Update: here is the interview.
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The interview went well – host Shelagh Rogers was so kind and so enthusiastic, it was real fun. If only i could remind a word of what i said. Did anyone got a chance to record it?
The music played is from what i’v chosen :
The Upwards March by Bell Orchestre from the album Recording A Tape the Colour of the Light and The Plow by Champion from the album Chill’em All.
The following was also posted to my BLOG, and is a copy of a letter I sent in email to Sounds Like Canada.
I am excited to hear fellow creative Canadians talking with excitement about things such as “podcasting”. Sounds Like Canada interviewed Marie-Chantale Turgeon about how she is now able to very cheaply create and communicate some of her own work without needing the very expensive, and very centrally controlled, infrastructure from the past.
In economic terms, new communications technologies have allowed the marginal cost — the cost per additional unit — for the reproduction and distribution of creativity to approach zero. Using peer production techniques we are also able to greatly reduce the fixed costs of production as well.
This is a massive opportunity for most Canadians. I am a software and non-software literary author who has embraced newer business models which harness this economic reality. By using business models which charge a one-time fee for my work, allowing the marginal price to be the marginal cost of zero, I never have to worry about the social, economic, and legal costs of counting copies.
What is good for me is obviously a competitive threat to the established media, content and “software manufacturing” industries. They have launched a massive worldwide offensive against any competitor using alternative methods of production, distribution and funding of creativity and innovation.
I am curious what Marie-Chantale would say to the federal Government about Bill C-60 which seeks to protect the incumbent industries from competition from people like her and I. Where the Heritage Minister and other government officials have claimed that this act is about reducing copyright infringement, abusing the politically loaded and inaccurate term “theft”, this bill is really about protecting established businesses from much needed modernization.
Since the tools for creativity are being put into the hands of average Canadians, Copyright should be simplified so that we don’t need a team of lawyers to protect our rights. Unfortunately the government seems intent on making copyright more complex, more expensive, and to only benefit the largest companies and their lawyers.
Some unscrupulous large copyright holders, such as Sony-BMG, have decided that it is OK to install harmful software on our computers. This is the type of activity of criminals such as virus authors, and yet the Canadian government is offering legal protection for this type of “technical measure” when used by copyright holders. These types of “technical measures” have nothing to do with Copyright law, and are really attempts to enforce (often secret) contracts. Like any type of contract we need to both protect valid contracts as well as protect consumers from invalid and/or harmful contracts.
Sony-BMG is currently being sued in a class-action lawsuit by music fans whose computers were damaged by a series of recent “music” CDs containing mis-named “Copy Control” technology. The claim from Sony-BMG that they were only protecting their copyright is further made suspect by evidence suggesting that they were infringing the copyright of various software authors on the same CD.
Russell McOrmond
Webmaster for digital-copyright.ca
BLOG topic on “Digital Restrictions Management” (DRM)
Bill C-60 BLOG
yeah I loved the interview — I had never listened to your podcast before but I’ve downloaded it and will listen tonight. I thought is was perfect timing since I just read an article yesterday from Wired talking about how women are missing from the podcast scene — looks like they are there and shining!
ps) love Belle Orchestre also 😉
Congrajulations on your interview. I thought it went very well. I’ve been thinking about getting into Podcasting and was inspired to make the jump after listening to the program. Good musical choices. Cheers.
Hey Marie-Chantale:
My friend Wendy told me about your interview with Sheila so I went to check out the Sounds Like Canada website and found this blog. I loved your interview.
You are definitely a kin to us at radioindierock.com. Be sure to check out our shows. I would love to do a co-host here in Toronto if you ever come here. We could make some tea and
you could play some stuff from my collection for a show
(I did one last spring with my friend Claire who was a radio
host in Brighton, UK).
I love your show and the idea of it. Great to see fellow Canadians
doing interesting things with broadcasting and music. Keep it up I’ll be listening. Feel free to email me if you like. I’ve also set up an add for you to my myspace site so please add me. Also be sure to check out my blog as well: strangerthanparadise.blogspot.com
Remerciements,
Steven
félicitations for a great shoe tabarnac —
listen up, stand up!
That was totally coool :D! nice interview and nice songs!
Glad the mainstream is taking more notice.
Didn’t know you missed the Bell Orchestre show! There aren’t any ‘former’ AF members in the band, though 😉
You can’t be 70517 serious?!?