'Old school' is in session
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True story. It is spring training, 2002. I am sitting in the Red Sox dugout interviewing Carlos Baerga, who is hoping to catch on with the Sox. I am wrapping up the session when someone approaches us and informs Mr. Baerga that he needs to conclude his business with me because the Red Sox are about ...
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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Classic soul makes a comeback. Look for it by its new name: pop, hip-hop or R&B.
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A modest, good-natured example of new-from-old appeared in the middle of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centerâs Sunday program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
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A LONG-awaited refurbishment to a play area in
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Hanging out with the band Vampire Weekend at its old stomping ground.
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No, brace for more of the same old song and dance from Gary Bettman and the NHL owners on hand for their meeting with the players&#39; association in Toronto.
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It was just like old days -- except  for the absence of booze and cigarettes -- as former Faces  members Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Ian McLagan reunited in a  rare on-stage performance during Stewart's concert at the  Hollywood Bowl on Monday.
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Somebody wants to be starting something with Michael Jackson.
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The old music industry is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
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Old rockers want a little respect nowadays. They yearn to be inducted into the Rock&#39;n&#39;Roll Hall of Fame. Some even think they can help sell presidential candidates.
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Tune into a classic rivalry in the same league as Russell and Chamberlain, or Itchy and Scratchy.
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From the throwback uniforms to past stars such as Willie Gault and Tee Martin sitting in the stands, Tennessee&#39;s football team went retro last night for its season opener.
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Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, By Phil Ramone
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For the first time in the world, an old mixed sound track will been re-recorded and digitally re-mastered for a Dolby 6.1 Mix. The entire restoration and colourisation of Mughal-E-Azam has been accomplished indigenously.
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Ready for a trip down memory lane, comrade? Insert your "commie quarter" and have a blast.
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Now shows can be recorded without anything physical to record them on. The same goes for music. The days of tape-cassette&#39;s are long-gone, but CDs could be on their way out, too.