Another perfect example of why intellectual property law needs to be updated in order to be relevant in today’s new music ecosytem. Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, is scoring more than a million view with this collage/mashup of youtube amateurs musician videos. Copying ? derrivative ? def not. Wired magazine is running a great interview of Kutiman Here. Worth reading.

This one is one of the orginal sample used to create this:

Gambling Youtube no more ?

From Youtube’s blog:

Video view counts reflect the YouTube community’s interests and the grassroots popularity of videos. We periodically make changes that allow us to display consistent view counts and accurately reflect a “real” view based on video consumption, video streaming and spam filtering. Unfortunately, a few people still try to artificially manipulate their video’s view counts. Some people game third-party view counts as well. That can make things unfair for everyone.

Recently, we found spamming issues associated with the view counts on a small number of videos. The inflated view count number on these videos will be frozen until actual views catch up to the published, artificial, view count. Also, a few people have commented that their view counts are updating more slowly. Occasionally the speed with which views update changes — sometimes it’s faster and sometimes it’s slower. But we are always working to make sure that the final view count numbers are an accurate reflection of the community’s interest.

Michelle Schlachta
Community Manager
The YouTube Team

I just came back from Central America with 3000 cumbia mp3. just starting do dig into those but here we go for a little playlist of classics and modern cumbias. There is some pretty cool stuffs. make sure to check out “Ben Laden Cumbia” by Ossama :

Modern cumbia is mixing pretty much everything from euro dance to gypsy music and even indian music. copyright is so over in America Latina.

From Wikipedia

From Billboard.com

The assets of Death Row Records, said to include master recordings of Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, were auctioned yesterday (Jan. 15) for $18 million to Canadian development company WIDEawake Entertainment Group.

Because of the less-than-expected acquisition price, the only creditor likely to capture a return after lawyers and other Chapter 11 administrative fees are paid is the Internal Revenue Service.

That means other creditors, including unsecured ones like co-founder Lydia Harris, will be left out in the cold. Harris isn’t content with the verdict.

“This was all a scam from the beginning,” a disgruntled Harris tells Billboard. “Everyone wanted me to bring judgment down, and so I brought on the case. But now I’m not getting paid because I’m an unsecured creditor? Yet, administrators are getting paid and Suge [Knight]’s bills are still getting paid? If it wasn’t for me no one would be getting money. They made sure it happened this way because I was the biggest creditor. There must be some internal thing going on and I’m obviously not in on it.”

read more HERE

“dont remix my art” vs “go ahead remix it”

Every Kanye West Sample video

“the problem is not the music business, problem is the CD business” Chuck D. Pretty cool presentation from Ian Rodger (topspin)

Audio/video remixer widget !
Play with your keyboard to remix the orginal video. you can even record, share, and download your own remix right away. This is pretty hot: give it a try !

some good points in it. Everyone involved with music should have their fifth beatles digital member.

Thanx to Olivier, one of my co-worker from fairtilizer, i just watched this quite interesting documentary discussing the current state of copyright, piracy and free culture. Lots of good stuff in it.