Soon you will be hearing from Pandora how they need Congress to change the way royalties are calculated so that they can pay much much less to songwriters and performers. For you civilians webcasting rates are “compulsory” rates. They are set by the government (crazy, right?). Further since they are compulsory royalties, artists can not “opt out” of a service like Pandora even if they think Pandora doesn’t pay them enough. The majority of songwriters have their rates set by the government, too, in the form of the ASCAP and BMI rate courts–a single judge gets to decide the fate of songwriters (technically not a “compulsory” but may as well be). This is already a government mandated subsidy from songwriters and artists to Silicon Valley. Pandora wants to make it even worse.
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[T]he smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
Formality is more than a dress code, of course. It infects how people talk, write, and interact. It eats through all the edges and the individuality, leaving only the square behind. In other words, it’s all about posture, not productivity.
If you want to keep the software and services around that you enjoy, do what you can to make their businesses successful enough that it’s more attractive to keep running them than to be hired by a big tech company.
David Lowery Might Be Right About Some Things, But He’s Wrong About Streaming, Money, and Artists | Evolver.fm
Vibram Boss: IP Enforcement Is A Waste Of Time; You’re Better Off Building A Relationship With Customers | Techdirt
I really like this:
Vibram offered vouchers to customers who had unwittingly bought fake Five Fingers, so that they could buy the real product at cost price.
The company also put up a page on its website alerting customers, enlisted the help of bloggers and asked fans of its Facebook page to get the word out.
Within a year, the deluge of complaints from customers who had bought fake products slowed to a trickle.
Steven Colbert talks to Jack White about stuff and it’s funny.
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Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business (by schavira)
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Patagonia At Front Of Line To Register As Calif. Benefit Corporation
Patagonia At Front Of Line To Register As Calif. Benefit Corporation
[A] Benefit Corporation has to act more like a person with a strong environmental and social conscience, and less like a corporation whose main interest is maximizing profit for shareholders.