James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up – Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement
because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth
of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for
300 years.
Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research
on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it
was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok,
Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have
fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.
Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.
Stop what you’re doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet – before it’s too late.
I’ve just realized that the Prince motif in the 1991 B&B film (aka the melody heard when Belle looks into the Prince’s eyes post-transformation & when you see the second stain glass window in the prologue) is basically the rose/Beast motif (melody heard at the start of the prologue, when Belle sees the Prince’s portrait and when the Beast decides to spare Gaston’s life) only in a major key instead of minor. The sheer genius behind Menken’s original score continues to blow my mind.
Please explain the significance for us poor not-musicians?
Australian scientists have developed a pair of anti-shark wetsuits that make divers appear invisible by camouflaging their bodies in the sea and trick sharks into thinking surfers are poisonous. A team of researchers from the University of Western Australia joined forces with designers from Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS) to create the suits. The blue pattern of the Elude suit can’t be seen by the shark because the fish are colour blind. While the stripes on the Diverter suit mimic the colours of poisonous fish to warn the sharks off.
THIS is how you deal with shark attacks. Not by killing or hunting the sharks, but by protecting yourself when you go into the water. A+
Why have we only just now done this?
Holy fuck this is amazing. Y’all, please spread this around. Most shark attacks are ACCIDENTS. The only reason people are killed by great white is because they’re a huge fish slamming into you with steak knives in their mouths, meanwhile Galapagos sharks, one of the most aggressive sharks, are much smaller and have much smaller teeth.
It’s not the shark’s fault, and humans need to start taking precautions to help themselves stay safe, not vilify the sharks who are just looking for a meal.
While talking with the Hobbits, Tom Bombadil puts on the One Ring. For a moment, all of the Nazgul burst into merry song. It is never discussed among them again.
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