Find Out how Much I Would Be Willing To Pay For A Scouting For Girls Album…

…and many more interesting things about copyright, music, Gomez, corporate Records and OTHER STUFF by reading this interview with me here:

http://m3event.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/interview-the-indelicates/

Then come to the Monarch to heckle me in an informed manner:

https://www.facebook.com/events/212063198909829/

Oh and if you’re voting today, enjoy that, unless you’re in London – in which case do whatever it is you feel you have to through gritted teeth then go home and have a wash.

If you’re in Manchester, you might want to have a read of the Pirate Party’s election materials, which are here:
http://manchester.pirateparty.org.uk/

Yar har fiddle de dee,
XX
Simon

Copyright – Some Developments

You know on the back of our last two CDs where it says that we waive the right to prevent you copying the data to your computer? That’s because it has always been illegal for you to do so – if you owned an Indelicates CD and lots of others and had copied the music to an mp3 player, all of the music on your mp3 player except ours was illegal. Well, finally today Vince Cable announced that the law will be changed – you should now feel free to copy your asinine, meaningless landfill of a record collection to your iPod without fear of legal sanction. He also announced that a parody exception will be introduced into copyright law – this means that songs like this:

from our groundbreaking, lauded and previously legally dubious Book of Job: The Musical are now legally justifiable.

(You should, incidentally BUY THE MUSICAL NOW)

There’s also good news about dropping some of the stupid site blocking stuff that had been planned and a general shift away from the uber-stupidity of last year. Of course, the rubbish Digital Economy Act with its threats of disconnection etc are still in place – and we are still subject to an industry that happily encourages and profits from young people taking drugs until they die while demanding cash from young people who share things they like with their friends – but hey, you can’t have everything (for some stupid reason).

read more:
http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/vince-cable-talks-copyright/
http://www.consumerfocus.org.uk/files/2011/07/Consumer-Focus-Parody-briefing.pdf

Interview on ORGzine

My quest to render us permanently unsignable continues…

If we’d formed the band in 1985 instead of 2005 we might, maybe, possibly have been among the vanishing minority who were ever able to record their music well and distribute it on a large scale and made a bunch of cash too. Much more likely is that we’d have remained among the vast, impotent majority – frustrated and even poorer than we are. I choose now – and the future.

http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/features/2011/indelicates

Digital Economy Act – The Past and Present State of Things

You should go read this from the Open Rights Group. It matters.

http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/features/2011/spinners-and-scaremongers

Digital Economy Act (goodish) News

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/10/bt-talktalk-digital-economy-act

maybe less of a done deal than you might have feared/hoped – let’s all try and remember that this is still a big one (deal) nonetheless.