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Re: 0xc18360217d8f7ab5e7c516566761ea12ce7f9d72

robertDouglass — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:22:48 -0000

How can I have ENS show up in my Trust wallet?

Re: Try our Open Social 1.0 release now! Hurray!

robertDouglass — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 09:47:41 -0000

Congratulations!

Re: JE SUIS ENFIN DE RETOUR - Nikon Film Festival

robertDouglass — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 05:40:59 -0000

Nice use of the Open Goldberg Variations: http://www.opengoldbergvari...

Re: Meet Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner

robertDouglass — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:26:04 -0000

Thank you for this article. It may be worth pointing readers into the direction of trying to separate gender from sexuality.

Re: “Share this freely with others to promote the love of Bach.”

robertDouglass — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:23:42 -0000

Your appreciation of Kimiko's work means a great deal to the Open Goldberg and WTC team =)

Re: Teaching Encryption Soon to Be Illegal in Australia

robertDouglass — Sun, 24 May 2015 14:01:46 -0000

What utter nonsense. Have fun legislating yourselves into the stupid club, Australia. May as well ban Maths and Physics as well. I hear they're also a part of weapons building (among other things).

Re: Behind the Curtain: The Making of the DrupalCon Prenote

robertDouglass — Sat, 23 May 2015 07:02:08 -0000

The best Prenote video is here (3 camera angles, no geo blocking): http://www.dailymotion.com/...

Re: Highlights From DrupalCon Los Angeles

robertDouglass — Sat, 23 May 2015 06:59:54 -0000

Here's a better video of the Prenote; it's mixed and edited from 3 cameras, and isn't being blocked in non-US countries: http://www.dailymotion.com/...

Re: Chopin’s Preludes on a Pleyel

robertDouglass — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:09:52 -0000

Thanks for drawing attention to our Kickstarter project! With less than 2 days to go, we need all the help we can get =)

Re: 5 Things We Learned About Musical Genius & Jailbird Johann Sebastian Bach - by Robert Greenberg

robertDouglass — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:40:31 -0000

Here's Bach's "Jailbait" masterpiece, free to download, enjoy, and share: http://welltemperedclavier.org It's the Open Well-Tempered Clavier, recorded by Kimiko Ishizaka.

Re: Drupal vs. Joomla: An Engineer's Take

robertDouglass — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:49:02 -0000

Drupal Commerce is the modern ecommerce solution for Drupal. It's the successor to Ubercart. http://drupal.org/project/c...

Re: Creating a Drupal 8 Theme using Sass, Singularity and Breakpoint

robertDouglass — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:03:25 -0000

Wow, beautiful!

Re: Ten months at Commerce Guys

robertDouglass — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 04:06:50 -0000

It's been a great 10 months! But that was only the prelude; on to the opening act =)

Re: Inside the Road to Acquia's Possible IPO

robertDouglass — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:12:19 -0000

The lego contest wasn't run by Acquia, it was run by Dataflow. Nothing suspicious here, move along. And geesh, spreading misinformation about the lego guessing contest could really hamper the IPO, so please be careful!

Re: The Complete Works of Chopin, for Everybody, for Free

robertDouglass — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:11:16 -0000

You're right. This is not the model for every musician for every recording. But real good comes from it, and it is the right model for some people.

Re: The Complete Works of Chopin, for Everybody, for Free

robertDouglass — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:09:36 -0000

Correct. Open Goldberg has received exploitation royalties from services like Spotify and iTunes, and sells the CD on Amazon.com. This money could go to Ishizaka (although in that case they go towards the next, upcoming project - to record the Well-Tempered Clavier, starting in 2 weeks) - but in the end there is a real tradeoff that the artist has to consider.

In Ishizaka's case she was aware of the tradeoff and is happy with the results of putting her recording into the public domain (eg it is the reference recording on the Wikipedia article about the Goldberg Variations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Furthermore, as a result of the Open Goldberg Project, Ishizaka now gets invitations to perform at festivals like the Beethovenfest in Bonn, or the Arizona Bach Festival this coming January.

Re: The Complete Works of Chopin, for Everybody, for Free

robertDouglass — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:03:57 -0000

The artists have motivations in this as well. Sometimes it is worth trading potential exploitation profits (which are terribly small on recordings these days) for reach, and this is a brilliant way for those pianists to get a lot of listen time.

Re: The Complete Works of Chopin, for Everybody, for Free

robertDouglass — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:50:13 -0000

von Levi, of course you're right about the function of copyright. But this represents an inversion of the contract between the performers who create recordings and the public who pays for them. The performers are saying "guarantee that I have enough money to make this recording, and in return I waive my copyright". I ran a similar project last year called the Open Goldberg Variations - you can see the result of those here: http://www.opengoldbergvari...

Musopen's project is very cool because it will allow a raft of derivative art works (think 100s of YouTube videos) that use the music, thus growing the overall audience for Chopin's works. Very good for musicians trying to make a living going around performing these things.

Re: How IT Pros Can Use Pinterest for Career Growth

robertDouglass — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 12:33:36 -0000

Your article is a bunch of instructions without any reason why one should do these things, what the goals are, or how to measure success.

Re: Yourope

robertDouglass — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:19:45 -0000

The nameless pianist who played the Goldberg Variations is Kimiko Ishizaka, from Köln - and you can get the Open Goldberg Variations here: http://www.opengoldbergvari...

Re: Entertainment industry to Japanese ISPs: we'll hand you a secret list of copyrighted works, and you have to block them

robertDouglass — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:45:28 -0000

Unfortunately, these fingerprinting systems often make false positives. YouTube's Content ID has been very regularly falsely identifying uploads of the Open Goldberg Variations as copyrighted material: https://plus.google.com/u/0...
The ironic part of that, of course, is that the Open Goldberg Variations were created exactly to give people a version of the Goldberg Variations that has no copyright. The idiotic (or nefarious) rights holders get to review the claim, and sometimes (like in the link I provided), they insist that the Open Goldberg Variations is their copyright. So Japan's new law will succeed in blocking public domain uploads as well, not just legitimate copyrighted works.

Re: Kickstarter ist Vorbote eines massiven wirtschaftlichen Umbruchs

robertDouglass — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:01:28 -0000

Kickstarter has pumped over $38,000,000 into the music industry in the last 4 years as well: http://goo.gl/AcoCE

Re: Shut Up and Take My Money: Fans Should Hire Artists

robertDouglass — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:22:06 -0000

Thanks for covering the Open Goldberg Variations project, Andy. We've met with a lot of controversy and resistance. On the day that we were presenting our project at the Classical:NEXT conference in Munich the local TV (Bavarian Rundfunk TV-Bericht) was literally standing next to us broadcasting that "On the internet it's only legal if it costs money", and that not following this rule can land you 3-5 years in jail, and that anything that is free is already illegal. I'm not making this up.

http://freiekulturundmusik....

Re: http://blog.musescore.com/post/24394833729

robertDouglass — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:02:47 -0000

This is truly one of the best ways to experience Bach's Goldberg Variations. Well done!

Re: Open Goldberg Variations: free, open source recording and modern score of classical masterpiece

robertDouglass — Mon, 28 May 2012 09:36:29 -0000

I had to request the FLAC version be remade, it had a glitch in it. They'll be posted within the next days. And yes - I'm the one who will be uploading the torrents of them =) The goal here is to make the recording - also in lossless quality - available to everybody.