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On the Iran story - thought this info might help some folk to help out.
There's a link to Windows instructions also.
If it breaks everything - please don't have at me - merely passing what looks to be good work.
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Via the nzoss mailing list:
I'll have a little Elvis with that please.
The bid by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia, which represents more than 750 record companies, follows a decision by the Copyright Tribunal to approve an increase of 15 times the music costs for the nightclub industry, which was recently endorsed by the Federal Court of Australia.
The Australasian Performing Right Association, which collects licensing fees on behalf of composers and artists, has launched a separate action for a tenfold increase in the fees paid by nightclubs for recorded music.
Buoyed by the nightclub ruling, the PPCA is now targeting eateries. It wants to increase licensing fees in a 120-seat restaurant to $19,344 a year — up from $125. Small cafes would be slugged with a 4729 per cent yearly increase from $124 to $5860.
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Mr Healey said illegal internet downloads were robbing the music industry of its main income source — CD sales — and the PPCA was looking for other ways to make money for record companies.
PPCA chief executive Stephen Peach said recorded music attracted patrons to venues and was significantly undervalued. "The rates we have historically charged are barely nominal and we are looking to establish a fair return. The cafe owner just has to ask if the music is worth it, and if it isn't they don't have to play it," he said.
Health-centre operators are also bracing for a sharp increase in the cost of music for exercise classes, with the Copyright Tribunal expected to make a decision next month. The PPCA has asked for an increase of 400 times the cost for music played in gyms, from 96 cents a class to $4.54 a month for every member.
Fitness Australia chief Lauretta Stace said the proposed increase would add about $5 to a monthly gym membership. "The PPCA wants a levy on each member, but when you go into a gym most people are listening to an iPod."
EATERIES
Mid-sized restaurant (120 seats): from $125 to $19,344 a year.
Small restaurant (50 seats): from $84 to $16,016.
Cafe (50 seats): from $62 to $10,010.
Smaller cafe (30 seats): from $124 to $5864 a year.
Gyms: Up from 96 cents a class capped at $2600 a year to $4.54 per member a month.
Nightclubs: The Copyright Tribunal has approved a rise of 7 cents a person to $1.05 based on venue capacity.
Music costs at bars, hairdressers and shops to be reveiwed by PPCA.You have to wonder if they'll follow suit here - and if there's a 15% surcharge on public holidays.
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Can I just stick my head in and say thanks to sacha for linking to the EFF work, and the Doctorow link. That's back a few pages now - but thanks.
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With apologies and hat-tips to Naly D - as that link's via the dropkicks.
It did make me smile a lot.
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And to add to all that Naly said about Masaga.... may I present this as evidence for the prosecution.
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Big congratulations Paul - it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
My daughter is 12 weeks old - our first - and I'm filled with wonder and hope every time I look at her. I get what everyone says about new babies now. It's brilliant.
Second time around is easy as they say. ;-)
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Just wanted to say thanks Russell, for these clips, particularly the newsmash - am about to start a 4 week unit with my class on TV news production - culminating in a day down at ONTV here in Wellington.
It's a solid unit put out by the ONTV folk - lots of integrated learning - writing, editing, visual art, teamwork, technical aspects.
In light of the copyright discussion, can I ask permission to use this in my class?
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Rob, robbery and sacha - thank you for the responses. I must admit, I was initially more bemused than anything else by the MPAA clip, and threw it into the mix more as an oddity. Your questions of me then set me to thinking about specifics in my job - and it was a useful bit of thinking and reflecting for me over the weekend.
As the teacher responsible for the ICT curriculum at my school, I'm nominally responsible for keeping abreast of these issues - but my chosen digital challenge this term is to teach myself OS X server, and install and start trialling Moodle for our school intranet/LMS.
Sacha - thanks for the heads up on the "fair use" terms. I've taken to reading some of the details on http://www.copyright.co.nz - and some of that there is a challenge. more to chew on I guess. Things like this:
Do schools have to have a licence to provide copies of material from published works to students?
The Copyright Act 1994 limits the amount certain educational institutions can copy for students to encourage copyright licensing. Certain educational institutions are permitted to make multiple copies of up to 3% or 3 pages of a work for students for educational purposes. This copying may not exceed 50% of a work which means that if the whole work is being copied within the 3 page limit (for example a poem, short story or article from a periodical), then copying must be limited to 50% of the work.
I wonder if that means I'm back to only copying half of Rudyard Kiplings "If" for my classroom handouts?
In regards to the curriculum, there's nothing specifically in it about intellectual property, AFAIK. But you can have a look here:
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/
You could build a series of lessons/unit plan based around the social sciences or technology objectives - particularly with regard to the Key Competencies of 'Thinking' and 'Participating and Contributing'. Maybe the CFF people could do that, as a counterpoint to the NZFACT view - as I've said the quality of the arguments is pretty unsophisticated at present - and I think both sides are misunderstood.
robbery - there's often a massive surplus of materials and purchased content in primary schools filling shelves and is rarely used. The much maligned "Dog Box" arrived a couple of weeks ago, and has been cataloged and put on a shelf. woohoo! A lot of analog ICT resources are posters or instruction books that show step-by-step methods of instruction. Not something I'm keen on investing in.
The web has a wealth of resources, much of it legally available - either via creative commons or freely/opensource. Some of it is just pdf versions of worksheets, but some of it is challenging and powerful. One of the new skills that teachers need, as I said upthread, is to sift through the masses of data available - and work to integrate the good stuff into their lessons. It's a tough ask, with a large percentage of our teachers not digitally savvy, with laptops and the vagaries of Windows networking - let alone digital/DRM content issues.
All that said - there's some amazing work being done by primary and secondary schools around NZ - and groups like Derek Wenmoth's CORE-ed offer up some fantastic support for education.
For what it's worth - the new Anne Tolley-approved National Standards arrived today - in draft format, so it might be all change again.
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I agree the uncertainty is unsettling. But surely you're not really thinking you can't read aloud to students?
Definitely not - sorry - should have added a <sarcasm> tag to that bit - my point being, I'm not sure where or why the copyright claim is being applied to the piece of video - what part of the content is being claimed. There's nothing to tell you - so you kind of have to make assumptions.
As you said Rob - it's the not knowing what the legislation requires that's onerous. And if the only and easiest way to avoid the consequences of legislation would be to not use digital media - that would be a sad day.
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I went back to check a youtube video I had used in my class last year - to introduce Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" - it screened on BBC - was read by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. The link I had is now removed, due to a copyright claim by IMG Media
http://www.youtube.com/v/jDC_S4zTGyY
There are other links with the same content - I wonder how long I can rely on them to be there.
I would argue that using that video clip is fair use - it has a purpose, in relation to the lesson I was teaching. It's 2 minutes, 7 seconds long. It's not an entire broadcast. Are IMG Media claiming the copyright to Rudyard Kipling's content? Or video footage of Federer and Nadal? Or to the audio recording of Federer and Nadal?
If I use a DV camera to record the clip, or do a screen capture, am I still breaking copyright? What would the MPAA say?
Can I read Kipling's poem "If" out loud? In a Swiss or Spanish accent?
I'm confused.