mixcloud

[psackroyd]

hi stuart, here's what i read on mixcloud's faq section which initially prompted this chain of thought...

Mixcloud is committed to supporting artists who appear in music Cloudcasts and has an objective to provide a superior legal alternative to file sharing. As such, Mixcloud is fully licensed by the PRS for Music, and all playback of copyrighted songs contained within the tracklists on the site are reported so that the correct licensing royalties can be attributed to the artists.

... that, and that i read somewhere else that they want it to be the 'you tube of radio', in which case it'd need a fair whack of peel on it.  i don't know about the logistics of it all, just seems a really user-friendly site, and although i'm sure dollar signs are the main incentive behind starting the site, there seem to be some good intentions behind it all too...  as far as the bbc issues, don't know where to start with that!  i've seen some radio 1 shows on there already but only in passing...

as for the tapes, does make it better that it's more of a gap filling job.  i can't promise when i'll get the chance to make a start on it but in the near future - first step i'll check the wiki for details of what you're missing and dig out what i've got, though if i can't complete those years for you i'll be surprised.

one last thing, i tried just replying to this message on my email but it returned it undelivered, the same as the first one i sent a couple of hours ago, and i've had to log in to yahoogroups to send - what's the right email to use to send group messages?  i checked my settings and they seem ok...

cheers
paul








--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Stuart" <stuartb@...> wrote:
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> Hi Paul, and thanks for delurking!
> 
> You'll see from the wiki that there are quite a few shows online from these years but also quite a few gaps in each year, sometimes lasting a month or two. So I'm sure that if you wished to share your work, there will be some great new stuff there, but by the same token you would not feel that to start the job you would be there forever, as it would be a case of gap-filling.
> 
> Mixcloud - looks like a great idea for current DJs choosing from an approved track list, kind of a variant on the Spotify model. But I really can't see this startup company having negotiated royalties with every possible past and present performer and their record companies, not even Last or Spotify have managed that yet. I can't see that airing an old JP show with a barely identified, obscure, or in some cases, unannounced track from the early 1980s would trigger an automatic royalty payment to the proper recipient.
> 
> Then there's the legality of rebroadcasting an old BBC radio show - especially if recording royalties are being examined on a track by track basis.....
> 
> It would be possible already to create Spotify playlists and indeed some Festive 50 playlists have been created, but there are big gaps due to the non-universality of royalty agreements. 
> 
> Stuart
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "psackroyd" <psackroyd@> wrote:
> >
> > hey, been lurking on here for a while - i have a couple of crates of
> > peel tapes but need a couple of days free at some point to get round
> > to seeing what i've got, though from memory probably near-complete
> > tapes for 1999, 2000 and 2001, plus a few others...  i'll get in touch
> > again when i've had a chance to get them in order, though til then,
> > mixcloud.  only discovered it at the weekend and it's awesome - have
> > you considered putting all the peel shows up there?  sorry if i'm
> > preaching to the converted, just struck me that it might be the
> > perfect place for them?  any thoughts?
> > cheers
> > paul
> > ps www.mixcloud.com/globalsoundtracks for tom ravenscroft shows -
> > again probably preaching to converted but they've certainly put a
> > smile on my face these past couple of days
> > 
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> > www.mixcloud.com/kamikaze
> > www.myspace.com/herecomesthekamikaze
> >
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