Published by Liz Berg 3 years, 1 month ago
Across the U.S. today, thousands of internet radio stations are observing a national Day of Silence to protest new webcasting rates set by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board. These new rates, which will go into effect on July 15 (and are retroactive to January 1, 2006), will drastically increase the royalties webcasters must pay to SoundExchange, an offshoot of the RIAA responsible for distributing this money to artists.
WFMU believes in compensating artists. We currently pay webcasting royalties to SoundExchange and will continue to do so, but we are protesting the new rate scheme for a number of reasons:
1. Under the new rates, non-commercial webcasters only get a break on the commercial royalty rate if they ...
Published by 365 3 years, 1 month ago
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Nights of Love in Lesbos - Part 1 (20:11)
Nights of Love in Lesbos - Part 2 (19:20)
Remember snooping through your parents' Anais Nin and Xaviera Hollander books to find your first vintage erotica? Well, this sounds nothing like those.
Described as "a frankly intimate description of a sensuous girl's lesbian desires" it's really just a verse from "Songs of Bilitis" by Pierre Louÿs. Although not a lesbian himself, the French poet from two centuries ago is regarded for his favorable depictions of women, especially his lesbiana.
The flaccid female vocal talent, credited only as "Ilona", narrates the Sapphic sounds with heavy breath and audible smile. A flute-y score plays throughout, accompanied lightly by piano and sometimes a tambourine shake at ...
Outright censorship is not the only challenge facing critical Russian journalists. Some dissident voices and investigative reporters are silenced, but others are just ignored. The Russian public has been largely apathetic, with little appetite for tenacious journalism. Reporters, editors, journalist advocates, former propagandists and current state supporters explain the stakes and costs of freedom of the press.
Vladimir Posner was an unofficial Soviet spokesperson during the Cold War. Heâs now a free-speech
proponent. Anastasia Izumskaya quit the Russia News Service after being told that a half of her stories would have to be "positive."
Igor Yakovenko is the head of the
Russian Union of Journalists, with more then 100,000 members throughout Russia. ...
le vignette di vauro
Mentre
il quotidiano israeliano Haaretz e un ministro di Olmert
chiedono allo stesso governo il rilascio di Marwun Barghuti,
l'unico degno erede di Arafat in grado forse di ricondurre
la popolazione alla sua storica unità identitaria,
Gaza è in grave crisi umanitaria,
grazie a Israele che ha stretto ancora di più
il filo spinato della più grande prigione a cielo aperto della storia.
E l'esercito di Tel Aviv
prosegue nei suoi attacchi terroristici dal cielo,
dall'altronde, deve pensare l'arguta mente di Olmert,
se
lo fa la NATO in Afghanistan chi me lo impedisce a me di uccidere quei cani di civili palestinesi rinchiusi ...
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“street view” is expanding our world or paving the way for Big Brother.
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subculture. New Republic editor Eve Fairbanks brings us news from the
front lines of informing.
Across the U.S. today, thousands of internet radio stations are observing a national Day of Silence to protest new webcasting rates set by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board. These new rates, which will go into effect on July 15 (and are retroactive to January 1, 2006), will drastically increase the royalties webcasters must pay to SoundExchange, an offshoot of the RIAA responsible for distributing this money to artists.
