have been responsible for some huge shifts in the advocacy landscape in Canada related to copyright, file sharing, DRM, and related issues in the past few months, and yesterday they moved the goalposts again with the creation of the Canadian Music Creators Coalition. Check out the names of CMCC members: it’s a who’s who of established and rising stars of the Canadian (and international) music scene including Sarah McLachlan, Dave Bidini, Andrew Cash, Sloan, and the Barenaked Ladies among many others. [via Michael Geist]
Nice start:
yesterday Hugh McGuire introduced his new project – Collectik – to the world. I haven’t looked at it in detail yet, but what I have seen looks really great. Collectik is “like mixtapes for podcasts” as they say in their tagline.
The buzz last week
was high about Neil Young’s upcoming protest album, and the most predictable nay-saying followed a pretty facile script: Neil Young is a drug-addled loser who clearly doesn’t know much about anything, blah blah blah. Today’s Video Dog clip with Young from some entertainment show clearly demonstrates that nothing could be further from the truth were Neil Young is concerned.
Michael Geist reports that
six important indie labels have formally withdrawn from their supposed Industry Association, the CRIA. As Geist’s title has it, this is like Removing the C from CRIA, as the remaining member companies are simply subsidiaries of global congolomerates.
Maciej Ceglowski:
Argentina On Two Steaks A Day. A friend who spent time there put it this way, “Meals consist of steak with a side of steak. Period.”
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