Sensing an inefficiency in the market, an Israeli start-up hopes to do for music licensing what eBay did for just about everything else, by creating a database-driven environment to introduce recording artists to advertisers, videogame developers, filmmakers and hobbyists that cuts through the licensing world's red tape. Ostensibly, it should now be possible for anyone who owns music to license it for a profit -- and for anyone who needs legally licensed music for a video project to get it without a lot of hassle.

"I like to think that we reinvented the model," YouLicense CEO Maor Ezer. "There's no barrier. I don't tell any indie artist, 'you're not welcome.' Everybody can sign in -- that's the big, big, big difference (between us and) all the other companies out there... on the other side, we have buyers from TV, film, videogames and ads coming in and doing business directly with the content owners."

Since there's no statutory licensing rate for synchronization rights (using music with a video), each of these deals must be negotiated individually. Since that clearly presents challenges on both sides of the licensing equation, there's plenty of room for YouLicense to increase efficiency in the market, the same way eBay did for used goods.

Artists and other copyright holders can offer their music on YouLicense for free, paying only a 9 percent commission fee when their stuff gets license --  similar to how its competitor PumpAudio does things. Or, using a new model recently implemented on the site, they can pay a flat fee of $30 (individuals) or $60 (organizations) to offer an unlimited amount of music through the service in a six month period, without paying any commissions.

Potential licensees search for suitable music using a number of parameters (above right) or submit requests for specific types of music before it is recorded in the Opportunities section (below right). If they find something that works, they make an offer describing what they want to do with the song and how much they're willing to pay. The owner of the song (sound recording and publishing rights) gets an email alert with a link to the offer and can negotiate, accept or decline it directly through the site.

Once both sides agree on a price, the licensing fee transfers via PayPal and YouLicense automatically generates an agreement including the specific terms of the deal, saving both sides significant legal expense. The licensee gets a download link and voila -- the transaction is complete. All licenses are non-exclusive, meaning that the artist loses no rights when someone licenses their song, beat or ringtone.

Ezer and company, who received $1 million in funding in August, initially went after production houses as potential customers. But, he says, they had limited success with that strategy and soon discovered that video producers from the long tail were also interested in licensing music for their projects. Ultimately, this generated interest from larger music licensors.

"Suddenly, out of word of mouth, a lot of these long tail guys came in (saying), 'I'm a film school student, I want it for my wedding DVD or for my photography website for between $10 and $200,' and we're seeing many of these each day," he says. "Now, we're putting ourselves in a space that we didn't even think of, ahead of time."

Once those smaller licensors were onboard, larger licensing firms such as INgrooves (Madlib), Revolver Records (The Stone Roses) and DashGo (Cold War Kids) became interested. Without such a system, they wouldn't be able to reach the long tail of the music licensing market. "When I sit with a big company and they tell me, 'we don't need you to get us film studios and ads, we've got them," explained Ezer. "But they have no wedding videos, and no websites, or Flash intros."

Not everyone feels like paying for legally licensed music for their wedding video, of course, but in many cases, people appear more than happy to pay up if it means zero associated legal liability.

"You'd be surprised -- we had a schoolteacher license music for a presentation at his school for $85," said Ezer. "He's doing it in front of 400 people and he wants to be perfectly legal, he doesn't want the school to come to him [with questions]." Photographers are also likely to license music for their portfolio sites, says Ezer, because they themselves license their photos in a similar way. For $20-$30, they can spruce up their photo slideshows with legally licensed music for a year, allowing an indie musician to buy another week's worth of ramen noodles and maybe a couple of burritos.

In today's music economy, every bit counts.

See Also:

• 'Hockey Night In Canada' Is Over, Thanks to Licensing Spat
• Licensing Fees Force Pandora to Shut Down U.K. Music Service
• Muxtape To Relaunch in New Form After RIAA Backstab
• First Paris, Now This: Jackson Browne Sues John McCain
• Hagar Cool With McCain's 'Right Now' Appropriation

Apparently, a Scottish airline, Flyglobespan, a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Airline-threatens-to-sue-over.4559849.jp" target="_new"has threatened to sue an online betting site/a because it was taking bets on what airline would be the next to go out of business, and had odds on Flyglobespan. The site did stop taking bets, but says it was due to a lack of interest, rather than the threat of a lawsuit. However, it's not clear what law it would be breaking to offer such a bet. You can understand that the company is concerned that potential passengers might think the airline is at risk, but it's not clear that's enough to stop any such bets. br /br / a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081006/0058362462.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081006/0058362462.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081006/0058362462op=sharethis"Email This Story/a br / br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=e02821000929a8cbd17786d776002f53" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=e02821000929a8cbd17786d776002f53" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=adHam"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=adHam" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/413830695" height="1" width="1"/

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REYKJAVIK (AFP) - Iceland on Tuesday nationalised the second of its three largest banks, locked its currency into a fixed exchange system and sought a large loan from Russia to fend off potential national bankruptcy.

Sunava Dutta has detailed the enhancements made to IE 8 beta 2 for Ajax developers including XDR, XDM/postMessage, DOM Storage, offline detection, and more. A lot of great stuff!

XDomainRequest (XDR)

This is an object built from the ground up to make client-side cross-domain calls secure and easy. To reduce the chances of inadvertent cross domain access, this object requires an explicit acknowledgement for allowing cross domain calls from the client script and the server. Additionally, it reduces the need for sites having to resort to the dangerous practice of merge scripting from third parties directly into the mashup page. This practice is dangerous because it provides third parties full access to the DOM. All this comes with the added benefit of improved client-side performance and lower server maintenance costs thanks to the absence of a need for server farms for proxying.

During the Beta 1 timeframe there were many security based concerns raised for cross domain access of third party data using cross site XMLHttpRequest and the Access Control framework. Since Beta 1, we had the chance to work with other browsers and attendees at a W3C face-to-face meeting to improve the server-side experience and security of the W3C’s Access Control framework. As a result, we’ve updated XDR to be explicitly compliant with syntax and directives in the sections of Access Control for requesting simple public third-party data anonymously on the client! (Section 5.1.3 in the Access Control Process Model)

The updates to XDR from Beta 1 allow IE8 to request data from the domain’s server by sending an Origin header with the serialized value of the origin of the requestor. IE8 Beta 2 will only return the response if the server responds with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, instead of allowing the XDomainRequestAllowed: 1 header as we did in Beta 1. Other changes include support for relative paths in the open method, and restricting access to only HTTP and HTTPS destinations.

Cross-document Messaging (XDM)

Cross-document messaging is another powerful cross-domain feature that I’ve blogged about in the past. Rather than make a backend request to a remote Web service, this allows sites hosting third-party IFrame-based “gadgets” or components to communicate directly with the parent, without unsafely violating the same site origin policy. This has advantages including improved performance and reliability, as developers don’t have to resort to workarounds that behave differently between browsers and have unwanted side-effects. This technique also removes the need for embedding third-party script in your page, lessening the chance of potential information disclosure vulnerabilities like the disclosure of your sensitive data (such as information in your social network profile) to third parties without your consent.

Beta 2 updates here include moving the onmessage handler from the document object to the window object to better align with the updated HTML 5.0 draft.

window.attachEvent(”onmessage”, HandleMessage);

We also replaced e.URI with e.origin, which is serialized form of “scheme” + “host” + “non-default port”. This is far safer as the URI can carry potentially sensitive information from the origin site that is not needed by the recipient for the decision to grant or not grant access.

if (e.origin == ‘http://www.contoso.com’) 
        { 
               // process message text     
        }

Finally, the HTML 5.0 draft also mandates that the targetOrigin parameter for the postMessage method now be made a required parameter, as opposed to an optional one. This will make it difficult for developers to make errors by requiring an explicit acknowledgement of the target destination of the message by specifying the origin <URL> or wildcard <*>.

 frameOther.postMessage(”This is a message”, “http://example.com”);

DOM Storage

Today, web pages use the document.cookie property to store data on the local machine. Cookies are limited in capability by the fact that sites can only store 50 key/value pairs per domain. Furthermore, the cookie programming model is cumbersome and requires parsing the entire cookie string for data. While cookies are useful for marking transitions and changes on the client to the server as they are sent with the request headers in chunks of up to 4KB, IE8 brings better alternatives for scenarios involving persisting data on the client and distinctly maintaining sessions in different tabs. The W3C’s HTML 5 DOM Storage objects provide a much simpler global and session storage model for key/value pair string data. Sites can store data for the life of a tab or until the site or user clears the data.

Updates for Beta 2 include changing the name of the persistent globalStorage attribute to localStorage and the removal of the need to specify the domain when writing to the localStorage

// Store a key-value pair.
localStorage.setItem(”FirstName”,”Sunava”);

Finally, we also included improved support of the updated onstorage HTML 5.0 event returned when the storage is changed. We now return the URI when the local storage is changed, so that handlers for pages can know who carried out the latest transaction in the storage space in addition to providing the source to the window of the origin. Furthering the good news, the HTML 5.0 Working Group has incorporated the clear method, which we shipped in Beta 1, into the draft. This essentially allows for script to clear all items accessible in its storage space without having to iterate though the keys.

Connectivity Event

The navigator.onLine property and online/offline events now work on Windows XP as well as Windows Vista. The work to enable this was not trivial, as connection awareness in Windows XP is not quite as advanced as Windows Vista. That said, this will be extremely beneficial for developers, who we believe shouldn’t have to worry about OS differences. The value of connectivity events is particularly appealing when used in conjunction with the localstorage, where data can be cached in case of network loss!

XMLHttpRequest

Introducing the XDomainRequest object in IE8 hasn’t diverted our attentions from constantly tweaking and improving XMLHttpRequest, which will continue to be our flagship object for same-domain communications. Post-Beta 1 energies here have focused on a few bug fixes around reliability and working with the Web Apps Working Group to clarify and improve the draft specification, our compliance with it, and W3C public test cases. A timeout method introduced here in Beta 1 for the convenience of developers is currently being evaluated for adoption in the XMLHttpRequest spec.

// Sets timeout after open to two seconds.
xhr.timeout             = 2000;

ToStaticHTML, to JSON, and fromJSON

What do you do with the strings returned from third parties using XDomainRequest or Cross-document Messaging? In today’s world of increasing script injection and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks, having the option of passing these through a safe parser comes as a welcome relief. As detailed in Eric Lawrence’s post on Comprehensive Protection for IE8 Security, toStaticHTML provides a powerful way of sanitizing your strings by purging potentially executable content.

//Calling:
window.toStaticHTML(”This is some <b>HTML</b> with embedded script following… <script>alert(’bang!’);</script>!”);

//will return:
This is some <b>HTML</b> with embedded script following… !

In addition, IE8 Beta 2’s toJSON and fromJSON methods provide improved performance as opposed to non-native Javascript deserializers and serializers. Our implementation is based on the ECMAScript 3.1 proposal for native JSON-handling which uses Douglas Crockford’s json2.js API. In addition to the performance benefits of going native, the JSON parser provides a safe alternative to the eval() method, which has been a common and dangerous way to revive JSON objects, and could allow arbitrary script functions to execute.

Jason Rogenes turns packing packing material into glowing obelisks at Manuf®actured: The conspicuous transformation of everyday objects via BBG.

Artist Jason Rogenes first found his raw material while living in the commerce-driven, big-box store, strip mall environment of Los Angeles where polystyrene was inexpensive and easily procured. In this abundant byproduct of consumer culture, originally designed to protect packaged electronics and other products, he saw the potential for material transformation. For Manuf®actured, he has created a floating, glowing site-specific installation in the museum’s two story main gallery flanked by a wall construction of polystyrene and cardboard. a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/10/packing_material_looks_li.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/10/packing_material_looks_li.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" / Permalink/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/10/packing_material_looks_li.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890#comments" /Comments/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/arts/?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more articles in Arts/a | a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F10%2Fpacking_material_looks_li.htmltitle=Packing%20material%20looks%20like%20a%20giant%20alien%20spaceshipbodytext=%20Jason%20Rogenes%20turns%20packing%20packing%20material%20into%20glowing%20obelisks%20at%20Manuf%C2%AEactured%3A%20The%20conspicuous%20transformation%20of%20everyday%20objects%20via%20BBG.%20Artist%20Jason%20Rogenes%20first%20found%20his%20raw%20material%20while%20living%20in%20the%20commerce-driven%2C%20big-box%20store%2C%20strip%20mall%20envirotopic=tech_news" /Digg this!/a

For many, the concept of standards brings up images of starting from scratch, a competitive slow-down and endless development hours.

I imagine this is true for many in the online video industry – an industry where the battlefield is fierce and everyone is fervently trying to elbow ahead of their competitors.

However, this hesitation is unfounded and, in truth, short-sighted. Sure, there is huge growth and money to be made in web video now, but without a universal open standard for video platforms, it cannot reach its potential of becoming truly ubiquitous.

Aren’t We Giving Away the Cow for Free?

Developing standards begins as simply as defining what constitutes a video player and openly sharing that definition and source code with the public. Some might find the idea of allowing companies to develop their own custom players cannibalistic to the industry (why would they hire an online video platform provider if they can build it themselves?), but, in reality, the value of online video has little to do with the player.

“the value proposition for online video is not the video player”

Think of it this way – is The New York Times merely pieces of paper? No, it’s only the medium, with the true value coming from the entire mechanism of reporters, editors and printing presses behind it. Comparably, the value proposition for online video is not the video player – it’s the ingestion, syndication, indexing, editing and other parts of the massive infrastructure that supports broadband video.

Akamai and a handful of other companies have bonded to push for an open player standard with the Open Video Player initiative. Their open standard project, while absolutely the right idea, really offers no improvements over the current implied Adobe standard.

What they’re proposing will seemingly result in monolithic and inflexible players, and their espoused method will be mainly applicable to engineers rather than the more important Web developer audience.

Even with a standard in place, 99 percent of companies today (save for NBC and a few others) won’t have the resources to build and incorporate a video platform for their sites in house –and will find it much easier to turn to a video service provider.

Share and Share Alike?

Although important, the player is just one half of the current standardization issue. The way video is shared and syndicated is equally important. As it stands, most players are fed URLs from a content delivery network, but they’re confined to one network because of the lack of standards. There is no way to simply point a player at an RSS feed, yet it should be that easy and could feasibly be that easy.

Although Media RSS has shown some promise in this realm for search engine submissions, it cannot be used with the majority of video players, eliminating it as a potential format to pervasively deliver media content.

If the industry is ever going to reach its potential to enable every single public-facing web site with online video, then there needs to be an agreement among companies like Fliqz, Google, Limelight Networks and countless others that control the video experience to identify and define open standards that everyone supports. 2010 might not be too ambitious of a timeframe to meet this goal.

This was a guest post from Benjamin Wayne, the CEO of Flipz.com - a leader in full-service, custom, plug-and-play video solutions.

ROME (AFP) - The UN food agency cast doubt Tuesday on the potential of biofuels to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while warning that their development threatens food security.

Nuorsky have revealed that they will be demonstrating a a brainwave-controlled video game based on a new game concept being jointly developed with Square Enix at the Tokyo Game Show 2008, on October 9 and 10. The game concept will use the NeuroSky commercial headset, MindSet, which has a single electrode contacting the user's forehead while reading the player's brainwave information, or EEG data. "Although the main purpose of the demo is to test the results of our short development period, I hope it also unlocks new potentials in gaming." commented Ryutaro Ichimura, Producer at Square Enix.

The small island takes control of Landsbanki to offset a potential catastrophe.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/features/" rel="tag"Features/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/mmo/" rel="tag"MMO/a/pcentera href="http://www.massively.com"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/massively_interviews_425.jpg" //a/center a href="http://www.massively.com/"Joystiq's sister site /aa href="http://www.massively.com/"Massively.com/a has all the news you'll need about MMOs. Here's the best, brightest, and most interesting stuff from the last week, all in one convenient place for your MMO minute. table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="border: 0pt none ;" tbody tr td valign="top" align="right"a href="http://www.massively.com/2008/10/04/the-digital-continuum-rock-band-the-mmo/"img border="1" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/10/425vawerbmmocustom23q521_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" //a/td tdstronga href="http://www.massively.com/2008/10/04/the-digital-continuum-rock-band-the-mmo/"The Digital Continuum: Rock Band, the MMO/a/strongbr /emI've actually entertained the idea for a long time now, only to shove it aside as a crazy notion. But the thing kept popping back into the forefront of my mind so often that I couldn't discount it as happenstance. I've become enamored with the idea, because let's face it; a Rock Band MMO has the potential to ooze- no, to gush pure liquid awesome. /em/td /tr tr td valign="top" align="right"a href="http://www.massively.com/2008/10/01/massivelys-exclusive-mines-of-moria-dev-tour/"img border="1" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/09/afflictedorc-sms-0908-sm_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" //a/td tdstronga href="http://www.massively.com/2008/10/01/massivelys-exclusive-mines-of-moria-dev-tour/"Massively's exclusive Mines of Moria dev tour/a/strongbr /emEarlier last month, Massively was invited to get a hands-on look at Mines of Moria, the first-ever expansion for Lord of the Rings Online with Turbine's Adam Mersky and Moria Producer Mike Jablonn. During this special dev tour, we were treated to many of the features of the new environments, new creatures, certain landmarks and the Legendary Item system./em/td /tr tr td valign="top" align="right"a href="http://www.massively.com/2008/09/29/is-lotro-coming-to-the-console/"img border="1" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/09/runekeeper_screenshots_09-sms-0908-sm_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" //a/td tdstronga href="http://www.massively.com/2008/09/29/is-lotro-coming-to-the-console/"Is LotRO coming to the console?/a/strongbr /emAccording to a job posting on Turbine's website, they're looking to hire a Senior User Interface Engineer who "may be refactoring existing user interfaces or implementing completely new user interfaces for systems such as combat, skills, inventory, treasure, and social systems." Does this mean LotRO?/em/td /tr /tbody /tablepa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/massively-week-in-review/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emMassively week in Review/em/a/pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/massively-week-in-review/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1334364/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/massively-week-in-review/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/massively-week-in-review/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=lswFm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=lswFm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=qnXIm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=qnXIm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/413649905" height="1" width="1"/

ROME (AFP) - The UN food agency cast doubt Tuesday on the potential of biofuels to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while warning that their development threatens food security.

iJ Neurophysiol, Vol. 95, No. 5. (1 May 2006), pp. 2933-2946./ibr /br /Understanding the mechanisms by which sensory neurons encode and decode information remains an important goal in neuroscience. We quantified the performance of optimal linear and nonlinear encoding models in a well-characterized sensory system: the electric sense of weakly electric fish. We show that linear encoding models generally perform better under spatially localized stimulation than under spatially diffuse stimulation. Through pharmacological blockade of feedback input and spatial saturation of the receptive field center, we show that there is significantly less synaptic noise under spatially diffuse stimuli as compared with spatially localized stimuli. Modeling results suggest that pyramidal cells nonlinearly encode sensory information through shunting in their dendrites and clarify the influence of synaptic noise on the performance of linear encoding models. Finally, we used information theory to quantify the performance of linear decoders. While the optimal linear decoder for spatially localized stimuli could capture 60% of the information in pyramidal cell spike trains, the optimal linear decoder for spatially diffuse stimuli could only capture 40% of the information. These results show that nonlinear decoders are necessary to fully access information in pyramidal cell spike trains, and we discuss potential mechanisms by which higher-order neurons could decode this information. 10.1152/jn.01296.2005

Targeted Technology Solutions, Inc. today announced that it has added collaboration-oriented Groups to TheRetailTradeCenter.com, the industry's first social networking Web site connecting retailers and potential solution providers. Lee Kent, Chief Retail Authority at TTS, unveiled the powerful collaborative capabilities of The Retail Trade Center's new Groups at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Research Conference in Universal City, CA. (PRWeb Oct 7, 2008)

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Gyorgy Fekete discusses vital design and strategy elements that help to build brand recognition and potential. Although the title doesnt seem appropriate, the article itself contains some useful information and ideas.

nha khoa : As many as 100 representatives of tourism associations, travelling businesses and media from Japan and the Republic of Korea arrived in southern coastal Nha Trang on October 1 to study the city’s tourism potential and products.

pIf you are trying to predict a magpiersquo;s next move, just look into its eyes. A June 15 study in Brain Research Bulletin found that when these birds view a potential predator, they use either their left or right eye, depending on whether they intend to run away or move closer. These findings reveal clues about how the brain segregates information between its hemispheres./ppNeuroscientist Lesley Rogers and her colleagues at the University of New England in Australia observed wild Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) in the presence of a stuffed monitor lizard. Rogers found that before fleeing, birds would fixate on the ldquo;predatorrdquo; with their left eye--which sends nearly all its input to the right side of the brain. But if they were about to approach the lizard for further investigation, they would inspect it with their right eye, thus using the left hemisphere./p a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=specialized-brain-hemispheres[More]/a

It's no secret that the entertainment industry believes that it deserves to be paid (often multiple times) every time anyone accesses, views or listens to any of its content. That's resulted in some really bad policies that limit the potential for future growth, but also some ridiculous scenarios like the one described over at TorrentFreak, concerning the Motion Picture Licensing Company, who a href="http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-enforcers-illegally-demand-money-from-kindergartens-081005/" target="_new"illegally demanded 10 euros per child/a (later reduced to 3 euros) from Irish kindergartens, for the right to watch DVDs in class. It turns out that the whole thing was illegal, as it violated a copyright act in Ireland by not filing for a license to collect royalty revenue (it has since filed for the license). In the meantime, the folks who run these schools are a bit annoyed by the whole thing, noting that they rarely, if ever, show DVDs anyway and don't see why they should have to pay a fee per student. In fact, one educator noted that the only time they showed DVDs was when they would "pretend" to go to the cinema -- and even that would likely lead kids to eventually want to go see more movies. br /br / a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081006/0052502461.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081006/0052502461.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081006/0052502461op=sharethis"Email This Story/a br / br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=a27ffe388fd65bf34efba27f4a4661f4" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a27ffe388fd65bf34efba27f4a4661f4" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=eznGm"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=eznGm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/413363415" height="1" width="1"/

Multi-million dollar Canadian company has business opportunity for a home-based Marketer to start working immediately as an independent contractor. This is your chance to make some good SOLID extra income each month before the Christmas Season. br / • No experience is required as you will be fully trained. Must be able to dedicate 2 hours or more per day to your task.br / • Work part time from your home office or our office locationbr / • Hours are at your convenience in your spare time.br / • You must be mobile (car or bus), meaning you must be able to visit our office in Mississauga on occassion.br / • This is an active, challenging opportunity and not solely desk work. br / • Earning potential - $5,500 per month+. Great Bonus's. br / • Anyone over the age of 21 is welcome to inquire. We are looking for a mature, friendly, on the ball person, preferably one who is serious about making extra income and want to supplement their current employment. br / br / All details will be provided at an Orientation Session. Please email (no resumes please)with your Name and Telephone # or call 905-264-1497 to book an appointment. br /

I don’t agree with Michael Moore over much, but for all his many jarring viewpoints, I find his approach to copyright and digital media surprisingly modern and refreshing. As Stan noted last month, Michael Moore decided to release the somewhat stale movie Slacker Uprising for free via download on the Internet:

“This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans,” Moore said. “The only return any of us are hoping for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the