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Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by eLobato »

janerik wrote: post #13

And again: "Unfortunately, this UMG-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights." Good to have a proxy around.

Honestly I don't get the deal with Germany forbidding access to so many youtube videos. I've been there on vacation a few times and it was nearly impossible to find some (legitimate uploaded) songs in youtube, even from the VEVO channel. Big thumbs down for GEMA.

Their policy (verbatim):

"Whoever wants to playback or perform music in public in Germany will become, as a rule by doing this, a customer of GEMA."

Translation: "We don't give a damn about you being the owner of your creations or if you want to use non-restrictive licenses (CC for instance), you'll give us money whether you like it or not"

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Post by Cushman »

stevestreza wrote: post #22
janerik wrote: post #13

And again: "Unfortunately, this UMG-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights." Good to have a proxy around.

I went through YouTube's copyright dispute process, and said it was a fair use derivative work. YouTube's response is apparently to ask the copyright owner if they feel it's fair use. Which, of course, they didn't. Ironically, it was LMFAO's label that had the problem, and yet LMFAO posted the song to their Facebook and Twitter profiles. C'est la vie.

Out of curiosity, what do you feel qualifies it as fair use? That's a fairly specific doctrine (in the US, at least).

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Post by ivank »

cheald wrote: post #27
sil3ntmac wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems excessive, perhaps just upgrade to a more progressive font-smoothing algorithm? ClearType is built for lo-res displays (it snaps pixels to a grid rather than smoothing), so as you'd expect it looks like utter crap on a nice monitor. I have heard good things about gditray: http://www.cobyx.com/software/gdi/

Have to design for the lowest common denominator. Just because you and I can install gditray or whatnot doesn't mean that most people will. Edit: The link even says that it doesn't work with Chrome, so it's still a non-starter.

Chrome should have DirectWrite rendering soon: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by Vivtek »

stevestreza wrote: post #29
kens wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very cool mashup. Can you give more than technical details of how you made it? Logic Pro and then what? Or is there a site you recommend to explain how to make mashups? I always assumed it was something mere mortals can't do.

I prefer Logic Pro because it's (to me) the most straightforward, but you can use Ableton or Reason or whatever; all the DAW (digital audio workstation) apps are basically the same. Of all the EDM I've tried to make - dubstep, drum/bass, house, trance, chillwave - mashups seem to be the easiest, because you start out with all the ingredients. Find some instrumental tracks and a few a capellas. You'll want them to hav…

my mashup suffers from this in a few places

No. Not to this unexposed ear. I detest bad mashups, but if there are audio flaws in this one, you've concealed them very well indeed. I'm floored.

This makes me want to get on with my own back-burner electronic music notions.

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Post by Vivtek »

trafficlight wrote: post #15
antninja wrote: post #10

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TypeKit (I don't know the name of the font). It looks fine on IE9. DRM'ed webfonts look like crap on all other browsers on Windows.

Yep. Chrome on Windows 7 looks awful.

The digits are especially confusing - the 4's render like European 1's.

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Post by weinzierl »

stevestreza wrote: post #22
janerik wrote: post #13

And again: "Unfortunately, this UMG-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights." Good to have a proxy around.

I went through YouTube's copyright dispute process, and said it was a fair use derivative work. YouTube's response is apparently to ask the copyright owner if they feel it's fair use. Which, of course, they didn't. Ironically, it was LMFAO's label that had the problem, and yet LMFAO posted the song to their Facebook and Twitter profiles. C'est la vie.

The original PSY Gangnam style video is blocked in Germany, so I don't think your dispute will have any effect. Can you make it available for download? I would really like to see (and hear) it.

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by prodigal_erik »

I'm one of those people who never quite figured out what Twitter is for, so it's surprising to realize that this probably wouldn't have risen to the original artists' attention via the channels we had before. And now I'm hoping Streza might see the crowd get into this at jwz's club some saturday.
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