feature an ASCAP representative, but the timing didn’t quite work out for this show. so the discussion turned to an overview what issues were facing on the Internet with music and content in general. Topics discussed are: ASCAP’s take with the Songwriter’s Bill of Rights using rickrolling as an example. [...]