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Music 2.0 Slideshow: A web native Music Industry
American University promulgates 'best practices' code for makers of online user-generated video
By Ray Beckerman
While the large content owners would like nothing better than to 'leave up to the courts', on a case-by-case basis, what is a 'fair use', it is not workable for creators, it is not fair to the public, and it is not consistent with the underlying principles of copyright law, for creators to have to live with that kind of uncertainty.
Which is why the Center for Social Media at American University, the same folks who brought you a 'Code of Best Practices for Fair Use' for documentary filmmakers, announced last year that they would be undertaking a project to develop a similar code for user-generated online content.
This month they have announced their Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video.
The code is available online and in *pdf.
Now let us hope this helps to put an end to the atmosphere of constant litigation and terror that the large content owners have created.
- Posted by rbeckerman posted at 2008-07-29 17:12
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8tracks - Online Mixtapes
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Rags Gupta
My friend and former colleague, David Porter, just announced 8tracks. It's the startup he's been working on for the past 2 years, and for which I'm an advisor.  Paul covered it a little while back.
8tracks is an easy way to share and discover new music by creating and listening to mixes. You can upload your own tracks to create your mix or choose from a library of tracks that the 8tracks community has uploaded. It's drag-and-drop easy. Once you've created your mix, you can publish it as a little flash widget anywhere you like. That's all there is to it. Here's a mix I just created that contains some of the music on heavy rotation in my ipod this summer.
Sign up for the beta using "rags" as an invite code and let me know what you think. Congrats to David and the rest of the team - it's great to the result of their hard work finally see the light of day. Â
- Posted by Rags Gupta posted at 2008-07-29 23:20
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