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Ten Things Dance Companies Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Talking About in ’10
Ten Things Dance Companies Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Talking About in ’10
2010 promises to be the beginning of a new age for the dance field, and great and wide reaching opportunities become available to even the newest of dance companies. But, once these doors open, it remains to be seen how many companies will have the infrastructure required to walk through them. Here are...
On Copyright Infringement
On Copyright Infringement
Periodically, we experience situations where people have uploaded clips to video sharing sites that TenduTV has under license. The more work we secure, the more we find unauthorized copies floating around on the web. Sometimes, the work has been uploaded by a friend, a sponsor, an affiliate or a donor...
What Did You Learn from the Facebook TOS Controversy?
What Did You Learn from the Facebook TOS Controversy?
I know what we learned. Absolutely nothing. But that’s because we read the Terms of Service wherever we have content, even simple promotional content. It’s why, prior to the change, that we had still photos on our Facebook page, but no video. We may be bringing the dance world full on into...
Apple wins the day: publishing rates frozen
After threatening to throw out the baby, the bathtub and the bathwater, while giving the mother a swift kick in the shins for good measure, Apple emerged victorious as the Copyright Royalty Board froze digital publishing rates at 9.1 cents per song. Music publishers had requested an increase to 15 cents...
Fun with Music Rights: 1 problem solved, 100,000 to go.
One of the more complicated challenges impacting the dance world (especially as it relates to making content available on TenduTV), is the need to properly acquire music rights. From a legal perspective, part of the challenge has been that in many situations, the music industry itself hasn’t figured...