sometimes new era's are born from a melange of the old... lawrence lessig says, "creativity is always built on the past", which i agree with, but i don't necessarily agree with the mash-up being the artform that liberates. that said, looking forward to the day when we can establish a database of public domain australian films and music, material that could be used for eduction, such as john hughe's defunct project that would have school kids use old news footage to help them understand the roots to our democracy, how it evolved, what it grew from and what it has evolved to...

we are the sum of many parts, whether political parts of synchro-spiritual parts that drift across this jewel of a planet suspended no where in space... can you hear me, far above the world...

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A listing of composers currently in the public domain and a dated listing when composers such as Kurt Weill's 3 Penny Opera will fall into the public domain.

http://www.logosfoundation.org/copyleft/public_domain_composers.html

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“…despite a long-standing commitment to community broadcasting, the Australian government has yet to allocate a channel for the sector within the digital spectrum. In not doing so it turns its back on the long-standing support community broadcasters have enjoyed in Australia.” Andrew Garton - Program Director of the screen resource centre, OPEN CHANNEL.

Australia, where technology plays the role of spoilsport

Author: --- (FN for APCNews)
Source: APCNews
Date: 07/06/2006
Location: DHAKA, Bangladesh

Technorati Tags: australia, communityradio, communitytv, digitalspectrum, openspectrum, openchannel

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